This week Valve hosted the Steam Developer Days in Seattle, where game creators got hands-on time with the Steam Machines and Valve's innovative new controller, while lectures covered topics as ...

One of the biggest pitfalls of portable gaming machines is their relative lack of portability; even if you can put up with the bulk of a gaming laptop, discrete graphics cards don't sip power -- they ...

** Yes, yes, we've all seen the benchmarks from Valve. It's one data point from one company's single engine, and the comparison is between not just APIs but implementations; it's entirely possible ...

OpenGL was an essential part of 3D gaming in the 1990s when Direct3D lacked advanced features and GLide only worked on 3dfx cards, but Direct3D is now reigning supreme in the world of PC graphics APIs ...

AMD’s Mantle 1.0 is indeed dead, but like a Jedi, it looks to have risen in the form of the Kronos Group’s new open standard, cross-platform Vulkan API (but without Obi Wan’s weird blue glow). As I ...

Recently, you may have noticed an ever-present flow of stories surrounding OpenGL and OpenGL ES successor Vulkan, a new low-level API from non-profit consortium the Kronos Group. Most notably, we ...

At Siggraph 2014, the Khronos Group has announced both OpenGL 4.5 and, more excitingly, the Next Generation OpenGL Initiative. OpenGL 4.5, except for some new Direct3D 11 emulation features for easier ...

Serving tech enthusiasts for over 25 years. TechSpot means tech analysis and advice you can trust. After serving as the standard since shortly after its release in 1992, Silicon Graphics' OpenGL API ...

If you’re planning to develop a game engine or other Java software that needs 3D graphics, consider using Java Binding for OpenGL (JOGL). This low-level Java API acts as a bridge to the underlying ...