Gaming

Three new Alienware monitors

Alienware has always been a style leader. The company epitomized that with the revolutionary Area 51 chassis. There’s not much you can do with a monitor design-wise. A big flat panel on a stand is pretty hard to make sexy. Nonetheless, the company has carried through with its sense of design to create monitors with distinctive style and with features … Read more

Google doubles down on Stadia; expands its catalog

It’s a big season for gaming news. As it turns out, pandemic season is always a big season for gaming news. Google, not always the most communicative of companies, has made an impressive effort to clarify the options for its Stadia gaming platform and along the way is in the process of relaunching Google Chrome. Stadia has emerged as a … Read more

Epic’s Unreal Engine is almost…

(Source: Epic)   I have been trying to write about Epic’s new Unreal Engine 5 since they announced it in May. Every time I do, I am awestruck by the visuals, and mind-boggled trying to figure out how they did it. It is making a bazillion zillion quadrillion polygons fit in a 4k screen. The company said at the time … Read more

A new GPU architecture proposed

The traditional 3D graphics pipeline is now 60 years old—is it time to reimagine how 3D graphics should be processed and displayed? In pursuit of greater display acuity, pixel densities are increasing in spatial resolution and color depth. In pursuit of greater realism, triangles, the basis for 3D models, are increasing in density and shrinking in size such that there … Read more

Nvidia’s Q2 FY21 results

Nvidia reported revenue, for the second quarter ended July 26, 2020, of $3.87 billion, up 50% from $2.58 billion a year earlier, and up 26% from $3.08 billion in the previous quarter. Nvidia closed its acquisition of Mellanox Technologies Ltd. on April 27, 2020. The company’s graphics business revenue was $1.9 billion, down 9% from last quarter, yet enjoyed a … Read more