The big potential of training and education games
The education and gaming market is ill-defined but those applications represent a significant market. And it’s growing.
The big potential of training and education games
Source: Gerd Altmann from Pixabay The global video game industry has many game types, genres, platforms, business, and use models. There are so many permeations and combinations that people often disagree about what is what. There is even debate about the definition of what constitutes a video game. I have always viewed simulation and interactive training/education as part of … Read more
Penny Arcade achieves 15-year milestone for gaming conference series
PAX West 2019 Seattle Convention Center. (Source: JPR) Penny Arcade (PAX) started in 2004 in Bellevue, Washington, born of a desire by webcomic authors Jerry Holkins and Mike Krahulik to hold a show exclusively for gaming. The three-day Labor Day weekend conference featured presentations, rock & roll performances, a tournament, and collectible pin trading. There was also a curated … Read more
Federal Bureau of Control
Remedy of Espoo Finland has brought us some great game like the Max Payne series, the creepy Alan Wake, and the failed time-machine in Quantum Break. Control is a bit different, and a bit enhanced with ray tracing effects brought to life through Nvidia’s RTX accelerators. The folks in Espoo have always created clever, edgy, and intelligent FPSs that challenge … Read more
Nvidia (re)invents linear scaling
Back to the future with classic imagine-processing
Nvidia’s pre-rendered low-latency frames
Back in 2015 or earlier, Nvidia introduced a nice feature to help keep frame rates up with the users’ expectations. They called it Maximum Pre-Rendered Frames, also known as Max Frames to Render Ahead. It controls the number of frames the CPU prepares in advanced of being rendered by the GPU. The default value is 3. The higher values … Read more
Insomniac Studios joins Sony Interactive
Spiderman to Stormland exclusive PS4-5 titles now
Corsair acquires Origin PC
Corsair began in 1994 as a PC DIMM memory supplier and quickly expanded to power supplies, coolers, keyboards, and other peripherals and components. The company has become a trusted supplier to the DIY community, as well as SIs, and VARs and as they grow, they have steadily moved into further adjacencies growing its portfolio to over 20 product lines. … Read more
Valve’s updated web page
In writing fiction, one is advised to show, don’t tell. Valve has taken that advice and created a web page that will give you a preview of dozens of games. But that’s only one part of what they’ve done. Steam has opened up games in development and letting people take them out for a spin. Users are invited to … Read more
Kicking down barriers, Nvidia has awoken the industry to ray tracing
The next great hurdle has been conquered
E3 marks a major change in the gaming industry
New technology makes it possible for everyone to be a gamer
Streaming gaming is the next big thing
Really really big