Recent content by XavierS

Both ZeniMax Media and Activision Blizzard were structured as 3rd parties and making them exclusive requires huge changes to their entire business models and structure. Microsoft decided they should continue to exist separately in Microsoft Gaming rather than moving the development studios to...

Peter Hofstee from IBM gave a talk at Stanford this last Wednesday about the Cell microprocessor. I don't know about what has or hasn't been announced with respect to cell but I don't think anything major was revealed. The talk was a good overview of the reasons behind the cell design, some of...

There are some videos here: http://www.pqhp.com/cmp/gdctv/. They do not have DenoC's talk yet however.

I think that as far as any official announcements go Gears of War has been announced for the Xbox 360 and UT 2007 for the PC.

Has anyone read the 360 GPU article on Extremetech.com: http://www.extremetech.com/article2/0,1558,1818139,00.asp. They claim the GPU can do 120 billion shader ops per second. Could they have gotten that figure by counting the logic units in the eDram?

In an interview a month or two ago either Steve Ballmer or Bill Gates said they are putting so much into Live they expect about 80% of their customers to adopt it next gen. So it will not be a requirment.

Personally I see a lot of ties between this company and Microsoft on their website. 1. On their "About AGEIA" page the partner quote is from Big Huge Games, who uses Microsoft as a publisher. 2. The PPU is said to work in Unreal Engine 3 by Epic, which I think is lead by an ex-microsoft...

It does say AGEIA supports XNA, but isn't XNA also used by PC developers? And in this description of a session Sony is doing at the GDC: " *COLLADA* is a *COLLA*borative *D*esign *A*ctivity for establishing an interchange format for interactive 3D applications. COLLADA is co-designed by the...

I just noticed that too, and was going to post about it. :D The article I found it in was here: http://www.mercurynews.com/mld/mercurynews/business/11071204.htm (free registration required.) They seem pretty sure about a late '05 release date, I'm surprised they were able to keep it...

I just noticed that Artificial-Studios released a new video last week showcasing their reality engine in a FPS setting. It is the first video at this page: http://www.artificialstudios.com/techdemos.php . I thought it was pretty impressive considering it was spun off of Cry-Havoc which claims to...

There might be a problem porting between Xenon and the Revolution if the Nintendo console is a true Revolution. If it does have a novel interface or input device developers might have a lot to change to get it on the Xenon; sorta of like porting from the DS to the PSP. :shock: This might be...

The page says the computer is running Windows XP Media Center edition, so they are probably just talking about the Xbox Media Extender. That lets you stream live TV from a Media Center Computer to the TV the Xbox is hooked up to.