The Khronos Group that maintains the OpenGL API launched two new flavors of the specification at the Games Developer Conference (GDC) this week. OpenGL 4.0 is designed to update the API to DirectX ...

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PC hardware companies work in funny ways sometimes. When AMD had a new driver ready that added extra features with arguably niche appeal, like its AMD Link in-home streaming tech, it was very excited ...

With one of the world's biggest game developers announcing its plans to go cross-platform earlier this week, now might be an opportune moment to introduce a new version of the most popular ...

You know one reason the PC platform doesn’t match the Mac for gaming (tongue in cheek) is its slavish devotion to DirectX 11, but perhaps this will change now Open GL has been updated to become a much ...

At Siggraph 2014, the Khronos Group has announced both OpenGL 4.5 and, more excitingly, the Next Generation OpenGL Initiative. OpenGL 4.5, except for some new Direct3D 11 emulation features for easier ...

The most significant update yet to No Man's Sky is coming this summer. It's called NEXT. Whatever advances it brings (VR among other things is rumored), it will be making its debut on the Xbox One.

If Monday's announcement of SteamOS was greeted with a great deal of interest and speculation, Wednesday's announcement that Valve was getting into living room PCs with broad compatibility and a full ...