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VR Portal Tech Demo Screenshots Give First Glimpse of Source 2 Engine
Valve has released the first screenshots of its new Source 2 game engine, taken from the VR Portal Tech Demo it screened at GDC2015. Joe Ludwig, a programmer at Valve, confirmed before the show that the Portal Tech Demo was powered by Source 2: @ValveTime Yes, the Aperture demo is…
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New NVIDIA GeForce GTX Titan X Photos Released
After the first reveal of NVIDIA’s forthcoming graphics card behemoth, the GeForce GTX Titan X, at Epic Games’ GDC event, a series of new photos have now been revealed. The Titan X is shown next to the GeForce GTX980, and while the chassis is similar, the comparison highlights the sleek…
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Intel Shows Off NUC NUC5i7RYH with Intel Iris Graphics 6100 at GDC
Intel has showcased its NUC NUC5i7RYH – the first NUC model to feature an Intel Core i7 processor – at the Game Developer Conference (GDC) in San Francisco. The system sports an Intel Core i7-5557U CPU, a 28w TDP processor with Iris Graphics 6100, making the system 4K-ready and able…
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Microsoft Releases Xbox One SDK to App Developers
Microsoft has announced that it is opening the software development kit (SDK) for the Xbox One to app developers, in an effort to unify with the upcoming Windows 10 operating system. Phil Spencer, Head of Xbox, revealed the news at GDC 2015 in San Francisco on Wednesday, telling the audience…
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See Alien Isolation’s First Incarnation as a Third-Person Sneak-em-Up
Creative Assembly, developer of last year’s Alien Isolation, held a post-mortem of the game at GDC, during which Creative Lead Alistair Hope revealed that for a time during the development process the game adopted a third-person perspective, even showing test footage to prove it. Hope discussed his team’s approach to…
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Intel Broadwell CPUs Due This Summer
Intel has announced that its line of overclocker-friendly Broadwell CPUs is due for release mid-2015. The news, leaked in the form of an Intel roadmap (below) back in January, was confirmed at GDC 2015 in San Francisco. The Broadwell chips will feature Iris Pro graphics, boast an impressively low TDP…
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Source 2: Valve’s First New Game Engine in 11 Years!
Valve has unveiled its new game engine at GDC 2015, its first for 11 years. Source 2 is the successor to the original Source engine, released in 2004 with the launch of first-person shooter Counter-Strike: Source (above). Jay Stelly, Software Developer at Valve, said in a press release that “with…
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SimCity Developers Maxis Closed Down by EA
Game developer Maxis, creator of “successful” franchises The Sims and SimCity, is being consolidated by its parent company, Electronic Arts. Though the Maxis label will still be used on its existing series as a brand name, the studio itself has been dissolved. The news was announced during the Game Developers…
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