The Khronos Group that maintains the OpenGL API launched two new flavors of the specification at the Games Developer Conference (GDC) this week. OpenGL 4.0 is designed to update the API to DirectX ...

You know one reason the PC platform doesn’t match the Mac for gaming (tongue in cheek) is its slavish devotion to DirectX 11, but perhaps this will change now Open GL has been updated to become a much ...

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We recently had the chance to sit down with some folks at NVIDIA to discuss high performance graphics APIs (Application Programming Interfaces). With all of the noise recently surrounding AMD’s Mantle ...

With one of the world's biggest game developers announcing its plans to go cross-platform earlier this week, now might be an opportune moment to introduce a new version of the most popular ...

Most development effort in graphics drivers these days, whether you're talking about Nvidia, Intel, or AMD, is focused on new APIs like DirectX 12 or Vulkan, increasingly advanced upscaling ...

At its Siggraph 2014 booth, Intel is showing off one of the first public demos of DirectX 12 and Direct3D 12 -- and the improvement over older graphics APIs, such as DirectX 11, is really quite ...

If Monday's announcement of SteamOS was greeted with a great deal of interest and speculation, Wednesday's announcement that Valve was getting into living room PCs with broad compatibility and a full ...

In line with its regular update cadence, the Khronos Group — the organization behind specs like OpenGL, OpenCL and WebGL — today launched updated specs for its OpenGL specs for 3D desktop applications ...

The most significant update yet to No Man's Sky is coming this summer. It's called NEXT. Whatever advances it brings (VR among other things is rumored), it will be making its debut on the Xbox One.

Developer 4A Games has released Linux and SteamOS versions of its first-person shooters Metro 2033 Redux and Metro: Last Light Redux. Both games support Steam Play, so if you've already bought them ...