Category: technology

  • Apple’s App Store Delisting Civil War Games

    Tasos Lazarides: If you’ve been watching the news recently, you’ll know of the huge debate in the U.S over the role of the Confederate flag in contemporary America. Many see it as a reminder of the many pre-Civil War injustices while others see it simply as a way to honor the soldiers who died for the…

  • Nvidia GeForce GTX Titan X

    Dave James reviewing the new $999 graphics card from Nvidia: Inside that chunky chip are 24 streaming microprocessors (SMM) in six graphics processing clusters (GPC). With the Maxwell design running to 128 CUDA cores in each SMM that makes for a grand total of 3,072 cores in the GTX Titan X. Completing the core configuration…

  • We’re All Doomed: Part LXVII

    Chris DiBona announces the shutdown of Google Code: When we started the Google Code project hosting service in 2006, the world of project hosting was limited. We were worried about reliability and stagnation, so we took action by giving the open source community another option to choose from. Since then, we’ve seen a wide variety…

  • Valve’s VR Headset Announcement

    HTC and Valve announced the HTC Vive today, a headset similar to the Oculus Rift. The differences are in the head tracking, a slight increase to resolution compared to the Oculus Rift DK2, and a custom game controller. Similar to the VR room demo Valve had at Steam Dev Days, the HTC Vive will have tracking…

  • Ryan Gordon on SteamLUG Podcast

    The creator of many good things, Ryan Gordon, recently made an appearance on the SteamLUG podcast. Tune in for the talk of how Linux gaming is doing. Keep listening for exactly how to use your Steam Controller in the event of an emergency.