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Elite Dangerous creator Frontier Developments says it has no plans to make games for anyone else ever again. The firm, who has made games for the likes of Microsoft, Atari and Amazon, is readying the release of Planet Coaster – a game it considers its second self-published franchise (after Elite). …
Read More »Nvidia GTX 1080 could be unveiled next week
The next generation of Pascal-based Nvidia graphics cards could at last be revealed at an Nvidia event next week. WCCF Tech reports that a shipping manifest for the Nvidia GPU Technology Conference Keynote on April 4th lists four new SKUs, one of which is certainly either the GTX 1080 or …
Read More »Coder exploits Steamworks loophole to release unverified game
Ruby Nealon snuck Watch Paint Dry onto Steam store after his warnings about virtual backdoor went ignored by Valve
Read More »Web developer sneaks game onto Steam without Valve’s permission
An English web developer going by the name Ruby has successfully uploaded a game to Steam, without Valve’s permission, to illustrate a security loophole. The game, if you can call it that, was called Watch Paint Dry. It was a spoof title, really, and has since been removed by Valve. …
Read More »How to optimize your Java Code in Android Marshmallow
Intel Developer Blog: What the latest Android update means for devs
Read More »Bleszinski’s LawBreakers is no longer free-to-play
Developer Cliff Belszinski has said that his next shooter will not be a free-to-play title after all. LawBreakers was announced last year. But despite some positive noises about the payment model to begin with, Bleszinski has said that the negative reaction to F2P has led to change of heart. "We …
Read More »How to integrate movement-tracking into your Android apps with Intel RealSense
Intel Developer Blog: RealSense Smartphone Developer Kit's cursor mode can track hand movements in 2D or 3D at twice the speed of full hand tracking
Read More »AMD shows off wireless all-in-one VR headset
Newcomer to increasingly popular sector puts the processing power inside the headset, doing away with two of VR’s main gripes
Read More »AMD’s Sulon Q offers wire, PC and console free all-in-one VR
There’s a new virtual reality headset on the block that looks to address two of the key problems with most VR headsets. The AMD Sulon Q is an all-in-one solution that is not only wire-free, but also does not require users to plus it into a PC or console. There’s …
Read More »AMD’s Radeon Pro Duo offers unrivalled VR graphics power
The battle to be the world’s most powerful graphics card is always shifting, and today a new beast sits on the throne. It’s called the Radeon Pro Duo, the unit houses two Fiji GPUs, amounting to 16 teraflops of computer performance and 8GB of on board RAM. Also included is …
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