Tag archive: PhysX

Nvidia’s fledgling  PhysX engine received a major dose of support this week with two major game studios picking up the technology for use in future titles. Electronic Arts and 2K Games both revealed on Monday that they had licensed PhysX technology for their games studios. The PhysX engine, which Nvidia purchased from Ageia back in February, allows for advanced in-game physics like destructible terrain, deformable materials,… Read More

Skeptics who said physics acceleration would never make it anywhere may want to reconsider, following the latest news from Ageia, makers of the PhysX engine.  Gaming hardware giant Nvidia announced on Tuesday that it would be buying up the entire company, an acquisition that will put graphics and physics accelerators for next-gen games under one roof, and possibly on one chip. “By combining the teams that created the… Read More

The GC Game Developers Conference, being held this week in Leipzig, Germany, has brought on a flurry of pledges from European game develoeprs embracing the Agiea PhysX physics processor. The Physx processor—announced back in March and a hit at this year's E3 Expo—enables new levels of real-time simulations of physical objects in games, including everything from realistic character motion to weather and (a delight to many… Read More