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A comparison of gaming engines

January 30th, 2005 Chris No comments

Found a great technical comparison between Half-Life 2′s Source engine and Doom 3′s engine for all who are curious. And the winner is…

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Playstation 3 Cell Architecture explained

January 21st, 2005 Chris No comments

I’m not a console gamer, but if this article is any indication, the traditional x86 processor may well have a new, fierce competitor coming soon. A snippet from the article:

I for one quite like the idea of watching “Contact” on my TV while a PS3 sits in the background churning through a SETI@home [SETI] unit every 5 minutes. If you know how long a SETI unit takes your jaw should have just hit the floor, suffice to say, Cells are very, very fast [SETI Calc].

Yowsa… The goods (in the form of a 5 part article) are here.

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