Intel announces Achievement Unlocked dev relations program
Intel wants to make life easier for game developers targeting its integrated graphics. To that end, the company has announced a new developer relations initiative called Achievement Unlocked at GDC 2015. I'll let Intel speak for itself here:[Achievement Unlocked is] a coordinated worldwide effort to help game developers succeed when creating games that target Intel Graphics hardware, Intel Core processors, and Intel Atom processors. A new game developer portal supports bidirectional communication with game developers. Achievement Unlocked offers improved technical assistance to developers worldwide and additional success mentoring ...
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Intel partners with Raptr to optimize game settings for Iris graphics
GDC — As a sort of response to Nvidia's GeForce Experience software, AMD not long ago started bundling an application called Raptr with its Catalyst graphics drivers. Now, the folks at Ratpr haved added another big partner to their stable: Intel, whose graphics solutions ship in hundreds of millions PCs every year.
Ratpr, the product of a start-up firm headed by gaming celebrity Dennis "Thresh" Fong, recommends optimized settings for PC games by crowd-sourcing data from its user base. For the Intel collaboration, Raptr will use Intel's own internally generated recommendations as a starting point and ...
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Socketed Intel desktop Broadwell coming mid-year
GDC — In a press conference at the Game Developers Conference in San Franscisco today, Intel offered a few new details about its plans for a desktop version of its 14-nm Broadwell CPUs. The firm plans to release a socketed version of Broadwell in the middle of this year, and this CPU will play to Broadwell's strengths by offering Iris Pro graphics and fitting into a tidy 65W power envelope.
As you can imagine, Intel expects this processor to play well in ...
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Microsoft announces PC wireless adapter for Xbox One controller
If you're tired of connecting your Xbox One controller to your PC with a USB cable, relief is on the way. WinBeta reports that Microsoft announced a PC wireless adapter for the controller at its Xbox GDC event today.
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Nvidia demos new Titan X graphics card at GDC
Jen-Hsun Huang is quite the character. During Epic's State of Unreal Engine presentation with Tim Sweeney, the Nvidia CEO hopped onstage to answer Sweeney's call for more powerful GPUs. Hidden under his arm, in a balled-up jacket, was Nvidia's next uber graphics card, the Titan X.
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Valve's Source 2 engine will be free, too
Epic recently made Unreal Engine 4 free for everyone, and Unity 5 is taking a similar approach with small developers. Now, Valve has revealed that its next-gen game engine is joining the party. In a press release posted at Steam Database, the firm says it "will be making Source 2 available for free to content developers."
There's no mention of whether the freebie will have royalties attached. However, Valve adds that a Vulkan -compatible version ...
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FREAK vulnerability exploits old encryption export restrictions
To understand the latest security problem facing the web today, we have to use the DeLorean and return to the 1990s. It was a different time. Gasoline was cheaper, we were all trying to figure out exactly what Kurt Cobain was singing, and the NSA controlled the export of encryption from the U.S.
As one might expect, the NSA controlling encryption exports was a contentious issue. The agency had no particular interest in helping anyone outside of the U.S. actually secure their communications. It created a split world in which American citizens had access to better encryption ciphers, such as SSL with 1024-bit asymmetric encryption and 128-bit symmetric encryption. The rest of the world, meanwhile, was only eligible for encryption ...
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Zotac's Steam Machine is ready to power your living room
Despite a long series of delays, Valve is still finding partners for its Steam Machine hardware initiative. One of the latest entrants is Zotac, whose Steam Machine SN970 packs what looks like some potent hardware into a form factor similar to a bigger Zbox. Have a look:
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BitTorrent Sync exits beta, offers free private cloud storage
Cloud-based storage makes it easy to share files between multiple users and devices, but what if you don't trust third-party servers with your data? One option is Sync, a private cloud system from the people behind the BitTorrent file-sharing protocol. In development for over two years, Sync can share files across a wide range of PC, mobile, and NAS platforms. The latest iteration, version 2.0, finally delivers what BitTorrent Sync VP Erik Pounds describes as a "final product" devoid of beta branding.
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Valve's $50 Steam Link looks like a Chromecast for games
Valve's bid for the living room includes more than just standalone Steam Machines. At the Game Developers Conference yesterday, the firm announced Steam Link, a $49.99 device designed to stream games from local PCs.
According to the press release posted by Steam Database , the device supports 1080p streaming at up to 60 frames per second. Valve promises low latency, though the official product page (which has since ...
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