The topic of Mantle, DX12 and various other API’s is popping up a lot recently, and just yesterday we’d discussed comments between ICE Team, Naughty Dog and other developers providing insights into their thoughts on the various competing offerings. Today we’ve a little more information as Cort Stratton and other developers have once again.

For PC owners, DirectX 12’s release next year will solve a long running issue with PC gaming – lack of a low level GPU access via the API. Sure, right now we’ve got AMD’s awesome Mantle API, but there are developers who’re a little cautious to stray away from the well supported DirectX API..

Microsoft’s GDC 2014 announcement of DirectX 12 came as little surprise to those in the tech industry, MS had boasted and teased about its released in advance after all. Rather, the surprise came with just how similarly it seemed to resemble AMD’s Mantle technology, and that it would work on current graphics cards. If.

If you’ve a passing interest in the PC gaming scene, you’ll likely have heard of Valve’s plans to push towards OpenGL and the Linux OS. The two most obvious cases for this would be the companies own (still in Beta) SteamOS, and their own Steam Machines. Many games developers are ‘in bed’ with Microsoft.

The Xbox One’s eSRAM has continued to be in the news since before even the consoles release, but for all of the wrong reasons. It’s often attributed to the systems lower performance “I don’t get this obsession with MS fanboys wanting the more powerful machine. Its not happening. Who cares. There are xbox fans who.

  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.

What Will PS4 and Xbox 720 Bring Other Than Faster Hardware We expect the next generation of consoles – The XBox 720 and Playstation 4 to be substantially better spec wise than the previous generation. It’s not an unfair expectation, but we should not focus our pursuit purely on the amont of FLOPS or.