It’s difficult to know what to make of the Xbox One. When Microsoft first debuted the console nearly two years ago, its vision of the future of gaming slammed face first into the rock wall of consumer expectations. Microsoft offered a second-generation motion tracker with voice commands and an “always on” capability — but consumers didn’t want it. The company declared that online and retail disc purchases ...
For the past few years, both AMD and Nvidia have been talking up their respective solutions for improving gaming display quality. Nvidia calls its proprietary implementation G-Sync, and has been shipping G-Sync displays with partner manufacturers for over a year, while AMD worked with VESA (Video Electronics Standard Association) to build support for Adaptive Sync (aka FreeSync) into the DisplayPort ...
Nintendo dropped a pair of bombshells on the gaming world. First, the company announced that it had partnered with Japanese mobile game development company, DeNA (pronounced DNA), and would bring its major franchises — all of them — to mobile gaming. Second, it has begun work on a next-generation console, codenamed the Nintendo “NX.” Both of these announcements are huge shifts ...
Nvidia is launching its new, ultra-high end luxury GPU, the GeForce GTX Titan X. This is the fourth GPU to carry the Titan brand, but only the second architecture to do so. When Nvidia launched the first Titan, it used a cut-down version of its workstation and HPC processor, the GK110, with just 14 of its 15 SMX units enabled. Later cards, like the Titan Black, added RAM and enabled the last SMX unit, ...
Finally, suspend and resume is headed for the PS4. Sony officially confirmed that the long-awaited feature is coming in the next major firmware revision. Other convenience and performance tweaks will be added to firmware 2.50 (dubbed “Yukimura”) as well, so PS4 users will have an even better gaming experience going forward. In a blog post, Sony’s Scott McCarthy confirmed that game suspension ...
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