Beyond3D Featured ContentDiving into Anti-Aliasing
All your questions about the great nemesis of graphics, and some of its cures, answered in one fell swoop. Would you kindly jump right in?
At the Develop Conference and Expo this year, AMD are holding a free tech day for games developers, in association with Microsoft, to discuss game development on the PC using Windows XP and Windows Vista.
Sony Pictures Home Entertainment has been quoted as stating that European Blu-ray sales have increased over 1000% since the launch of the Playstation 3 this past March, with over 180,000 Sony Pictures BD films purchased to date in the territory.
According to GameDaily, BIZ Sony is going to drop the price of the PlayStation 3 by $100 next week, bringing it to $499 coming next week.
Always near Taiwanese AIB partners’ most talkative employees, DigiTimes are reporting on upcoming notebook chipset offerings from AMD. The entry level M740G chipset is set for a Q3 2007 release, while the middle and high-end parts, dubbed M780G and M780T respectively, are expected to launch early next year in Q1…
Today Nintendo unveiled a camera for its handheld console, Nintendo DS
Words on the street of Taipei has it that optical drive OEM Lite-On IT expects to increase its shipments of DVD-ROM drives for the Xbox 360 at the eve of anticipated launch of the third Halo game, Microsoft’s biggest gaming franchise.
In an interview with Reuters, Masanao Maeda, corporate director of the
Sega Corp., voiced concerns over current pricing strategy of Sony’s
next generation console, PlayStation 3
Last year Microsoft used its Xbox Live Marketplace platform to bring demos and videos that were shown at E3 and other game events directly to gamers’ hard drives. This operation helped publicise many of the games displayed at these shows, as much as it was well received by Xbox 360…
AMD’s new front row processor line, Phenom, was expected to start
shipping by Q4 2007. According to DigiTmes, several motherboard makers
are now looking for a Q1 2008 release for the new processors after AMD
informed them of a delay in the production of the Phenom processors.
When we initially published on RV610 and RV630 the other day, we had a section outlining UVD performance. A section which wasn't quite right for a number of reasons, and didn't portray the real performance. Doh. We've since gone back and retested following a fix, and the results are now…
Microsoft today made the surprise announcement that they will be extending all XBox 360 warranties to three years with regard to their application towards the "red ring of death" issue (other hardware issues will remain addressed via current 1-year coverage). In supporting this move, MS is expecting…
An article in the Wall Street Journal this past Tuesday shone a light upon the ongoing investigation by the European Union's antitrust regulators into the business practices of both the Blu-ray Disc Association and the HD DVD Promotion Group.
Citing an analyst from the French financial group BNP Paribas, Economic Daily News (via Digitimes) is reporting that the major semiconductor foundry TSMC will see its shipments grow 30% in the third quarter of the year. This one third increase is explained by the analyst to be a result of a strong demand…
It being summer blockbuster season, when much-loved golden oldies make their reprise on the stage, Beyond3D offers the return of the following for your delectation. . . .
ZDNet's Technical Director, George Ou, has called the latest round of pre-release Barcelona performance data by AMD, blatantly deceptive, cherry-picked and simply wrong.
GarageGames have struck a deal with Microsoft to provide their XNA-based engine and builder software free to XNA Creators Club Premium members.
Mark Osborne, Editor-in-Chief of the quite specialised Semiconductor Fabtech, ponders whether the latest information heard from the wafer maker Soitec is not a confirmation that AMD had to postpone the production of its new Opteron processors line, codenamed “Barcelona.â€
Reuters reports today on the impressive performance of the Wii, in Japan, when compared to competitors’ offerings sale numbers. According to Enterbrain, a magazine publisher, the Nintendo Wii out sold its closest new generation rival, Sony’s PlayStation 3, 6-to-1.
AMD updated yesterday its schedule on its new quad-core Opteron, code-named “Barcelona,†availability. AMD’s new quad-core X86 is expected to ship in August this year, while OEM systems, powered by a “Barcelona†CPU, will arrive in September this same year.
Toshiba, primary backer of the HD DVD high-definition optical format, has announced that in September they will be bringing native output support for 24p (1080p@24fps) to several models in their range of HD DVD players via firmware update. A feature long desired by videophiles and fans of the format,…