Sony and Microsoft have formed the HDR Gaming Interest Group (HGiG) and have invited TV game developers, hardware manufacturers, and others to participate in an effort to improve the HDR gaming experience. The proposed initiatives will also change how a game console and TV interoperate, and could be extended to PC gaming, and maybe even mobile devices. The group entered … Read more
A graphics processing unit (GPU) with the power and ability to present gamers with gorgeously rendered graphics and physics effects at high frame rates is a valued asset for a gamer. Increasingly AI is also going to become part of the equation. As better games evolve, the demand for more powerful graphics processors will continue to go up, and there … Read more
Taking its place alongside the competition: The new console from Zhongshan Subor was exhibited at the China Joy gamer show. Photos from AnandTech show the new console displayed alongside the PS4. (Source: AMD) AMD’s latest semi-custom design was announced at China Joy in Shanghai when Chinese hardware manufacturer Zhongshan Subor unveiled a new console based on a new AMD processor. … Read more
Elon Musk teases Easter eggs in Tesla update
AMD reported a record quarter for calendar Q2 2018, revenues and operating income were up as well as its graphics and compute groups revenue and profits. ”We had an outstanding second quarter with strong revenue growth, margin expansion and our highest quarterly net income in seven years.” – Lisa Su Every metric was up including the company’s gross margin which … Read more
Twelve years ago, some game developers at EA DICE not being able to find an engine that would do all things they wanted to, decided they would just have to develop their own engine, they called it Frostbite. Two years later they brought it out inside Battlefield: Bad Company, one of the first and most successful cross platform games ever. … Read more
The same kind of people who collect vinyl records, postage stamps, old train sets, or automobiles also want the great memories of the past in form of gaming. The open source low cost Arduboy Several companies, mostly startups, have developed clever handheld machines. Most of them have failed like the Reto Computer Limited company discussed elsewhere in this issue. Some … Read more
In March 2016, we wrote about the Retro Computer’s Sinclair ZX Spectrum handheld game machine—The Vega+. If you had any interest or involvement with computers in the eighties and nineties, chances are you heard of, and probably owned, a device from Sinclair. The Cambridge-based Clive Sinclair and his many re-named companies developed famous low-cost, low-power but amazingly useful devices for … Read more
$3.2 billion in sales, $1.24 billion profit, up 11% from last quarter Nvidia reported another record of revenue for the first quarter ended May 1, 2018, of $3.21 billion, up 66% from $1.9 billion a year earlier, and up 10% from $2.9 billion in the previous quarter, with growth across most of its platforms. Revenues were up in all segments. … Read more
New study commissioned by Alienware details gamer habits, attitudes, and understanding of today’s gaming community Alienware commissioned a study of gamers and it revealed some changes to long held beliefs about the community. New Dell study reports gaming community is growing larger than ever due to diversification and inclusiveness, resulting in a gaming market that exceeded $30 billion in 2016 … Read more
Sony Profits for Quarter Almost 347% Up The Sony profit forecast for the year to March 2018, has rebounded. The giant electronics and media company announced its expectations to realize record annual profits, and attributes the boost to the popularity of the PlayStation 4 gaming console. Sony has forecast that its operating profit for the year to March 2018 will … Read more
The Machine Learning for Games panel (GDC, 21st March), hosted by Imagination Technologies and moderated by our very own Dr. Peddie, gave us a pretty good sense of where we are on some parts of that topic, as well as an indication that we need to be very careful to define terms. Panel mambers represented mobile, desktop, and console gaming. … Read more
