GDC 15: Valve’s GDC VR “Aperture Science” Demo
At the recent Game Developer Conference and Mobile World Congress events, Valve had a demo for HTC's Vive VR system that was based in the Portal universe. The headset is combined with…
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Podcast #340 – News from GDC 2015, FreeSync Release Date, Vulkan and Mantle, and more!
PC Perspective Podcast #340 - 03/12/2015 Join us this week as we wrap up news from GDC 2015, FreeSync Release Date, Vulkan and Mantle, and more! You can subscribe to…
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GDC 15: Imagination Technologies Shows Vulkan Driver
Possibly the most important feature of upcoming graphics APIs, albeit the least interesting for enthusiasts, is how much easier driver development will become. So many decisions and tasks that once laid on…
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Maybe GDC 15? Third-Party Unreal Engine 4 Forest Demo
I am not quite sure if the Game Developers Conference led to this video being released, or if it was just a coincidence. This is the sole work of Alexander Dracott, a…
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GDC 15: Microsoft Announces Wireless Xbox Dongle for PC. Controller Refresh Rumored for E3?
During his keynote speech, Phil Spencer of Microsoft announced a wireless adapter for PC. It can apparently be used to connect any wireless Xbox One peripheral on Windows 10. If...
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GDC 15: Valve’s $49.99 Steam Controller Coming In November
Valve has given the elusive (vaporous? heh, I'll leave the good puns to Scott) Steam Controller a release date and several refinements to the design. Slated for a November 2015 launch, the…
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GDC 15: Maingear Launches Customizable Drift Steam Machine
Maingear is joining the Steam Machine fray at the Games Developers Conference with its announcement of the upcoming Drift Steam Machine. The Drift is a configurable small form factor gaming PC that…
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GDC 15: Source 2 Is Free But Must Be Available on Steam
At the Game Developers Conference, Valve has formally announced the Source 2 engine and that it would be free for content developers. At the same time, they committed to releasing a…
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GDC 15: Upcoming Flagship AMD Radeon R9 GPU Powering VR Demo
Don't get too excited about this news, but AMD tells me that its next flagship Radeon R9 graphics card is up and running at GDC, powering an Oculus-based Epic "Showdown" demo.
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GDC 15: New Syber Steam Machines Coming This Fall From CyberPowerPC
Syber, a new division of CyberPowerPC, announced plans to launch a slew of Steam OS-powered living room PCs this fall. There are six Steam Machines planned in all, with prototypes being…
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GDC 15: Intel and Raptr Partner for PC Gaming Optimization Software
One of NVIDIA's biggest achievements in the past two years has been the creation and improvement of GeForce Experience. The program started with one goal: to help PC gamers optimize game settings…
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GDC 15: Intel Demos Socketed, LGA1150 Broadwell CPU with Iris Pro Graphics
Consumer have been asking for it since the first time Intel announced it, but Iris Pro graphics is finally finding its way to the desktop, socketed market. Shown powering one of Dell's…
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GDC 15: Intel shows 3DMark API Overhead Test at Work
It's probably not a surprise to most that Futuremark is working on a new version of 3DMark around the release of DirectX 12. What might be new for you is that this…
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GDC 15: PhysX Is Now Shared Source to UE4 Developers
NVIDIA and Epic Games have just announced that Unreal Engine 4 developers can view and modify the source of PhysX. This also includes the source for APEX, which is NVIDIA's...
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GDC 15: NVIDIA Shows TITAN X at Epic Games Keynote
For those of you worried that GDC would sneak by without any new information for NVIDIA's GeForce fans, Jen-Hsun Huang surprised everyone by showing up at the Epic Games' keynote with Tim…
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GDC 15: ZOTAC Announces the SN970 Steam Machine – Powered by a GTX 970M and Intel Skylake CPU
Favor a steamier TV gaming experience? ZOTAC has announced a new Steam Machine on the eve of Valve’s presentation at GDC on Wednesday. The SN970 presumably gets its name from the GTX…
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NVIDIA SHIELD Set-top Powered by Tegra X1 Specs and Impressions
NVIDIA is filling out the family of the SHIELD brand today with the announcement of SHIELD, a set-top box powered by the Tegra X1 processor. SHIELD will...
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GDC 15: Native versions of Doom 3, Crysis 3 running on Android, Tegra X1
Impressively, NVIDIA just showed the new SHIELD powered by Tegra X1 running a version of both Doom 3 and Crysis 3 running natively on Android! The games were running at impressive quality…
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