$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
Cloudgine technology will give developers working in Unreal the ability to offload compute jobs to cloud processing. Epic is adding on to its arsenal of capabilities with a middleware provider, Cloudgine. The company has acquired Edinburg-based Cloudgine, for its technology to enable gaming on the cloud. Cloudgine was founded in 2012 in Edinburgh by former Grand Theft Auto co-founder David … Read more
Tested and evaluated, and impressive Releasing two top end parts, the Ryzen Threadripper CPU, and the Radeon RX64 at the same time is a bit overwhelming when trying to do an evaluation of either one. To test the Ryzen Threadripper you need to use AMD and Nvidia AIBs. To test the Vega, you need to use AMD and Intel CPUs. … Read more
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