While browsers and their rendering capabilities may be on the rise, APIs like DirectX and OpenGL are certainly not. It's technology of the past, as Tim Sweeney, founder of Epic Games and the mastermind behind the Unreal engines, might have put it. The falling stars of the graphics heaven, DirectX and OpenGL, have become quite rusty over the time. more...

Web-mammuth Google longs to capture the flag of the browser market with Chrome--something Firefox hasn't been able to manage since its release. Microsoft still holds the lion share as over 70% of the web-browsing people use the Internet Explorer. That doesn't stop Google to shoot forward, or straight upward right through the roof, though. Google now wants to open their brand-new, web-embeddable 3D virtual world Lively to 3D game developing. Can we imagine a Quake running in our browser? more...

DirectX 10.1 and OpenGL 3 were introduced at this years SIGGRAPH, an annual conference on computer graphics. more...