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Oct 30 2007

Tweaking the Crysis SinglePlayer PC demo

Now that the so expected Crysis SP demo is available , I've already finished it but, until the game cames out, I'll replay and fine-tune it as much as possible. Being one of the big "Vista & DirectX 10" showcases, I was eager to...
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Oct 21 2007

Gamefest 2007 presentations fully available

After some delays we finally can download the full archive of presentations from the XNA Gamefest 2007 Microsoft event. There are a lot of them, covering all aspects of XBox 360, Windows and XNA development, so you should start downloading them right...
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Mar 24 2007

An excellent article about Windows Vista

I've finished reading an interesting article about Windows Vista , interesting because is oriented for technical people (IT, developers and advanced users). It's the first article of three that will be published, but gives a good overview of some of the...
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Mar 13 2007

Doing some PR about Jade

Yesterday I officially came back to Jad Engine as an active developer. Vicente and I had a meeting with the other developers and they discussed about what the future 1.2 release will have. Although it is early to talk about that, the 1.1 is actually in...
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Mar 05 2007

XNA Creators Club Online

The online community site for XNA Creators Club is finally online ! Apart from the content that will be available for the premium club members, the website contains this for everyone who registers: Tutorials and video tutorials Some samples, like skinning...
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Feb 28 2007

Slides and sources of my Managed DirectX and XNA speeches uploaded

I've uploaded to the Downloads section all the speeches I've given about Managed DirectX and XNA. I hope to increase the number soon ;) With the help of wireless speakers and an hdmi cable you can accentuate the effects of your home theater ,...
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Feb 26 2007

XNA: Skeletal Bone Animation & Skinning with Collada models article

Benjamin Nitschke has posted a fantastic XNA tutorial about skeletal bone animation and skinning using Collada models, which allow for complex animations exported as XML that DirectX .X files can't handle. As I haven't read all yet (it's quite large ...
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Feb 19 2007

NVidia releases new compiler and OpenGL specifications

NVidia has just released CUDA, a new special compiler that has C extensions to program the GPU. This allows a high-level direct programming of the GPU, using it almost as a coprocessor. The approach is different from ATI's CTM (which provides a low-level...
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Feb 14 2007

The Vista gaming experience

Lately, with the public launch of Windows Vista, there are some bluffs about the new operating system. I'm going to focus on one: The " Vista is quite bad for gaming ", aka " NVidia on Vista sucks ". Benchmarks are benchmarks , so it's true that Vista...
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Feb 11 2007

Game Developer Magazine january 2007 issue

For anyone interested in game development, Game Developer Magazine is maybe the best printed (and digital) publication avaliable. I would subscribe myself to it if I had enough time for game development, but not having it, I have to think about it. Anyway...
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