There's not really a lot you can say on Batman: Arkham Asylum that hasn't yet crossed the globe a few times. It is the best comic book-inspired video up to date – and even has a world record to prove it – and it's a very good game on its own as well. The title managed to combine the stealth... |
17 October 2009
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Nvidia has put a lot of effort into making the PhysX technology a top competitive one. Its GeForce 8, 9 and GTX 200 Series cards feature PhysX support, and the company has also released the drivers that are supposed to enable the physics on the graphics cards. The green company has tried to make the performance level... |
13 August 2008
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Nvidia's acquisition of Ageia earlier this year was a smart move aimed at bring particle acceleration in its mid-range / high-end graphics cards. Nvidia now plans to make the PhysX API available independently of another acceleration hardware card. As previously reported, the graphics specialist announced that it... |
16 April 2008
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Nvidia announced that it has almost completed the conversion of the Ageia physics engine to CUDA. The graphics expert even managed to run a particle demo that is somewhat similar to the fire test Intel ran on a Nehalem test shuttle earlier this month.Nvidia took Intel's offensive seriously and is currently close... |
14 April 2008
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The acquisition of the physics processing units manufacturer (PPU) Ageia seems to have been not only an inspired choice, but also extremely easy for the graphics chips expert Nvidia. Nine days after having giving the news to the media, the GPU giant has announced the completion of Ageia buyout.The PPU market is a nic... |
14 February 2008
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Although Nvidia purchased physics hardware manufacturer Ageia Technologies, it may not discontinue the dedicated solutions the latter used to produce until now. According to Ageia representatives, Nvidia is considering to launch more dedicated PhysX accelerator add-in cards, rather than to merge it on Nvidia's g... |
7 February 2008
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Graphics expert Nvidia has just announced that it struck a deal with physics processing company Ageia, in order to integrate the physics processing engine in Nvidia's future generations of graphics cards. Two weeks ago, I have informed you that a deal was in progress, although both Nvidia and Ageia dismissed the... |
5 February 2008
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There are many top games that are using the PhysX software on PS3s, Xbox 360s and PCs and the users seem to be around 10,000. These alone are good enough proofs to suggest that Ageia would be a great acquisition - and Nvidia seems to believe the same thing, since they have announced that they will acquire the PhysX d... |
5 February 2008
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Ageia Technologies, the developer of world's first physics processing units (PPUs) had to deny the allegations that it has been taken over, for the second time in less than half a year. The declaration comes shortly after rumors regarding a potential buyout started to break out on the forums.Ageia spokespersons ... |
24 January 2008
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The rumors we have already been talking about seem to have reached the target. It is very likely that simple words, once laid down even digitally, get a contractual value. This might have been a little scary for the AMD monster who quickly decided to draw it all back. Or this could be as well seen as divulging corpor... |
23 November 2007
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Two free exclusive maps for Unreal Tournament 3 have been released today by Ageia Technologies, along with the PhysX Mod-Kid, which will allow the modders to customize the game as they see fit.The two new maps released, "Tornado" and "LightHouse", show us many of the things PhysX can do. The Tornado Mod brings a new ... |
22 November 2007
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The chess game played by Intel and AMD has extended not only over the x86 processor market, but also in the video and gaming sectors. Back in September, Intel finished the Havok takeover, fisting the entire gaming industry under the belt. AMD considered that it would be time to send the heavy artillery back on the ba... |
22 November 2007
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AGEIA is a well known company among the gamers, game development firms and hardware manufacturers communities that introduced some time ago a revolutionary processor dedicated to complex calculations that could make computer games feel more real. Unfortunately, the hardware support for such calculations already exist... |
22 August 2007
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