More than 2,600 North American game developers were surveyed for the March Games Developers Conference. The survey was conducted to poll how games developers planned to obtain financing, which platforms they favored to develop for and so on. It came as no great surprise that the Playstation 4 was slightly ahead of the Xbox.

Sony’s Playstation 4 is pretty infamous by now for its memory system. The Playstation 4 sports 8GB of GDDR5 memory, giving a total bandwidth of 176GB/s of unified memory, with a robust bus structure to help send data whizzing around the system. The Playstation 4 wasn’t always planned to have 8GB of RAM however..

The Playstation 4 flexed its graphical prowess with the launch game: Killzone Shadow Fall; undoubtedly making for one of the most impressive graphical debuts of a console yet. As many know, launch titles with consoles are either rush jobs, or aren’t as graphically impressive as you’d expect for a next generation system because the.

The Xbox One’s memory system – primarily the ESRAM has been the subject of much discussion in the gaming news media. Just a few weeks ago, I ran the piece discussing the issues with the Xbox One’s ESRAM and Resolution (article). The basic premise is that the amount of RAM is limited, and it.

  Corrinne Yu, who is the former Principal Engine Programmer for 343 Industries has now joined Naughty Dog. Prior to working her five years at 343 Industries Corrinne worked with developer Gearbox Software (responsible for titles such as Borderlands). “I miss working with many capable developers on the Halo team, but am also excited.

AMD have had a busy few days, they have just announced their new range of GPU’s, including the R9 290x (which is a 5TFLOP monster), and have also let the world know about Mantle. AMD’s Mantle API is a newly developed, open API which in theory proves drastically improved performance over the more traditional.