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Here Are Your DirectX 11 Games

8:30PM Luke Plunkett | Curious to see which games will support the latest in PC graphics wizardry, DirectX 11? There’s no better place to look than this list provided by AMD. More »
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This Is Why DiRT 2 PC Was Delayed

1:40AM Mike Fahey | Codemasters trotted out the PC version of Colin McRae: DiRT 2 today at the Windows 7 launch in New York, showing off the snazzy DirectX 11 features the game was delayed for. More »
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New AMD Graphics Card Runs Six Screens At Once

5:30PM Luke Plunkett | Completely pointless from a consumer standpoint, we know, but then, we also know this kind of stuff is cool regardless; witness one of AMD’s new DirectX 11 graphics cards running a game on six monitors. More »
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Dirt 2 PC Delayed For DirectX 11

12:20AM Mike Fahey | The PC version of Colin McRae: Dirt 2 is being driven to December in order to make sure the title supports the hardware tessellation, multi-threading and Shader Model 5.0 technology coming in DirectX 11. More »

DirectX 11 Won’t Repeat The Windows-Exclusive Sins Of It’s Father

3:00PM Luke Plunkett | When Windows Vista shipped, it shipped alongside DirectX 10. DirectX 10 would only run with Vista. It wouldn’t run with the faster, more stable, more popular Windows XP. This made those running games on XP unhappy. Well, fast forward a few years, and the next release of a Windows OS – Windows 7 – won’t be repeating the same mistake. Microsoft’s Product Marketing Manager Windows, Ben Basaric, has gone on record saying that while Windows 7 will be shipping with DX11 support (which will add features like allowing a graphics processor to process more than just graphics), it will also run on Windows Vista. So no need to go upgrading. Well…unless you’re one of millions still using XP… DirectX 11 confirmed for Windows 7 – Microsoft revised statement [PCGH, via Voodoo Extreme] More »

DirectX 11 Announcement Coming This Month?

1:20PM Luke Plunkett | Do you feel that, PC gamers? That pressure? It’s the future, bearing relentlessly down upon you. While many PC gamers are still without DirextX 10, thanks to its Vista-only segregation, word on the PC tech streets (in this case, Graphics Whore boulevard) is that DirectX 11 will be announced by Microsoft later this month, no doubt accompanied by pictures of Crysis featuring all kinds of lighting and environmental effects you won’t be able to see/afford until 2011. The announcement’s supposed to take place on July 22-23 at the XNA Gamefest event in Seattle. DirectX 11 to get announced this month [Fudzilla, via VG247] More »