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GDC 2015: Nvidia announces Titan X, the ‘most advanced GPU’ ever built

By Hugh Langley Nvidia decided an Unreal presentation at GDC 2015 was the perfect place to announce its new Titan X graphics card, what it calls the world’s most advanced GPU ever. Nvidia CEO Jen-Husn Huang took to the stage to announce the new card, which packs in 12 GB of RAM and 8 billion…

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GDC 2015: Nvidia announces Titan X, the ‘most advanced GPU’ ever built

By Hugh Langley Nvidia decided an Unreal presentation at GDC 2015 was the perfect place to announce its new Titan X graphics card, what it calls the world’s most advanced GPU ever. Nvidia CEO Jen-Husn Huang took to the stage to announce the new card, which packs in 12 GB of RAM and 8 billion…

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GDC 2015: Nvidia’s Grid will stream 1080p 60fps games to your living room

By Hugh Langley Nvidia’s Grid service isn’t new, but the company has now made it more properly official with the announcement that it’ll be making the service subscribable this May for its Shield set-top box. For that you’ll get 1080p 60fps games streamed straight from the cloud to your living room device. A wide library…

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GDC 2015: Nvidia’s Grid will stream 1080p 60fps games to your living room

By Hugh Langley Nvidia’s Grid service isn’t new, but the company has now made it more properly official with the announcement that it’ll be making the service subscribable this May for its Shield set-top box. For that you’ll get 1080p 60fps games streamed straight from the cloud to your living room device. A wide library…

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Breaking: Nvidia Shield is both a console and the world’s first 4K Android TV

By Hugh Langley Nvidia has been teasing a product that’s been years in the making, and now we know what it is – a hub that’s going to become the centrepiece of your living room. Named the Nvidia Shield, the box will sit next to your TV and, running on Android, will offer high-end gaming…

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GDC 2015: PS4 sales top 20 million, Sony reveals at GDC

By Michael Rougeau Sony announced at GDC 2015 that it’s sold 20.2 million PS4 consoles worldwide as of this month. That doesn’t 100% clear up who’s winning between Sony’s PlayStation 4 and Microsoft’s Xbox One, since the most recent official Xbox One numbers came from last November, when Microsoft had shipped 10 million of the…

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GDC 2015: PS4 sales top 20 million, Sony reveals at GDC

By Michael Rougeau Sony announced at GDC 2015 that it’s sold 20.2 million PS4 consoles worldwide as of this month. That doesn’t 100% clear up who’s winning between Sony’s PlayStation 4 and Microsoft’s Xbox One, since the most recent official Xbox One numbers came from last November, when Microsoft had shipped 10 million of the…

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GDC 2015: Valve just announced its plans for Steam Machines… and Source 2

By Hugh Langley We’ve been expecting big things from Valve at GDC 2015, and it’s just delivered the motherload. First, fulfilling its promise from months ago, it announced its plans for the long-overdue Steam Machines. They’ll be launching in the fall, but Valve is releasing a device called Steam Link, a $50 (about £32, $64)…

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GDC 2015: Valve just announced its plans for Steam Machines… and Source 2

By Hugh Langley We’ve been expecting big things from Valve at GDC 2015, and it’s just delivered the motherload. First, fulfilling its promise from months ago, it announced its plans for the long-overdue Steam Machines. They’ll be launching in the fall, but Valve is releasing a device called Steam Link, a $50 (about £32, $64)…

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Money Games: Video games were big business in 2014

By Joel Burgess Video games are big business, and are getting bigger every year. In 2014, $2.46 billion worth of games were sold in Australia. That’s an increase of 20 per cent over the previous year, according to research from the Interactive Games & Entertainment Association (IGEA). The biggest shift is a 40 per cent…

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GDC 2015: AMD to help developers make better virtual reality with LiquidVR

By Michael Rougeau AMD, too, is dipping a toe into virtual reality, the company announced today at GDC 2015 – but thankfully not with yet another VR headset. Instead, the component maker’s VR initiative involves a development kit called LiquidVR, which it hopes will enable developers to make better virtual reality on AMD hardware. AMD…

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GDC 2015: AMD LiquidVR aims to make better virtual reality … on AMD hardware

By Michael Rougeau AMD, too, is dipping a toe into virtual reality, the company announced today at GDC 2015 – but thankfully not with yet another VR headset. Instead, the component maker’s VR initiative involves a development kit called LiquidVR, which it hopes will enable developers to make better virtual reality on AMD hardware. AMD…

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Early Valve partner announces slew of new Steam Machines

By Michael Rougeau Syber, a division of CyberPowerPC, introduced a slew of new Steam Machines today at GDC 2015. CyberPowerPC was one of Valve’s early Steam Machine partners, announced way back in January 2014. The Galaxy S6 is finally here At the time the company only had one Steam Machine (granted, with multiple customizable loadouts)…

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GDC 2015: Steam Machines set to launch late 2015 as Valve partner reveals new hardware

By Michael Rougeau Syber, a division of CyberPowerPC, introduced a slew of new Steam Machines today at GDC 2015. CyberPowerPC was one of Valve’s early Steam Machine partners, announced way back in January 2014. The Galaxy S6 is finally here At the time the company only had one Steam Machine (granted, with multiple customizable loadouts)…

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GDC 2015: Amazon’s next game console doesn’t even have a screen

By Hugh Langley Late last year, Amazon launched Echo, its voice-controlled speaker with attitude. Although it looks like little more than a futuristic cylinder, Echo can answer questions or perform tasks by being spoken to. Now Amazon wants you to play games on it. Speaking at GDC 2015, Amazon Developer Evangelist David Isbitski invited developers…

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