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Nvidia’s Shield Handheld Priced, Dated, And Double Fine’d
Announced in January as Project Shield, Nvidia’s intriguing new handheld now has a price, a June release window, and the promise of Double Fine’s Broken Age. Who’s ready to spend $US350 on a dedicated Android gaming device?
You Can Download Next-Gen Human Faces Right Now
“Ira” is the name given to the bald guy you may have seen lately in some next-gen tech videos from Nvidia and Activision. He’s one more step down the road towards more believable artificial characters.
You Can Now Download And Play With NVIDIA’s Life-Like Face Rendering Tech
Back in March at NVIDIA’s GPU Technology Conference, CEO Jen-Hsun Huang cracked out “Digital Ira”, an animated demonstration of its so-called FaceWorks technology. It was an impressive display and while not 100% life-like, it represented a substantial leap forward in gaming fidelity. Now you can have a play with it yourself.
Watch Nvidia Blow Stuff Up In Hawken
Nvidia’s good at blowing stuff up. In this video, we can see them apply that to games — in this case, Adhesive Games’ currently-in-open-beta mech shooter, Hawken.
Your Next Phone Could Be More Powerful Than A PS3
In 2005 and 2006, the Xbox 360 and PS3 were cutting-edge pieces of consumer electronics, finely tuned to deliver a premium gaming performance with the very latest technology inside. As is the way with technology though, as components mature, they get smaller and cheaper, so it’s not too bit a surprise to hear Nvidia saying the next generation of mobile phones will “outperform” the current generation of consoles.
I Would Pay Good Money To Play This Impressive Destruction Demo
When Nvidia wants crap to break apart, it breaks apart good. This is is a real-time dynamic fracture demo shown at GDC, running at 30 frames-per-second on a single Geforce GTX 680 graphics card.
These Computer Graphics Are So Incredible, It’s Kind Of Creepy
Speaking at the GPU Technology Conference in California this week, hardware company NVIDIA talked about its much-vaunted Titan graphics card. Here’s a video of NVIDIA showing off what it can do with it.
Tomb Raider Performance Test: Graphics And CPUs
Although this year’s Tomb Raider reboot made our latest list of most anticipated PC games, I must admit that it was one of the games I was least looking forward to from a performance perspective. Previous titles in the franchise have received mixed to positive reviews, but gameplay aside, their visuals weren’t exactly mind-blowing so we’ve never bothered doing a performance review on one — until now, anyway.
Crysis 3 Performance Test: Graphics Cards And CPUs
Built with CryEngine2, the original Crysis raised the bar for PC gaming graphics in 2007 with stunningly detailed visuals that crippled even the fastest of rigs. Looking back at our first Crysis performance article, which was based on the game’s demo, the fastest GPU available at the time (the GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB) struggled to average 30fps when running at 1920×1200 with high quality settings on DirectX 10.
