Jon Peddie Research releases its global Q1, 2019 add-in board report
AMD lifted the AIB market in the quarter
Famous Graphics Chips: 3Dfx’s Voodoo
This is the latest installment of a series of short articles about graphics chips, controllers, and processors, that changed the course of the computer graphics (CG) industry. 3Dfx was founded in 1994 in San Jose, California by former employees of Silicon Graphics (SGI) with backing from Gordie Campbell's TechFarm. In 1995, the company raised $5.5 million dollars from venture capitalists. … Read more
Will 20 million gamers switch to streaming gaming?
The publicity for a recent update of JPR’s TV Gaming Report included a headline predicting 20 million gamers will switch to streaming gaming. The headline achieved its goals and has received considerable comment. In response Ted and Jon have seen fit to defend their report. Ted began by making a list; it’s not in precise order of importance or relevance. … Read more
JPR forecasts 20 million PC Gamers could defect to TV Gaming platforms
PC Gaming Hardware Market forecast to cool down as TV and Cloud Gaming Markets Heat Up
Ray tracing in PS5?
We just got a glimpse at what might be coming in the new Sony console. That’s exciting, and so is the new that there will be a new console. Rumors about the PS5 have been floating around for almost a year now. After Nvidia’s big push for its ray tracing technology, AMD has been cautiously quiet on its plans for … Read more
Unity at GDC
Unity came to GDC fighting the perception it’s riding back seat to Epic’s position in the shotgun seat. The company made some progress during this year’s over 2-hour long keynote—not that Unity ever admits for a moment it’s chasing Unreal and, in fact, there’s much to argue that Unity has built a good position on its own turf, which has … Read more
Living the fantasy: B.S.B.B. MKII: Call it art
We came across the B.S.B.B. MKII while wandering aimlessly around GDC. Cordoned off, alone in the exhibit area, a man sat in the control center barking orders, or receiving them, we’re not complexly sure in an industrial cockpit complete with blinking lights, colored switches, fire alarms, and a landline phone for emergencies. The B.S.B.B. MK II traveled from its permanent … Read more
Changing the game, Google style.
We have known for a while that Google has been experimenting with streaming AAA games and we now know what they were aiming for because as of GDC 2019, the world has a new cloud-based gaming platform. It has a name—Stadia—and we have an explicit statement of what Google considers to be its unique strengths that will allow it … Read more
Epic’s new adventures
Every year, Unreal CEO Tim Sweeney and his executive team, set the stage for the GDC conference with their annual State of the Industry presentation. According to Tim Sweeney and company, the state of the industry is pretty darned good and to prove it, Epic is making investments in the game developer community, teaming with major players to enable streaming … Read more
The second coming of AR brought to you by Niantic
Niantic is preparing the ground for their new game Harry Potter: Wizards Unite, which is coming later this year to Android and iOS devices. The game combines the real world with digital elements a la Pokémon Go. The developers are hoping they’ll have the same kind of crazy hit this time around. The game is available for pre-register on … Read more
Unity acquires Vivox
Is there a game, aside from Monopoly that is, that celebrates the cutthroat nature of capitalism pitting competitors against each other in a fight to bankruptcy and turning allies against each other? Probably. The game is being played out in full force by Unity Technologies and Epic as both companies fight to build their technology portfolios to enable them to … Read more
Jon Peddie Research’s Market Watch reports GPU shipments down in Q4’18 from last quarter
The PC GPU market decreased year-to-year by (3.3)%, sequentially GPU shipments decreased (2.6)%