Late last week, Intel announced the purchase of gaming development tools maker Havok, authors of the famous Havok physic engine used in a whole raft of top-shelf games like BioShock, Oblivion, ...

When Bungie realized its homegrown physics system from Halo wouldn't be able to scale up the interactive object count or handle the advanced physical effects it wanted for Halo 2, its developers ...

Havok made a few news announcements yesterday but the one I found most interesting is that they will be supporting GPU accelerated physics soon. The Havok physics engine is used in many games these ...

— -- Nvidia announced three anticipated games will be making use of their hyped PhysX technology. Acquired by Ageia in 2008, PhysX formerly required a special ...

We knew it was coming, and now it appears that NVIDIA’s acquisition of PhysX maker Ageia is about to pay off. NVIDIA has told analysts that that the conversion of Ageia’s physics application interface ...

Nvidia has released an updated version of its PhysX SDK. Version 4.0 is now available to anyone interested and since it went open source recently, developers can implement this physics engine on GPUs ...

CPU and GPU acceleration of in-game physics is something that AMD’s graphics part, ATI has in mind. Godfrey Cheng, AMD’s Director of technical marketing, graphics product group, has confirmed that ...

AMD and then, by way of an 'us too' announcement, Nvidia, have announced brand new game physics middleware to deliver unprecedented levels of physical material interaction using the finite element ...

AMD is working on its versions of physics acceleration based on the Havok engine, and as it was promised some time ago, this physics engine should be accelerated on both GPU and CPU. It is quite ...

NVIDIA is announcing via their blog that the PhysX physics simulation engine is finally going open source. According to the company, they are doing this because “physics simulation — long key to ...

NVIDIA Corporation (NASDAQ:NVDA) is one of the best NASDAQ stocks to buy according to hedge funds. On September 29, NVIDIA announced major updates to its robotics platform at CoRL in Seoul, South ...