Unity 5.6 Released with Vulkan Support
If you are a perpetual license holder for Unity 5.x, then your last free update has just arrived. Unity 5.6 brings Vulkan for Windows, Linux, and Android. I just installed the new…
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Author: Scott Michaud
Mad Catz Files for Chapter 7 Bankruptcy
Back in September, we reported on the purchase of Saitek, from Mad Catz to Logitech, for $13 million USD in cash. Unfortunately, we now need to report that Mad...
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Windows 10 Creators Update Accessible on April 5th
TL;DR: Windows Update will begin pushing the Creators Update on April 11th Early adopters can, this time, use a tool to force the update as early...
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Today Is Palmer Luckey’s Last Day at Facebook / Oculus
Almost exactly two months after ZeniMax won a $500 million USD judgement against Oculus, subject to appeal, of course, co-founder Palmer Luckey will leave the company. As expected, Facebook...
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Early Opinions about Android O Dev Preview Around the Net
A couple of sites have downloaded the upcoming Android preview and walked through the new features that they found. Google, themselves, published a “what’s changed” video (embed below) to their...
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Tencent Purchases 5% of Tesla Motors
Five percent of Tesla Motors has just been purchased by Tencent Holdings Limited. For our audience, this could be interesting in two ways. First, Tesla Motors is currently home to...
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Dubai Future Accelerator Program Backs zSpace
A few weeks ago, we posted about an education company that joined the Khronos Group’s OpenXR Working Group for VR and AR APIs. As I mentioned at the...
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Futuremark Adds Vulkan, Removes Mantle from 3DMark
The latest update to 3DMark adds Vulkan support to its API Overhead test, which attempts to render as many simple objects as possible while keeping above 30...
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Blizzard Announces StarCraft Remastered and a Patch
On the night of the GSL Season 1 finals, and the week of StarCraft’s 19th birthday, Blizzard made a couple of announcements associated with the game. First, the game will receive a…
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Lexar Announces Durable JumpDrives with USB 3.1
A new line of USB flash drives has been announced by Lexar, which focuses on both durability and USB 3.1 support (compatible with USB 2.0 and USB 3.0). From the technical…
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OS Limitations of Vulkan Multi-GPU Support
Update (March 22nd @ 3:50pm EDT): And the Khronos Group has just responded to my follow-up questions. LDA has existed since Windows Vista, at the time for assisting with SLI and Crossfire…
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Mass Production for the Wooting One Analog Keyboard
About nine months ago, we reported on the Wooting One Analog Keyboard. At the time, they were expecting to ship the keyboard in November, but that has apparently slipped. Of...
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