Gabe Newell, president of Valve Software, believes that Microsoft made a serious mistake releasing DirectX 10 for Vista only, excluding Windows XP. I have to agree with Newell. According to an online ...

SAN JOSE, Calif.--Windows Vista may be delayed, but that isn't changing Microsoft's game plan for Game Developers Conference 06. Microsoft is in full force at the conference with leading ...

Wine 3.0 is now available to help you run Windows applications and games on Linux, macOS, and BSD systems. Wine -- or 'Wine is Not an Emulator' -- is a compatibility layer that implements the Windows ...

DirectX is an often-misunderstood platform. Introduced in 1995 as a way to convince DOS game developers to move over to Windows, DirectX provided an application programming interface (API) that ...

GameSpot may get a commission from retail offers. While first-person shooters of yore were arcade-style games that put big guns in your hand and tasked you with dashing around various corridors from a ...

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Rumors have emerged about a wrapper under development that will allow gamers to play Vista-only DirectX 10 games under Windows XP. Currently, the Alky Project has released a preview of its DirectX 10 ...

British site The Inquirer is reporting from Siggraph 2007 that the next version of DirectX, 10.1, requires spanking new hardware to support its sort of spanking new features. The spec revision ...

Brent from [H]ard|OCP / [H]Enthusiast has written an article regarding DirectX 10 and how it will impact gamers next year when Vista finally ships. There are some major changes coming with DX10, and a ...

Yesterday, Relic released patch version 1.7 to their hit RTS game Company of Heroes, adding support for DirectX 10. This patch essentially makes Company of Heroes the first game publicly available ...

Microsoft now officially is saying that DirectX 10.1 is the integrated part of DirectX 10.1. The new API will enable new hardware features, and according to Microsoft, Service pack 1 “Adds support for ...

Who says DirectX 10 isn't for Windows XP? Apparently not Cody Brocious of San Diego, who has been hard at work on getting DX 10 to run on XP, Linux, and OS X. Mr. Brocious blogged the following just ...