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.
Yesterday was a rather strange day for driver releases from NVIDIA with the release of two sets of Vista Forceware beta drivers, versions 162.22 and 163.11.
With the fire in Damage Labs extinguished and good time spent with the boards, The Tech Report have published their analysis on Radeon HD 2400 and Radeon HD 2600.
Sony has announced that effective immediately, the price of the 60GB
Playstation 3 has dropped to $499 in the United States; Canada has
received a drop as well, taking the system to $549 in that country.
Though officially denied by Sony just days ago, the cat was let out of…
It's been a good while since Beyond3D last tried its hand at graphics AIB analysis, so to shake off the cobwebs and get our collective asses back in the saddle, we pestered Galaxy for one of their customised GeForce 8600 boards when G84 launched. Galaxy are famous for…
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 to take a…
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…
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.
We're doing some server and tools work here today, which include DNS updates to the domain. Access to the site and forums might be a little wonky while that happens, so bear with us while the changes propagate and everything settles down.
AMD has issued a press release announcing that Dave Orton, former CEO of ATI, is leaving the company as one of its executive VPs at the end of this month.
Dean Takahashi, journalist and author of “Opening the Xbox†and “The Xbox 360 Uncloaked,†reveals in his blog that Microsoft is preparing to move the chips powering its Xbox 360 console to a 65nm…
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…
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