Sources are reporting Sony are working on a new version of their Playstation 4 system and are already briefing developers, claiming the PS4.5 will be capable of running games at up to a 4K resolution. UPDATE: New sources and information…
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PS4 Slim Incoming Or Nintendo Next Console? Samsung 1GB GDDR5 RAM Mass Production
Samsung have just announced they are to begin mass producion of the industry’s first 8 gigabit GDDR5 DRAM ram modules, thanks to 20nm process technology. This announcement has sent rumors flying Sony might consider releasing a slim-line version of their…
Nintendo’s New 3DS | Be Mad At the Name Not Its Release
Nintendo have managed to annoy quite a few people with the announcement of their new handheld device, the rather poorly named “New 3DS”. Aside from the additional controls on the unit itself, there will be additional CPU power in the…
Resolution & Frame Rate How They Work & Analysis On Impact in Games |Tech Tribunal
Since the Playstation 4 or Xbox One’s specs were leaked online both gamer’s and media have placed a lot of their focus on both the resolution a game runs at, along with its frame rate. Much of the the Xbox…
Xbox One GPU – Confirmed 10 Percent Performance Boost Thanks To Update | How It Works
An increase in the Xbox One’s GPU performance was recently mentioned on Twitter by Phil Spencer, but the original tweet provided little more than a tidbit of information. Microsoft have since provided much a needed insight to what the update means…
Watch Dogs Playstation 4 & Xbox One Frame Rate Analysis | Tech Tribunal
Let’s get this over and done with right off the bat, the frame rate of Watch Dogs for both next generation systems is pretty damn impressive considering the shear amount of explosions and chaos often clogging up the screen. While…
Half Life 3 Confirmed In Development & Left 4 Dead 3 Looks Great Says CS Creator
Minh Le, the creator of the infamous Counter Strike ‘confirms’ that the now meme worthy Half-Life 3 is indeed in development. There have been a few leaks on Source engine 2 and HL3 but little conformation. Right now. Additionally he commented briefly on…
Sniper Elite 3 Will Run At Closer to 60FPS ‘bit slower’ on Xbox One
I think it’s pretty much a certainty by now that if you’re slightly invested in the ‘next generation’ (when is it acceptable to call it current generation?) consoles, you’d have heard of the so called resolution gate issues. To sum…
Exclusive AMD Interview – Discussing GCN Architecture, Compute Performance & The Future Part 1
AMD are one of the biggest forces in next generation gaming right now. AMD are producing the chips for the next generation consoles, the Playstation 4, Wii U and Xbox One. Additionally, the Radeon R9 290X is one of the…
Exclusive AMD Interview – Discussing GCN Architecture, Performance & The Future Part 1 Page 2
Let’s assume I’m a games developer and I’m in the middle of creating a game for the PS4. There are reports that Mantle is similar to the Playstation 4’s API. Since the PS4 uses the GCN technology, Is it relatively…
PS4 – Developers Were Speechless When 8GB GDDR5 Ram Was Announced
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…
Playstation 4 CPU ‘Quite Slow Compared to PC’ Says Developer
The Playstation 4’s CPU frequency is still unknown, despite lots of speculation. Sony have remained tight lipped concerning the machines clock speed, with ‘guesses’ ranging from between 1,6GHZ to 2GHZ. Just a few days ago, I ran with a piece…
Xbox One – Small Number of Using Complaining of Blu-Ray Drive Trouble
The Xbox One has just been released to the world, and already there are a few reports popping up across the internet which show off problems with the machine. The good news is that the machine powers on okay, indeed…
PS4 Hardware – What’s Inside The PS4
Now that the Playstation 4 has been released we have a good understanding of what lies inside the machine. In this article we’re going to be taking an overall look at the PS4’s internals and doing an analysis of all that…
Playstation 4 Audio DSP Based On AMD’s PC TrueAudio Technology
The Playstation 4’s audio chip has remained somewhat of a mystery until recently, when during AMD APU2013 conference AMD revealed the PS4’s audio chip is based on their TrueAudio API and chip technology technology. Let’s explore exactly what AMD’s true…