With GDC 2015 fast approaching, it’s high time we got through the last major hardware parts of the Xbox One’s SDK leak. In this particular article, we’ll cover the DMA Move Engines and the remaining questions around the Xbox One’s memory bandwidth and copy operations. In the forth part, we’ll tackle the SHAPE audio.
Read More →I quite like how Microsoft pushes out updates. Pretty much every month Microsoft pushes out an update with a couple of interesting new features. While Sony have a method of giving users constant monthly “system stability” updates, then throws everything at you at once on all three systems (maybe four systems now with the.
Read More →I don’t know about you, but almost every week I have red mark upon my forehead from a repeat face palm due to another ridiculous move by Ubisoft. Ubisoft, why, why do you repeatedly make stupid retractions and have uninformed members of your team saying what they shouldn’t or what you didn’t want us.
Read More →Great news for investors of Next Generation consoles – both Sony’s PS4 and Microsoft’s X1 are on track to beef up the performance of both machines, We’ve been hearing all sorts of rumors concerning this, but Thuway (or Ashan Rasheed if you prefer) has stated via Twitter both machines are looking good with their.
Read More →Despite our best attempts to make our tech analysis and post-mortems as in-depth and easy to understand as possible, not everyone is aware of some of the basic terms and phrases that we throw about frequently. In this very article we’ll be going over the basics of the more common phrases you’ll likely hear.
Read More →We have a few major leaks and rumors to discuss regarding new additions to Nvidia’s Geforce range of cards. There’s nothing further on the new Maxwell architecture (so far), but instead we can discuss the Geforce GTX 790 and the Geforce GTX 880M. Both new cards are expected to be seeing the light of.
Read More →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.
Read More →Some information has been revealed on the Playstation 4’s OS (known as the Orbis OS) and it’s development. As mentioned above, the operating system is called The Orbis OS and is a modified version of FreeBSD 9.0. At the moment it remains unclear if this means we will once again be seeing the “Other.
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