News about the game Armagetron Advanced

The game Armagetron Advanced ports that part of the movie in the 3D game. The game can be play locally against the computer or human players. The multiplayer features gives you both LAN and Internet multiplayer options. Also you can play up to 16 players in multiplayer. You can read more about this game in this article here.

Update game : 0 A.D. Alpha 9 Ides of March

Wildfire Games, an international group of volunteer game developers, proudly announces the release of "0 A.D. Alpha 9 Ides of March", the ninth alpha version of 0 A.D., a free, open-source game of ancient warfare. This alpha debuts the Roman faction, new combat and trade systems and more.

Top new features in this release:

• The Roman Republic faction, playable on custom scenarios and random map scripts--in single player and multiplayer, complete with a new art set, including new buildings, units, and ships.
  
• A new combat system that adds bonuses and weaknesses to each unit, like rock-paper-scissors (e.g. spearmen defeat melee cavalry, but are countered by skirmishers and cavalry archers).
  
• A brand new trading system, over land with traders trained from markets, and over sea with merchant ships built at the dock. Establish a trade route between two markets or docks, and your traders will gain resources for every trip made. You can choose which resource will be gained by a trader.
  
• Over a dozen new random map scripts by Spahbod, wraitii, and mmayfield45.
  
• New animations: Rowing oars for ships, rams, some catapults, traders, some animals.
  
• AI improvements: 0 A.D.'s default AI, qBot, has had a performance increase and had a serious bug fixed with the attack code.

Heaven DX11 Benchmark is Back

UNIGINE Corp. released today an improved version (3.0) of its renown Heaven DX11 Benchmark based on its proprietary UNIGINE™ engine. Great looking as ever and containing many technical improvements, it now runs on Mac and supports for variety of new hardware, including extended support for multi-monitor configurations.

"It's very inspiring that more and more hardware testing professionals as well as tech enthusiasts find Heaven Benchmark useful. Our technology platform is constantly growing and we can bring Heaven Benchmark to new platforms and new hardware", said Denis Shergin, CEO of UNIGINE Corp.

What's New? Added Mac OS X version compatible with 10.7+ (no tessellation). Added support for Intel HD 3000 GPU (no tessellation). Improved support for multi-monitor configurations. Added support for NVIDIA 3D Surround (multi-monitor stereo 3D). Enhanced NVIDIA 3D Vision support. New cross-platform launcher without .NET dependencies. Fixed Phoronix Test Suite compatibility issue. Fixed minor visual artifacts. Improved compatibility with Mesa drivers. Improved detection of new GPUs.

Read more here.

Microsoft come with the new 3D desktop concept

Microsoft showing us a new 3D desktop concept which uses Kinect functionality. This is very pretty feature , I like very much. Let's see next video where is showing us this concept. Although the screen is 3D a normal, also one normal keyboard is used for typing and a Kinect sensor. Very simple way to make your desktop an Stargate display. Pretty cool.

BlenderArt Magazine - an inspiration for 3D graphics.

   I watched the magazine since the beginning of her appearance. It seems that the two editors Sandra Gilbert and Gaurav Nawani, have managed to maintain a high level for users of Blender 3D. I'm impressed by the work of them.

What is this magazine ? See bellow:
  "The magazine was started for the blender community, having the aim of publishing a bi-monthly PDF magazine; free for download. The goal of the magazine is to provide quality learning content for the blender community, from the efforts of the community itself. BlenderArt Magazine is released 

under the Creative Commons Attribution-NoDerivs 2.5 license."

 

Below you can find the titles and links required to read magazine.

ISSUE 35: Character Building!

September 2011 /// 49 PGS - 9.3 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 34: Rigs, Add-ons and More!

July 2011 /// 36 PGS - 6 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 33: Everything but the Kitchen Sink

May 2011 /// 50 PGS - 7.4 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 32: Spring is Sprung

March 2011 /// 50 PGS - 5.5 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 31: Under The Microscope

December 2010 /// 30 PGS - 23.4 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 30: Once Upon An Image

October 2010 /// 53 PGS - 16.1 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 29: Industrial Revolution

August 2010 /// 46 PGS - 6.7 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 28: Blender 2.5

June 2010 /// 49 PGS - 3.2 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 27: Shadow Showdown

April 2010 /// 41 PGS - 6.5 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 26: Blender & Gaming

February 2010 /// 46 PGS - 5.2 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 25: Winter Wonderland

December 2009 /// 44 PGS - 31.2 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 24: From out of the deep

October 2009 /// 42 PGS - 7.4 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 23: Epic Fantasy

August 2009 /// 38 PGS - 8 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 22: Things that go bump in the night!

June 2009 /// 48 PGS - 7.5 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 21: Look What I Can Do!

April 2009 /// 95 PGS - 15 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 20: Make it! Bake it! Fake it!

