Author Archives: Ron

Game Developers Conference 2003, March 4-8 San Jose

Posted on February 25, 2003 by Ron

Why in God’s name they have to hold the thing in San Jose or Santa Clara every year I’ll never know. One year they did hold it in Long Beach and that was at least different. But in any event, … Continue reading →

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Richard Huddy interview on DriverHeaven

Posted on February 25, 2003 by Ron

Those you you that have attended a Game Developer Conference, Meltdown, Siggraph, etc. or frequent the directx-dev list have seen Richard Huddy in action. DriverHeaven has posted an interview with Richard in which he talks about his move to ATI, … Continue reading →

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NVIDIA and Microsoft make-up – End arbitration over XBox chip pricing

Posted on February 6, 2003 by Ron

An NVIDIA press release announced that they had reached an agreement with Microsoft over the pricing dispute of the GPU (graphics) and MPU (audio/networking) chips that NVIDIA manufacturers for the XBOX. NVIDIA president and CEO Jen-Hsun Huang, states “This is … Continue reading →

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Posted on December 21, 2002 by Ron

Microsoft has finally released DirectX 9 to the public. New features are High Level Shading Language (HLSL) support A Shader Debugger that integrates with Visual Studio. Pixel/Vertex shaders version 2.0/2.0+ (for the latest hardware) Pixel/Vertex shaders version 3.0 (a specification … Continue reading →

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Carmack backs OpenGL in shader wars

Posted on July 1, 2002 by Ron

By Andrew Orlowsk – the Register Game god John Carmack has given OpenGL his blessing in the ever-thickening shader wars. Carmack says that given the 3Dlabs P10 card, he opted to use the OpenGL 2.0 extensions for the shader path, … Continue reading →

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Xbox fathers start game development company

Posted on May 10, 2002 by Ron

By Ben Berkowitz – Reuters Two of the creators of Microsoft’s Xbox have joined a pair of video-game industry veterans to launch a venture with a familiar Hollywood feel: find raw talent, create edgy entertainment, and then sign with a … Continue reading →

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Biting the hand that feeds you… NVIDIA fights Microsoft, sorta

Posted on May 1, 2002 by Ron

San Jose— So where does an 800 pound gorilla sleep? Where ever he wants. Microsoft has told NVIDIA that they deal that they had for pricing chipsets last year isn’t so cool. Microsoft points out that – hey, you must … Continue reading →

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3DLabs to be acquired by Creative Technology

Posted on March 1, 2002 by Ron

3DLabs announced today that it has signed an agreement to be acquired by Creative Technology LTD. (NASDAQ:CREAF) Creative will purchase 3Dlabs stock at $3.60 per share, with two-thirds being converted to Creative stock and one-third to cash, valuing the company … Continue reading →

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