Medal of Honor by Electronic Arts, a major game developer based in Redwood City, Calif., hits stores Oct. 12. Gamers are scoffing at the decision, saying that advanced technology has made it commonplace in the gaming world to let players switch sides and play the bad guy.
After years of being called vaporware and a Shakespearean development story, Duke Nukem Forever is finally being released.
Gaussian blur is an image space effect that is used to create a softly blurred version of the original image. This image then can be used by more sophisticated algorithms to produce effects like bloom, depth-of-field, heat haze or fuzzy glass. In this article I will present how to take ...
Miniaturisation 1, Repairability 0 The gadget take-apart guys at iFixit.com rate Apple's latest generation of iPod Shuffle at two out ten when evaluating the ease with which the device can be repaired.…
Five thousand fixes in three weeks In the three weeks following its offer to replace the batteries in overheating first-generation iPod nanos, Apple Japan swapped out a total of 4,994 suspect cells.…
Philip Rideout posted an overview of tessellation shaders (with demo code) at The Little Grasshopper.
Extending our free tutorial on Stereoscopic rendering in OpenGL, Binocularity.org has added a C++ version of our software alongside the existing Python download. Detailed instructions for compiling and running the software on a Windows PC are included. This new download supports anaglyph and shutter glasses modes for viewing the output ...
GLFW is a portable library for OpenGL application development. It manages windows and OpenGL contexts, resolution switching, keyboard, mouse, joystick and time input, and more. Version 2.7 brings many bug fixes, build system updates and several new features, most notably explicit support for OpenGL 3.2 and later and a new ...
Google has revamped its logo for yet another special occasion -- this time, its name is made out of a flock of colored balls that bounce away from the cursor when a visitor comes to the Google search page.
Oracle Corp. has announced that former Hewlett-Packard Co. CEO Mark Hurd is joining the database software maker as co-president. Oracle said in a statement Monday that Hurd will also serve as a member of the board of directors. He will report to CEO Larry Ellison.