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OpenGL successor Vulkan will level up the gaming industry
A successor to OpenGL, the open source graphics library that stands as a direct rival to Microsoft’s DirectX 12 library and Apple’s Metal, has been named by The Khronos Group, a consortium of schools and businesses tasked with maintaining OpenGL and OpenCL. That name is “Vulkan” and the new open source 2D and 3D graphics ...
PC gaming market expected to exceed $35 billion by 2018 says OGA report
The Open Gaming Alliance (OGA) announced plans to release an annual research report on the games industry at the end of March. This report contends that PC gaming is not just a growing industry, it’s an ever-expanding market that will grow from $26 billion in 2014 to $35 billion by 2018. The report, prepared for ...
How advanced camera options will help Guild Wars 2 players on March 10th
Last week, ArenaNet, Inc. announced that advanced camera options would be coming to its massively multiplayer online (MMO) game title Guild Wars 2 on March 10th. These options include a first person view as well as sliders permitting players to adjust camera distance, offset, and field of view. Since launch, GW2 has followed a fairly ...
HTC joins Valve to make leap from smartphones into virtual reality with ‘Vive’
The mobile phone company HTC Corporation just announced a partnership with video game distribution company Valve Corporation to create a virtual reality headset called the “Vive.” Consumer information for the device is available at the HTC Vive website. The announcement came during HTC’s Mobile World Congress press conference and, while bulky, looks a great deal ...
Leonard Nimoy, influencer of the Star Trek generation as Spock, dies at 83
Today Leonard Nimoy, the actor best known for his portrayal of Spock on Star Trek, died at age 83. He leaves behind a legacy of a science fiction generation and a swell of fans sad at his passing yet proud of his life accomplishments. His wife, Susan Nimoy, told The New York Times that her ...
Lenovo.com hijack raises Lizard Squad’s cybercriminal cred slightly
At approximately 4pm EST yesterday the Lenovo.com website took a turn for the strange: visitors were treated to a video slideshow of a random teens set to the tune of “Breaking Free” from High School Musical. All this courtesy of infamous Internet mayhem group Lizard Squad. Until recently, Lizard Squad appeared to be a poor-man’s-LulzSec: taunted ...
GW2Shinies: What games can get by opening up APIs to the developer community
The website GW2Shinies.com is the pet project of Sam Hemingway, a graduate of the University at Buffalo’s Computer Science & Engineering program, which gives insights to players of ArenaNet’s Guild Wars 2 insights into the player driven economy. It serves as an example of how, when a massively multiplayer game exposes in game data to 3rd ...
Bitcoin Weekly 2015 February 25: Stripe on board with Bitcoin, Blockchain.info 3m wallets, Rakuten news, BitGo $250k deposit insurance, BTER.com saga continues
The biggest news this week comes from web and mobile payments processor Stripe who took a year of testing to get good and now announced full integration for customers–with a single line of code. Next in line is Blockchain.info, which reports three million customer Bitcoin wallets. And even more big news Japanese e-commerce kaiju Rakuten ...
Crowfall Kickstarter hopes to bring ‘EVE Online meets Game of Thrones’ to the MMO genre
With the massively multiplayer online (MMO) game fantasy market quickly filling up with new titles and World of Warcraft still dominating the charts it’s difficult for a new studio to stand out. ArtCraft Entertainment, Inc. hopes to do that with its hybrid MMO real-time strategy game (MMORTS) Crowfall, which is now on Kickstarter. ArtCraft Entertainment ...
Screenshots finally coming to Xbox One with March update
The capability for Xbox One users to finally take screenshots and share them was teased by Xbox head Phil Spencer earlier this month. It’s beginning to look as if that feature will reach the console in March with a big update of other features. According to the features document screenshots can be taken by double-tapping ...