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Microsoft Flight Simulator Releases a New ‘In-Engine’ Video
I will happily admit that I am something of a border-line geek when it comes to airplanes. Oh, don’t get me wrong, I know very little about them. That has, however, never stopped me from occasionally hopping into a flight simulator game just to see if I can get my…
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Telltale Games Reportedly Drop Their Gaming Engine For Unity
Telltale Games Reportedly Finally Ditches Their Old Gaming Engine Since their inception in 2004, one of Telltale‘s biggest successes, if we look past the games, in their story-telling engine. It might sound amazing, but since their Sam and Max game in 2005, Telltale has largely continued to use that exact…
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Friday the 13th Game To Get Engine Update
Friday the 13th To Get Update With Engine Upgrade At a time when Dead By Daylight was winning over fans with its teamplay survival against a roster of playable killers, Friday the 13th was announced. With the development team able to secure Jason Vorhees as a playable killer, some fans…
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Amazon Lumberyard Engine Source Code on GitHub
Amazon Lumberyard Engine Good news for games developers today, and hopefully for gamers too in the long run. Amazon has revealed that the source code for their Lumberyard Engine is now available on GitHub. This is an interesting move, and it means that developers can really dive into everything that…
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Next-Gen id Tech Engine to “Consume All The CPU That Ryzen Can Offer.”
id Software is one of the most iconic developers of all time, and while they’ve had many great gaming successes, they’ve also won much praise for their game engine technologies over the years too. id Software CTO, Robert Duffy, recently revealed that their team has already begun work on the…
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Epic Games Demo Unreal Engine 4 With Photorealistic Character Sample
We all know that modern gaming engines, as well as modern graphics cards, are incredibly powerful, but it never hurts to show off just how powerful they can be from time to time. Epic Games has released a stunning demo that shows off Unreal Engine 4, not only can you…
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Unity 5.6 Released: Improved Performance and Vulkan API Support
Unity Technologies has released the latest update for Unity 5, bringing it up to version 5.6 and adding a range of cool new features, performance improvements, and even support for a new graphics API. The changelog isn’t huge, but with improvements to performance, lighting, text rendering, and Vulkan support, and improved…
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NASA Demonstrates Mars Rocket Test in 360-Degree Video
NASA has long discovered YouTube and other social medias and they’re using the quite a lot. A new video released is quite different and interesting as it is a 360-degree video of a hot-fire test of the main RS-25 engine. The Space Launch System is being designed to send humans to Mars for…
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Counter-Strike dust2 Map Recreated in CryEngine Looks Incredible
We love our PC games here at eTeknix, and we love it even more when fan made projects like this crop up and inspire us at how diverse and capable the PC gaming community can be. TekVoL has recreated the iconic dust2 map from Counter-Strike in CryEngine, and while it’s…
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SpaceX Makes First Test-Fire of Interplanetary Raptor Engine
While Elon Musk is set to deliver a keynote tomorrow at the 67th annual International Astronautical Congress tomorrow, outlining his plans to colonize Mars (and even beyond), SpaceX are far from idle. As a show of just how far the company is with it’s plans to realize interplanetary travel, Musk…
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Be Warned About Snoopers with the Introspection Engine
When you pick up your phone, you can have anyone from your work to your friends and children talking to you from miles or even countries away. The problem is that you often don’t have the reassurance that they are the only ones listening into your call. This was made…
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Who Needs A Smart Car When You Can Have A Smart Go-Kart?
In this day and age, we are adding technology to anything and everything we can get our hands on, one of the most accepted uses of technology is in our homes. The Nest system is designed to create a connected network of thermostats and smoke detectors, but one of Nests…
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You Wont Find Tech Support Ads on Bing Anymore!
We’ve all had that fear when our system starts doing something we didn’t expect it, from a popup on your desktop or an unknown program opening on your system, the problems are often not the first time they’ve occurred. The first instinct of many, if they are able, is to…
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NVIDIA Creates World’s First Acoustically-Based Physics Engine
Another really fascinating announcement from NVIDIA’s press briefing today revolves around VRWORKS and the development of path traced audio. According to NVIDIA, this is the world’s first acoustically-based physics engine and works alongside the optics API to revolutionise the way we all enjoy VR content. This huge update allows haptic…
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