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Nvidia unveils Turing-based Quadro RTX family

Packs up to 48GB of GDDR6.

14-8-18 // 11:54a.m.

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AMD, Cooler Master announce Wraith Ripper heatsink

$120, cools up to 250W TDP parts.

14-8-18 // 11:28a.m.

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Firefox, Chrome confirm TLS 1.3 support

Less than a week after finalisation.

14-8-18 // 11:16a.m.

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Review AMD Ryzen Threadripper 2990WX and 2950X Review

Can AMD reign in Intel's high-end desktop dominance with 2nd Gen Ryzen Threadripper 32- and 16-core CPUs

13-8-18 // 2:00p.m.

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GDC report points to growing Switch, waning VR interest

More Switch interest than Xbox One, interestingly.

25-1-18 // 11:29a.m.

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Khronos Group unveils OpenGL 4.5

Teases 'ground-up' redesign, too.

12-8-14 // 11:04a.m.

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Crytek open-sources Renderdoc debugger

MIT licence for DirectX analysis tool.

8-5-14 // 10:40a.m.

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Microsoft and Intel team up for Sharks Cove SBC

SoC dev board due 2H 2014.

7-4-14 // 10:03a.m.

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AMD unveils Mantle, a new high-speed gaming API

Leveraging its console design wins AMD is pushing a new AMD optimised API.

25-9-13 // 11:31p.m.

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Unity co-founder quits to make games

Unity co-founder Nicholas Francis has left the company in order to pursue his own creative projects.

25-2-13 // 9:56a.m.

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Review Critical Hit: Why Don't We Reuse Game Worlds?

Columnist Richard Cobbett examines the egregious wastage of games development.

14-7-11 // 7:46a.m.

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Amazon looks set to release tablet

A large order for touchscreens implies that Amazon may be extending its range of handheld devices.

3-5-11 // 11:35a.m.

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Review Asetek Research and Design Centre Tour

We travelled to Denmark to see how Asetek designs and develops its closed-loop liquid coolers.

17-9-10 // 7:32a.m.

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Adobe demos FlashTime video calling

Adobe has unveiled a demo product based on Air for Android which duplicates Apple's FaceTime.

20-7-10 // 10:16a.m.

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Review Asus Eee Keyboard PC Interview

After two years in development, we discuss the Eee Keyboard with Asus' Engineers.

17-7-10 // 9:30a.m.

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Review Microsoft’s future of gaming: XNA and touch

Microsoft briefed us on the ways it sees gaming developing, focusing on multi-player, touch-screen gaming and making development easier for small studios and bedroom coders. We take a look at its touch-screen concepts and XNA program.

17-3-10 // 8:37a.m.

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Google's Go: an open-source language

Google has launched a public version of its internal programming language Go, which is open-source and promises a range of improvements over traditional languages.

12-11-09 // 2:52p.m.

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Microsoft lifts 720p Xbox 360 requirement

Microsoft apparently lifted the requirement that all games run at 720p from Xbox 360 developers earlier this year.

3-9-09 // 2:01p.m.

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Cheating in Game Design

16-3-09 // 11:09a.m.

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The Curse of Darwinia

9-3-09 // 1:23p.m.

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My New Game: Space Battles

12-2-09 // 11:29a.m.

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Sega to cancel games, lay off hundreds

Sega has announced plans to cancel a number of games in development, close more than a hundred arcades and lay off approximately 18 percent of its workforce.

11-2-09 // 1:04p.m.

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Welcome to the bit-tech Blog!

30-1-09 // 2:51p.m.

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A little column here and little blog there

30-1-09 // 1:27p.m.

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Appcelerator launches Adobe Air rival

Start up Appcelerator has launched a public test build of Titanium, an open source platform for the development of web applications that aims to beat Adobe's Air.

10-12-08 // 1:02p.m.

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App Store hits 10,000 apps

Apple's App Store has beaten all expectations with the news that after just 142 days the service has reached 10,000 iPhone and iPod Touch applications.

2-12-08 // 9:06a.m.

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Gearbox is not developing Halo 4

NVISION 2008: We can confirm that Gearbox is not working on Halo 4 - instead, the developer's Director of Technology left to head up the new team at Microsoft.

29-8-08 // 4:13p.m.

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Only 5 percent of game design degrees accredited

According to a recent survey by the BBC, of 81 game development courses hosted in the UK, only 4 are actually accredited.

19-6-08 // 11:05a.m.

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First open-source graphics card available

The Open Graphics Project has announced availability of the worlds first open-source graphics card, but don't think you can just buy it and plug it in - it's a development platform.

23-5-08 // 9:09a.m.

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Sony delays Home, promises open beta in autumn

Sony has announced that it has pushed back the release of PlayStation Home, but promised an open beta this autumn.

22-4-08 // 5:12p.m.

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John Carmack talks ray-tracing, PC gaming

John Carmack has spoken about a number of topics surrounding games development, and given some insight on the future.

14-3-08 // 1:33p.m.

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Activision confirms Call of Duty 5

During its quarterly earnings call, the publisher has confirmed that the next Call of Duty instalment will be released in no more than 14 months' time.

11-2-08 // 10:26a.m.

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Futuremark to dabble with games development

Futuremark, creator of 3DMark and PCMark, has announced the formation of the Futuremark Games Studio.

30-1-08 // 8:23a.m.

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Gabe Newell says DX10 for Vista was a mistake

Gabe Newell, President of Valve Software, has said that Microsoft’s choice to limit DirectX 10 to Windows Vista was “a terrible mistake”.

28-8-07 // 11:31a.m.

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Facebook in hot water over IP theft allegations

The owner of Facebook is facing allegations of stealing the idea from his fellow classmates at Harvard University.

26-7-07 // 10:40a.m.

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Silicon Knights files lawsuit against Epic Games

Mark Rein, VP at Epic Games has revealed that Silicon Knights has filed a lawsuit against the Unreal Engine 3 creator.

20-7-07 // 2:17p.m.

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Britain down on games development chart

The world development rankings are out again and apparently we just don't make them like we used to, sliding down a place in the chart.

5-7-07 // 3:02p.m.

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Alien RPG coming soon!

The makers of Neverwinter Nights 2 and Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic will soon be making an Alien RPG. Can they pull it off?

14-12-06 // 9:59a.m.

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Microsoft releases security fixes

Have you updated your Windows security? Get all the details about it here and find out why Apple's Steve Jobs has got a problem with Microsoft.

9-8-06 // 1:41p.m.

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Fotango releases Zimki, JavaScript developers rejoice

Interested in developing web applications and tools? Zimki is a Java framework that is designed to make it simple to get code up and running.

14-7-06 // 9:30a.m.

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Microsoft buys Lionhead Studios

Microsoft has cleared all speculation on the future of Surrey based Lionhead Studios with the acquisition of one of the UK's most talented development houses. Lionhead is run by Peter Molyneux - one of the world's most inventive game makers ever.

6-4-06 // 12:41p.m.

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STALKER could be dead in the wilderness

The stalk-em-up faces a strenuous push to be finished, after reports of mass lay-offs on the development team.

30-1-06 // 9:22a.m.

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