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The most popular blog posts about games & graphics on Hacker News. 35 posts.
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Depixelizing Pixel Art
Explore research at Microsoft, a site featuring the impact of research along with publications, products, downloads, and research careers.
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An Unreal Decision
Discover the journey of switching game engines from Unity to Unreal Engine 4 for the development of Republic Sniper. Learn about the challenges, benefits, and insights gained from this transition, along with progress updates and insights into UE4's features.
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GameCube Emulation and Pixel Processing Problems
The GameCube GPU is a complex, tight-knit piece of hardware with impressive features for its time. It is so powerful and so flexible, it was used unmodified within the Wii architecture. For a comparison, just imagine a SNES running with an NES's graphics system. This is completely unheard of, before...
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Harry Eng – Master Bottle Filler
Harry was born in 1932 and died in 1996. He was a school teacher, educational consultant, inventor, and magician. A web search will tell you a little about his many talents but in summary:
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A Programming War Between 545 Wizards
What happens when you challenge hundreds of elite programmers to put on their robes and wizard hats, enchant their minions to solve a constantly shifting multi-agent traveling salesman problem, use the loot to build mighty armies, and vie for eternal glory and tournament prizes? You get a lot of
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XKCD “Time” Wins Hugo Award for Best Graphic Story
The 72nd World Science Fiction Convention, Loncon 3, has announced the 2014 Hugo Award winners. 3587 valid ballots were received and counted in the final ballot. BEST NOVEL Ancillary Justice, by An…
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Gog.com Now Supports Linux
Download the best classic and new games on Windows, Mac & Linux. A vast selection of titles, DRM-free, with free goodies and 30-day money-back guarantee.
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Gog.com Soon On More Platforms
Download the best classic and new games on Windows, Mac & Linux. A vast selection of titles, DRM-free, with free goodies and 30-day money-back guarantee.
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Microsoft buys Minecraft for 2.5B
The latest news and stories about how technology is helping people around the world solve problems, innovate and do more each day.
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OpenXcom 1.0
More platforms coming soon. For those making the ports, don’t forget to include the extra translations with your release. There’s also a Source Tarball available with it all included .
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Asm.js performance improvements in the latest version of Firefox
The latest version of Firefox which launched last week includes a major update to the user interface as well as to features like Sync. Another area in which this release ...
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An Old Problem Meets Its Timely Demise
The Legend of Zelda: The Wind Waker is one of the most popular Gamecube games, if not Nintendo games, in existence. Its mixture of an open world, sharp dungeons, and an inventive art style turned heads more than ten years ago when it was released. Dolphin has had its...
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There's a WebGL talk at WWDC 2014
In July 2011, Apple released Safari 5.1 bringing WebGL to OS X users. WebGL advocates the world over rejoiced - except there was a catch. WebGL was disabled by default, hidden behind a flag buried deep within Safari's preferences panel. The general expectation was that a switch to 'on by default' could not be far…
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Mozilla and Epic Preview Unreal Engine 4 Running in Firefox
Today, Epic Games and Mozilla are demonstrating how the Web is continuing to evolve as a powerful platform for gaming by providing a sneak peek of Epic’s
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Oculus Connect 2014
We’re thrilled to welcome nearly 1,000 developers from around the world to Oculus Connect, our first developer conference. If you’re not at...
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RenderMan Price Restructuring
What's New in RenderMan
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Key Advances in the OpenGL Ecosystem
The Khronos™ Group, an open consortium of leading hardware and…
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Why Gooseberry, the open animation film, matters
I can't express enough how important this Gooseberry project is, for me personally and for a lot of people out there. There are so many solutions for urgent issues coming together in Gooseberry - it is really mind-blowing sometimes. This is what Gooseberry is for me: - Open Movies as a Blender dev
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Dolphin – The Rise of HLE Audio
Like any artistic medium, games are emotional experiences filled with joy, sadness, frustration, and more. Special moments can bring tears, cause shouting, or even screams. But imagine during one of those emotional highs if the audio simply died, and the game continued onward in a deafening silence before eventually…