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(link) Saturday, 25-March-2006 02:35:14 (GMT +10) - by Amran
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The big news at the moment seems to be the 2006 Game Developers Conference, which actually opened on Wednesday in California. Techgage have coverage of day 1 and day 2.
At this year's GDC, everyone's talking physics. If you like computer games, you should sit down and have a good read of these articles. The PPU now is what the GPU was 8 years ago.
AGEIA's PhysX - a dedicated "Physics Processor Unit" card is discussed at length at Techgage. Nvidia and ATI have both announced that their GPU's can perform a similar function using the HAVOK FX engine. PC Perspective spoke to ATI about their implementation of the HAVOK FX engine. PC Perspective compare all three offerings and show some videos of the system in action.
Another innovation that may improve the gaming experience in the future, nanotube circuits in CPU cores for near-terahertz speeds.
Intel launched the World Cyber Games 2006 in Singapore yesterday. For the World Cyber Games (WCG) tournament, the underlying theme has always been about building global harmony, friendship and fostering a healthy multi-cultural society on-line and off. Yep, nothing promotes global harmony and a healthy multi-cultural society better than a game of Counter-Strike or Battlefield 2...
As Lowgoz alluded to on Wednesday, EA are indeed working on Battlefield 2142. Thanks kimbecause.
Why was Windows Vista delayed until 2007? According to Smarthouse, they had to rewrite over half of it. Thanks Eroda.
Dan's unhealthy fascination with torches continues.
NGO HQ have a mini-rant about a recent XBox to PC port of The Godfather. ...EA forgot something relatively important with this port.
A reminder from White Rhino that this is the last week to vote for Feburary's Iron Photographer. You can also enter the competition for March, the theme is "pubs". Might take my camera to work, I wonder if I could photograph someone as I'm kicking them out?
Lastly, if you really must get away from the PC for a while and go outside, why not participate in the Brisbane Zombie Walk. A 48 hour LAN party would be perfect preparation for such an event.
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