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Xbox architect on ray tracing: 'developers still want to use traditional rendering techniques without a performance penalty'
By Dave James published
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 published
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 published
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 published
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 published

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.

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'.

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.
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