June 2013 – The aftermarket for higher design and performance controllers is growing with the launch of the new platforms in 2013. New lower latency devices for interfacing to the PC, Xbox 360 and PS3 were plentiful. We also saw next generation of console accessories for the Xbox One and PS4 as well as for…
March 2013 – At GDC 2013 in San Francisco, we visited with Three Ring Studios, which has been producing games for Sega since 2001. In 2003, they launched their premier game Puzzle Pirates. This game is an MMO RPG that is playable on PC/Mac and Linux systems. The game has recently been ported to iOS…
April 19-20, 2013 – Continuing the global expansion of gaming and game development, we visited the Digital Dragons 2013 European Games Festival held in Krakow, Poland. The electronic games market is the fastest growing sector in the entertainment industry and is expected to reach 60 billion euro in 2015 (IDATE prediction). Poland has been getting…
March 2013 – At GDC 2013, we met with Stefano Corazza CEO of Maxiamo (http://www.mixamo.com/ ) which has brought a new dimension to character design and rigging to the game development community. Their cloud based service utilizes standard and custom 3D character generation complete with rigging for motion, going into the games and animation. Starting…
March 2013 – At GDC 2013 in San Francisco, we met with Geometrics to see their new lighting middleware that is designed for users of the Unreal Engine V4 (UE4) and their own graphics/rendering engine.. The middleware which is currently available on the Unreal Engine V3 (UE3) has been around for over 5 years. The…
February 2013 – This years Solid State Circuit conference featured a processor session that was focusing on increasing cache size and more cores at low power. The rise in data size being handled by these units, has driven the systems to explore new architectures that are much more throughput oriented rather than MIPS/GFLOPs oriented. This…
April 2013 – In the content creation world, the transmedia market is now opening up the development to professionals working on projects that are sharing both files and completed content assets. One of these areas of convergent is the gaming and broadcast industry. We had the opportunity to meet with Content Creation Specialty VAR ALT…
February 2013 – At the RSA conference, Tilera was showing their 3rd generation programmable product the GX72. This is a 72 tile core that is an addition to the existing GX36 36 core array. The GX36 is a staple of the high throughput community providing 40G I/Os next to high performance computing and access to…
Most of us in the Entertainment business are well-aware of the need to secure our personal information and intellectual property. It may not be as fun as trip to the mountains or a new guitar, but we recognize the value of security technologies to our work, our financial and our personal lives… but we don’t…