Gaming

GDC: Five guys and Jon: Torching the cat

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

Epic Games acquires Cloudgine

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

AMD Vega and Ryzen

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