Beyond3D Featured ContentIt's Dead Jim - a debate about the future of the graphics API
Love them or hate them, standardised IHV agnostic(-ish) graphics APIs have changed the landscape in a mostly positive way. Yet some bear them ill will. We set out for the truth about their future fate, hoping that we can handle it.
During an update of its network content, Sony made available a new firmware version for its console. A new video format playback support was added, as well as the backward compatibility functions of the console were updated for some games.
Today sees the official product launch of graphics boards based around RV610 and RV630, AMD filling out their D3D10 stack with the rest of the promised SKUs talked about when HD 2900 XT first appeared. We've spent a little time with HD 2600 XT and HD 2400 XT to see…
In a press release earlier today Nintendo announced the creation of a new Wii Shop Channel, Wii Ware, aimed at the distribution of downloadable video game content in exchange for Wii Points, Nintendo’s virtual currency.
Intel, which is looking into entering back the middle-to-high-end GPU market in a form or another, would probably have to pass the second gear with its driver development schedules if it wants it desktop endeavour to take off since sources close to motherboard AIBs report, via DigiTimes, that the semiconductor…
Reuters reports that Nintendo Company Limited, in the wake of the worldwide success of the Wii and DS, briefly passed Sony Corp. in market capitalisation and thus became the 10th most valuable company on the Tokyo Stock Exchange this Monday.
According to sources close to motherboard makers, reports DigiTimes, come September, AMD plans to withdraw its Athlon line of processors from its single core offerrings and will propose new Sempron models for the entry level single core market.
The Nihon Keizai Shinbun is reporting both in its online and print versions that various Japanese development houses are reallocating their resources from Sony platforms to competing Nintendo consoles.
Shacknews was able to confirm with Sony itself earlier rumours on PSP Updates regarding a MHz speed bump for the PlayStation Portable CPU.
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Associated Press reports what Howard Stringer, chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Sony, said to his shareholders at the annual meeting. During his speech, Stringer made clear that his ambition for the company has now shifted from “recovery to profitable growth."
Oddly enough for a technology with a moniker including the word turbo in it, Intel’s Robson (Turbo Memory) technology is expected to bee delayed for a quarter or two, according to DigiTimes.
According to an official letter NVIDIA sent to its OEM partners, the Santa Clara GPU maker plans to release a new variant of its SLI technology meant to leverage the presence of a NVIDIA IGP in a PC. DigiTimes translates the claims made by some OEM to HKEPC, which intercepted this letter (which was…
Microsoft wants gamers running its new OS as soon as possible. One of the incentive MS pushed to seduce the gaming crowd, other than bringing its fee-based Live online community platform to Vista, was to propose DirectX 10-only, and thus Vista-only, titles. Without any DX10 title around, MS opted for…
AMD has released version 7.6 of its Catalyst driver suite, bringing some performance and stability improvements to HD 2900 cards.
In a press release issued yesterday, middleware provider Fonix Speech, Inc announced the availability of its voice recognition API to the Wii platform. The Wii joins the PC, PlayStation 2, PlayStation 3, Xbox, Xbox 360 platforms as potential hosts for this middleware tool.
NVIDIA has released version 1.0 of its CUDA programming framework, with a number of new features including asynchronous kernel calls and 64-bit Linux support.
The Hollywood Reporter published an article on future video gaming industry growth based on data collected in the annual Global Entertainment and Media Outlook from the market advisory company PricewaterhouseCoopers. At first sight, as the press release shows, everything is looking fine on the video…
Information Week reports that during a conference at their headquarters, Intel spoke to analysts and reporters about their future energy-efficient products, including Larrabee and wireless solutions. Justin Rattner, Intel's CTO, also noted that Larrabee will be their "first tera-scale processor" and…
Valve issued a press release yesterday to announce a major update to its famous digital content delivery system, Steam. Expected to be available by early July, this update is said to be the largest the platform ever had since its commercial inception in 2004.
Bloomberg interviewed Tsujimoto Kenzo, CEO of Capcom, on his company's future outlook on network based and distributed games.