Unity Technologies releases Unity 5.3
Game engine gets support for dynamic raytraced reflections, updates to particles and 2D physics.
Wednesday, December 9th, 2015
OpenGL
Basefount Technology releases Miarmy 4.2
Maya crowd animation system now displays 'tens of thousands' of agents in the viewport without lag.
Friday, November 6th, 2015
Compare Vulkan to OpenGL ES in 'gnomes per second'
Imagination Technologies' demo of graphics APIs draws 40,000 gnomes in real time on a PowerVR G6430 mobile GPU.
Wednesday, August 19th, 2015
Apple to bring its Metal graphics API to OS X
DirectX and Vulkan competitor to spread from iOS to desktop Macs as part of OS X El Capitan this fall.
Thursday, June 11th, 2015
Video: see Vulkan, OpenGL's replacement, in action
Watch an early alpha demo of the next-gen graphics API running on a PowerVR Rogue mobile GPU.
Thursday, March 5th, 2015
Video Copilot releases Element 3D V2
Now shipping: update to After Effects 3D rendering plugin adds PBR, SSS, raytraced shadows, and more.
Wednesday, December 3rd, 2014
Eye candy: Platige Image's Catzilla benchmark short
Updated: Test your workstation and watch a giant animated cat nuke cities with its laser eyes as you do.
Tuesday, January 8th, 2013
Red Giant Software releases Trapcode Mir
Peder Norrby's After Effects plugin creates fast-rendering abstract 3D geometry that reacts to AE's lights.
Thursday, August 2nd, 2012
Smith Micro ships Poser 9 and Poser Pro 2012
New update adds weight painting, SSS, improved OpenGL preview to the popular figure design software.
Tuesday, September 20th, 2011
Review: GPU acceleration in Adobe Creative Suite 5
CS5's GPU-accelerated features speed up workflow - but your choice of card isn't as crucial as you think.
Wednesday, March 16th, 2011