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AMD/ATI GPU Tools Updates: Xmas Gifts for Graphics Developers!

Sun, 28 Dec 2008 15:00:52 GMT

AMD/ATI has updated several tools and libraries for graphics developers to analyze your GPU applications, optimize performance, compress and optimize meshes and textures.

Gamebryo 2.6 Released!

Tue, 04 Nov 2008 21:29:36 GMT

Emergent Game Technologies is proud to announce GamebryoT 2.6, the world's most flexible game development framework. This release solidifies Gamebryo's leading position as the only true cross-platform, multi-genre, any-core game engine. Gamebryo supports all of today's most popular targets - including capabilities for the Wii that are available nowhere else.

£1,000 Cash Prize Announced for New DX Studio Games Competition

Thu, 02 Oct 2008 17:29:12 GMT

In line with the recent release of DX Studio Version 3, software developers Worldweaver Ltd have just launched a competition for the best game demo made using the DX Studio platform. With a deadline of midnight (GMT) 20th December it only gives teams 80 days to get from scratch to a complete game. "This is the first time we have offered a cash prize for any of our competitions. We have no idea what sort of games will be submitted as DX Studio is not tied into any particular style" said founder Chris Sterling.

World Machine 2 - Terrain Generation / Modeling Software is released

Fri, 12 Sep 2008 17:41:39 GMT

World Machine Software recently released the long in development successor to World Machine 1.0. The application offers a wide range of sophisticated tools for creating and customizing realistic looking terrains. World Machine 2.0 is currently being used within the Crysis mod community as well as many other major game studios. It's basic version is free to check out.

InteliShade Beta v3.0 Has Been Released

Sat, 23 Aug 2008 01:14:23 GMT

InteliShade is a Visual Studio plugin allowing you to have code outlining and intellisense when editing Effect files in your projects. InteliShade 3.0 supports Visual Studio 2005 and 2008 and is available as a free download.

trueSpace 7.6 is now free!

Fri, 25 Jul 2008 02:05:04 GMT

The professional Modelling Software: trueSpace 7.6 is now free on the Caligari website. This software is about a 400 dollar value and should make a great addition to your game creation toolkits.

PerfHUD 6 Beta 2 released

Fri, 06 Jun 2008 14:40:54 GMT

PerfHUD 6 Beta 2 is the second public beta of PerfHUD. NVIDIA PerfHUD is a powerful real-time performance analysis tool for Direct3D applications. PerfHUD 6.0 includes many new features: * Supports GeForce 8 and 9 GPUs * SLI Support * Texture Visualization and Overrides * API Call List * Draw Call Dependency View * New CPU/GPU Timing graph * Instant Feedback (Hit F4 in PerfHUD to send comments/suggestions directly to the PerfHUD team)