Alan Wake: Remedy’s American dream
How the Finnish developer changed the world for the sake of a good story.
1Graphics
Unreal Engine gets true stereoscopic 3D
RealD says its tech, now available for free to all UDK users, is "different than anything you've ever seen before."
Sumo: racing genre needs new hardware
Ex-Bizarre Creations lead Gareth Wilson recalls press reaction to PGR3 and says new consoles are required to rescue an ailing genre.
4Nvidia planning Kepler-powered smartphones
Nvidia plans to bring its powerful new Kepler technology to smartphones in future, according to internal email. "Today is just the beginning of Kepler," writes Nvidia boss Jensen H Huang in a congratulatory email to staff. "Because of its super energy-efficient architecture, we will extend GPUs into datacenters, to super thin notebooks, to superphones." More >
Mirror's Edge: Building the impossible
Dear Esther environment artist Rob Briscoe remembers the origins, pitfalls and potential in co-creating DICE’s flawed gem.
5The Untouchables: Halo - Combat Evolved
It redefined the firstperson shooter, but is Bungie's masterpiece really bulletproof?
6John Romero's love letter to Karateka
The year's 1985, fighting game Karateka - which Mechner is currently remaking - is live and kicking on screens all over America. It captured the heart and imagination of one aspiring young game developer - John Romero. More >
1This week's opportunities on Edge Jobs
Find your future working for Gameloft in Madrid, on Magic: The Gathering at Stainless or with DICE in Stockholm.
This week's opportunities on Edge Jobs
Find your future working on DICE's Frostbite engine, a new Sony PS3 game or coding MMOGs for Massive.
The future of 3D engines
As more devices become capable of displaying 3D graphics, how are engine makers facing up to the challenge?
AMD, Nvidia blame hard drives for GPU sales
AMD and Nvidia have both blamed a worldwide shortage of hard disk drives for a decline in sales of their graphics processors. The Verge reports that Nvidia fell short of revenue projections by $116 million due to the shortage. Another contributing factor was the decline of its Tegra 2 processor as focus shifts to its successor, Tegra 3. AMD said during an investor call that it was feeling "a little bit of pressure in terms of hard disks." More >
Intel caught passing off video as realtime gameplay demo
An Intel executive was caught trying to pass off a video as a realtime demo of Intel's Ivy Bridge processor's graphical capabilities at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. Semi Accurate reports that Mooly Eden, general manager of Intel's PC client group, claimed he was playing a game running in DirectX 11 on an Ivy Bridge CPU, but was exposed when, shortly after the demo began, the control panel for PC media player VLC briefly appeared at the bottom of the screen. More >
3The 2011 Edge Awards: visual
Child Of Eden, Battlefield 3 and Uncharted 3: Drake's Deception vie for best visual design.
New light shed on next Bungie engine
Use of Umbra middleware adds weight to rumours that former Halo dev is working on an MMOG.
1Remastering the past
Bluepoint Games tells us why it takes more than just a few extra pixels to remake classic games in HD.
Now recruiting on Edge Jobs
Find your future working on a new Codemasters title, building Crytek's powerful tech or crafting the look of Massive's output.
David Braben on Raspberry Pi
Frontier Developments' head on fostering a new generation of game makers.
1LGC 2011: OnLive repositions itself as a dev platform
CTO Tom Paquin highlights the development opportunities of cloud gaming, saying: "The best things to happen on OnLive won't come from OnLive."
Nvidia launches Tegra 3
Nvidia has launched its Tegra 3 processor, which boasts better graphics performance and lower power consumption than its predecessor, and makes console-quality graphics possible on mobile devices. Tegra 3 offers three times the graphics performance, and a reduction of 61 per cent in battery consumption, compared to Tegra 2. The key technology is the patent-pending Variable Symmetric Multiprocessing, which offloads low-consumption processes to a fifth "companion" core of the processor, shutting down the four high-performance cores entirely. More >
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Find your future at Funcom, Crytek or core x group.