Xbox architect on ray tracing: 'developers still want to use traditional rendering techniques without a performance penalty' By Dave James News The Xbox Series X still has dedicated ray tracing hardware anyways...
How DirectX defined PC gaming... with help from a shotgun-toting Bill Gates By Samuel Willetts Origin story 25 years ago, Windows began to do what DOS didn’t and changed the face of videogame development.
What Microsoft's DirectX Raytracing means for gaming By Jarred Walton Holy Grail Physically based graphics rendering could simplify and improve the way games look.
DirectX co-creator's daughter slams his "toxic waste trash fire" approach to development By Andy Chalk NEWS Amilia St. John pulled no punches in a response to her father's controversial column about "crunch".
Dark Souls 2 modded: Durante's GeDoSaTo enables downsampling, texture modding By Peter "Durante" Thoman
Microsoft reveals DirectX 12, a "thinner" graphics API with 50% better CPU utilization By Emanuel Maiberg DirectX 12 is a “thinner,” lower level API, with less abstraction between software and hardware.
Thief's Mantle update incoming on March 18th By Dave James AMD have teamed up with Eidos and are set to release a new update to the latest Thief game, giving it some Mantle lovin'.
The API wars continue: Valve launches free OpenGL translator By Dave James Valve have freely released a software layer, ToGL, which will translate Direct3D calls to OpenGL.
DirectX 12 is incoming, is this a return to the API wars? By Dave James Now it looks they are going to be announcing a whole new iteration of the Microsoft API and not just an update.
AMD's Mantle API arrives in new beta driver, free Star Swarm benchmark released By Dave James It’s finally happened. AMD have launched their new graphics API, Mantle, to the public and you can pick it up right now in the Catalyst 14.1 beta driver update.
Khronos releases OpenGL 4.3 By Adam Oxford As if to reinforce all the recent talk that there may be another way for PC gaming, open source steering group Khronos has announced the latest update to OpenGL.
