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Football Manager 2009 demo is available now

Brenda Stokes, Nov 3rd 2008 Discuss [1]

If you're big into video games but not so much into simulations, you'll probably love the newest PC game, Football Manager 2009. With a demo now available from Sports Interactive, you can take on the role of a soccer team manager. Read The Full Story

NVIDIA demo GPU-based Interactive Ray Tracing

Chris Davies, Aug 15th 2008 Discuss [1]

NVIDIA is demonstrating its latest efforts in interactive ray tracing at SIGGRAPH 2008, using four next-generation Quadro GPUs in an NVIDIA Quadro Plex 2100 D4 Visual Computing System to show linear scaling during rendering of a complex, two-million polygon, anti-aliased automotive styling application. The images here are taken from the demo, which managed 30fps 1920 x 1080 High Definition video for an image-based lighting paint shader, ray traced shadows, reflections and refractions. Read The Full Story

USB 3.0 demo coming as early as next week

Brenda Stokes, Aug 14th 2008 Discuss [0]

Intel's xHCI is set to debut with USB 3.0 and will most likely appear at IDF in San Francisco next week. This puts to rest the idea that Intel would be withholding the specs for USB 3.0. xHCI "provides hardware component designers, system builders and device driver developers with a description of the hardware/software interface between system software and the host controller hardware for USB 3.0 and USB 2.0 (previous versions are not supported)." Read The Full Story

Danger Planet demo released

Emily Price, Aug 11th 2008 Discuss [0]

A new demo has been released for the upcoming Fantasy Labs title Danger Planet. The third person action adventure game uses a new technology called RadiumSDK which allows global illumination to be added by developers to real-time 3D applications. Read The Full Story

Star Wars: The Force Unleashed demo coming next month

Chris Scott Barr, Jul 30th 2008 Discuss [0]

One of the games I'm looking forward to the most this year is Star Wars: The Force Unleashed. Thankfully it seems that we'll only need to wait until August to get our first real hands-on look at the title, as LucasArts recently announced that the demo will be coming next month. Read The Full Story

Intel demo MID remote server ‘Second Life’ gaming

Chris Davies, Jun 11th 2008 Discuss [0]

Intel are working on a new client/server model for their Mobile Internet Device (MID) platform, which would take advantage of high-speed wireless networking to make up for the relatively low-power processors fitted to the touchscreen devices themselves. Demonstrating the system with a mobile Second Lifeapp, Intel's solution is to host its own servers on which the heavy processing work is done, funneling the data through 3G or WiMAX-style connections to the MID. Video demo after the cut Read The Full Story

Lego Indiana Jones demo now available

Chris Scott Barr, May 14th 2008 Discuss [0]

Last night I decided that I needed to pick up the new Indiana Jones Special Edition DVDs. Upon looking at the box I realized that the demo for the new Lego-themed game had been released. Naturally I popped in the DVD and fired it up to get some demo action. Read The Full Story