February 2009 /// 41 PGS - 5.9 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 19: Rigging & Constraints

December 2008 /// 59 PGS - 8.2 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 18: Landscapes, Environments & Sets

September 2008 /// 82 PGS - 13.6 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 17: Lighting, Rendering, Video Editing

July 2008 /// 38 PGS - 5.3 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 16: WOW! Factor (Physical Simulation, Particles etc.)

May 2008 /// 63 PGS - 9 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 15: Animation

March 2008 /// 75 PGS - 9.1 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 14: Cartoon & Game Engine

January 2008 /// 90 PGS - 9.1 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 13: Fantasy

November 2007 /// 73 PGS - 10.3 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 12: Texturing

September 2007 /// 45 PGS - 6 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 11: Mechanical

July 2007 /// 60 PGS - 5.6 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 10: Organics

May 2007 /// 63 PGS - 6.9 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 9: Space

March 2007 /// 63 PGS - 5.3 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 8: Car Modeling Mega Special

January 2007 /// 71 PGS - 4 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 7: Blender Materials

November 2006 /// 46 PGS - 5.6 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 6: Architecture & Games

September 2006 /// 45 PGS - 5.6 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 5: Modeling Techniques & Blender Scripts

July 2006 /// 78 PGS - 6.7 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 4: Character Modeling

May 2006 /// 96 PGS - 3.5 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 3: Rendering

March 2006 /// 45 PGS - 3.6 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 2: Animation

January 2006 /// 60 PGS - 5.9 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

ISSUE 1: Mechanical Modeling

November 2005 /// 42 PGS - 5.6 MB - READ IT ONLINE!

The digital magazine WGE:MAG - Issue 3

The WGE:MAG, the digital magazine of the World Gaming Executives comes with several interesting articles, here are some:
Hero Engine - Creating the online game
A Comic Book Hero - Diggle talks games
You can download the WGE:MAG from here.

News about NeoAxis Game Engine: The new version 1.11

The NeoAxis Engine come today with the version 1.11, read more on official website.
NeoAxis Group announces that NeoAxis Engine and its SDK was updated to version 1.11. NeoAxis Engine is an all-purpose 3D engine for games development, simulations and visualization systems creation. New version includes fixes for bugs that has been discovered since version 1.1, adds Parallax Occlusion Mapping technology and support for Autodesk 3dsMax Design 2011/2012 in Model Exporter.

New magazine about game development WGE:MAG

First off, we have an exciting announcement about a great new magazine dedicated to game development. This is named WGE:MAG. In this moment we can read the number two of this issue. This new magazine comes with article about console, mobile and online gamesdevelopers, artists, programmers, players and everything about games and gaming. Download this from here and it's free. This magazine is make by www.worldgamingexecutives.com.

Simple X11 example application .

You can see a simple X11 example application on www.geeks3d.com. The author say us:

Here is the full source code of a simple X11 app that creates a X window and displays some basic information about the system. To quit the app, two ways are available:

I tested this source code and is very easy to understand .

Jpcsp PlayStation Portable emulator

Jpcsp is just one PlayStation Portable emulator. This emulator software allowing you to play your PSP games on a PC. You can take it from here. First , you must have have the JRE - Java on your computer. I use on my Fedora 16 the package : jre-6u27-linux-i586.bin. Also, I use this command to start the emulator:

$ java -Xmx1024m -Djava.library.path=lib/linux-x86 -jar bin/jpcsp.jar

The result is shown in the following screenshot:

Qt with threaded OpenGL support.

Here's a pretty exciting news for developers. Qt, the cross-platform application and user interface framework, is available in version 4.8.0 under fedora 16. The new Ot has the threaded OpenGL support. Under Fedora 16 , we have the development packages:

(1/2): libXv-devel-1.0.6-2.fc15.i686.rpm                 |  38 kB     00:00     
(2/2): qt-devel-4.8.0-0.23.rc1.fc16.i686.rpm             |  10 MB     00:03 

We expect developers will use this functionality to create new graphics applications.

3D engine for Java developers

Who wants to write 3D games that run on Windows, Mac, Linux, and Android ?
If you are a Java developer and you want do that , then use jMonkeyEngine framework jME).
The engine is written in Java and uses LWJGL for OpenGL access.
It is a high-performance, 3D scenegraph-based graphics API with state-of-the-art features.
The jME3 is completely open-source under the BSD license and it is free to use it.
You can find documentation, help and a nice community around JME and jMonkeyEngine.
jMonkeyEngine Homepage
Wiki
Forum

China will launch first 3D television channel in January

The Internet brings us news about 3D television, in a region less than expected - China.

Beijing: Television viewers in China can expect a totally different viewing experience as the country's hopes to launch its first 3D television channel Jan 1, 2012, the government has announced. The TV channel will go into official operation during the Lunar New Year Festival in late January, Xinhua reported.

Read more on this site.