Back in the 1990s, I remember enjoying then-Microsoft-bigwig Alex St. John’s intelligent screeds (and occasional rants) back when DirectX was still this wild, unruly, nascent thing and assistive 3D ...

In a scary twist that reinforces Valve's distaste of Windows 8, it turns out that the Source engine -- the 3D engine that powers Half Life 2, Left 4 Dead, and Dota 2 -- runs faster on Ubuntu 12.04 and ...

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This is a dumb question and I feel like I should know the answer. I had a friend come over today to see my new computer that I built. I was showing him Counterstrike. He asked what my video settings ...

If Monday's announcement of SteamOS was greeted with a great deal of interest and speculation, Wednesday's announcement that Valve was getting into living room PCs with broad compatibility and a full ...

In today’s post, we explore why OpenGL applications do not run on a Miracast wireless display in Windows 10. Microsoft has confirmed that this is a problem that applies to the recent versions of ...

id Software co-founder John Carmack built his popular game engines around the cross-platform OpenGL API. It therefore may be a surprise to learn that he considers Microsoft's DirectX to be a superior ...

The most significant update yet to No Man's Sky is coming this summer. It's called NEXT. Whatever advances it brings (VR among other things is rumored), it will be making its debut on the Xbox One.