2014 seems a very long time ago, but that’s when Microsoft first unveiled news that it was working on releasing DirectX 12, to serve as the companies answer to developers asking for a low level API. DX12 was designed from the ground up to tackle the issues and constraints plaguing PC game development at.

This year is shaping up to be an incredible year in gaming and technology, seeing the release of 14nm graphics cards, the first DirectX 12 and Vulkan titles, Virtual Reality headsets and a whole lot more. With this in mind, we decided to reach out to AMD’s Head of Global Technical Marketing, Mr. Robert.

Microsoft’s Build 2016 conference has been pretty interesting thus far, and as Phil Spencer took to the stage, it was clear his primary goal was to diffuse the growing complaints in the PC community regarding the limitations of UWP. “Through the Universal Windows Platform, our plan is to deliver games that will run better.

Rise of the Tomb Raider for the PC is the first title to officially use Nvidia’s VXAO (Voxel Ambient Occlusion) technology thanks to a spiffy new title update (which also added the touted DirectX 12 mode too). VXAO is considered by Nvidia to be the next evolutionary step of HBAO+, offering even higher quality.

Ubisoft’s original Watch Dogs held a lot of promise, and with luck the sequel will deliver. Ubisoft are going to be pushing the visual boat out on Watch Dogs 2, and have confirmed that the title will fully support DirectX 12. Interestingly, AMD’s Roy Taylor tweeted an article from The Country Caller, which hints.

With preview copies of Remedy Software’s eagerly anticipated Quantum Break floating around, news quickly broke that the Xbox One version of the title runs at the rather disappointing resolution of just 720P. Before the announcement of a Windows 10 Port, Quantum Break was touted as a graphical masterpiece for Microsoft’s Xbox One console, and.

If you’ve even a passing interest in technology or gaming it’s pretty much impossible to not stumble over someone hyping the release of Microsoft’s DirectX 12 on the PC. But things have been quieter on the Xbox One front, particularly after the cancellation of Fable Legends, the first title touted to use DX12 on.

After years of a console focus, Microsoft are taking PC gaming seriously once again; from new software and initiatives such as DirectX 12, Windows 10, Universal Windows Platform to bringing former Xbox One exclusives such as Quantum Break and Gears of War onto the PC. But there’s a growing concern among both developers and gamer’s that.

Microsoft’s plans to unify the Xbox One and PC gaming experiences is easily one of the biggest stories floating around the internet right now. In a move which shocked the gaming industry Phil Spencer announced Microsoft were considering abandoning a fixed spec Xbox One and allowing the hardware to be upgradable, further blurring the.

Phil Spencer has hinted instead of a successor to the Xbox One, Microsoft may instead be planning on releasing a hardware upgrade for their system. Update: With the recent interview with the Guardian, it would appear Phil Spencer is referring to incremental hardware upgrade of the Xbox One’s SKU’s, in other words a fresh.

Disclaimer: We received this GPU from AMD to review. For the past year, PC gamer’s have been spoiled for choice in the GPU market, with an excellent range of hardware from both vendors to fit in almost any budget; from the ultra expensive bleeding edge cards such as the GTX 980 Ti or Fury.

AMD have revealed the first performance numbers of their R9 Nano graphics cards during the Hot Chips conference. The High Bandwidth Memory powered GPU beats the R9 290X in frame rates – an impressive feat considering just how small the entire card is. The Radeon R9 Nano is probably the most exciting of AMD’s.

Oxide Games have unleashed their eagerly anticipated Ashes of the Singularity, a real time strategy title where tens of thousands of units can battle each other across huge battlefields. Ashes of the Singularity also represents the first chance for gamer’s to see how DirectX 12 compares to DirectX 11 in an actual game environment,.

We’ve entered an extremely exciting time for PC gaming, with promising new memory technologies, die shrinks and increasingly powerful processors heralding in unparalleled graphics. But, the biggest buzz this year isn’t from a piece of hardware, it’s instead from an API – Microsoft’s DirectX 12. Much has been made of DirectX 12’s multi-threaded improvements,.