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Doom playing on Windows

How DirectX defined PC gaming... with help from a shotgun-toting Bill Gates

By Samuel Willetts published

Origin story 25 years ago, Windows began to do what DOS didn’t and changed the face of videogame development.

Origin story
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What Microsoft's DirectX Raytracing means for gaming

By Jarred Walton published

Holy Grail Physically based graphics rendering could simplify and improve the way games look.

Holy Grail
Amilia St. John

DirectX co-creator's daughter slams his "toxic waste trash fire" approach to development

By Andy Chalk published

NEWS Amilia St. John pulled no punches in a response to her father's controversial column about "crunch".

NEWS
darksouls2-gabenshield

Dark Souls 2 modded: Durante's GeDoSaTo enables downsampling, texture modding

By Peter "Durante" Thoman published

Dark Souls
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Microsoft reveals DirectX 12, a "thinner" graphics API with 50% better CPU utilization

By Emanuel Maiberg published

DirectX 12 is a “thinner,” lower level API, with less abstraction between software and hardware.

Processors
Thief

Thief's Mantle update incoming on March 18th

By Dave James published

AMD have teamed up with Eidos and are set to release a new update to the latest Thief game, giving it some Mantle lovin'.

Adventure
Titanfall Source

The API wars continue: Valve launches free OpenGL translator

By Dave James published

Valve have freely released a software layer, ToGL, which will translate Direct3D calls to OpenGL.

Linux
DX12

DirectX 12 is incoming, is this a return to the API wars?

By Dave James published

Now it looks they are going to be announcing a whole new iteration of the Microsoft API and not just an update.

Software
DX11

Is Microsoft going Mantle?

By Dave James published

 Is Microsoft’s DirectX API going a lot closer to the metal?

Software
Star Swarm

AMD's Mantle API arrives in new beta driver, free Star Swarm benchmark released

By Dave James published

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.

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