John Carmack on id Tech 6, Ray Tracing, Consoles, Physics and more on PC Perspective is a Q&A with the id Software cofounder and technical director. The conversation focuses on very technical details about graphics engine development, sure to be a help to anyone writing a doctoral thesis...

id Software's Kevin Cloud Talks QUAKE Wars, id Tech 5 on Shacknews talks with the id Software lead artist and co-owner about the aforementioned topics. Here's a bit of his answer about Tech 5, id's next game engine:Things are moving along great. We're currently preparing it for licensors to ...

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You know the tech industry is already affected by this credit crunch is when they all start announcing job cuts or lay-offs. These are just the big named companies. Start-ups are also doing the same thing. TC has a tracker here. Symantec - 880 Electronic Arts - 600 Motorola - 3,000 Xerox Corp...

AMD will release next month a new version of its ATI Catalyst driver suite that unlocks stream-processing technology that currently lies dormant in ATI Radeon HD 4000 series videocards. AMD describes ATI Stream as a collection of hardware and software technologies that enable AMD GPUs to work wit...