<![CDATA[Kotaku: Intel]]> http://cache.kotaku.com/assets/base/img/thumbs140x140/kotaku.com.png <![CDATA[Kotaku: Intel]]> http://kotaku.com/tag/intel http://kotaku.com/tag/intel <![CDATA[PC Overclockers, You Can Now Insure Your CPU]]> If you've ever fried an expensive CPU trying to overclock the thing, you should check this out. Intel is introducing something called the Performance Tuning Plan, which in plain English means overclocking insurance. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5877754&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Faux Futurists Want to Keep PC Gaming in the Past]]> Some day soon, Nvidia's CEO Jen-Hsun Huang is going to walk on stage at some obscure electronics industry event and say these words: "We love PC gaming. Our heritage is in 3D gaming hardware. And that's why we're more excited than ever to announce we're never making another gaming video card again." More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5837957&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Sixty-Year Old Technology Could Change the Face of Gaming]]> The future of gaming is more than 60 years old. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5778450&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[How Should I Break In My New Gaming Rig]]> You all helped me figure out what pieces and parts to put into my gaming computer, so it's only fair that you get to help me figure out which game to play first on it. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5766322&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Here's How One PC Maker is Dealing With Intel's Recall]]> This morning Intel announced they found an issue with the 6 Series chipset and that they've stopped shipping them from their factory. They're also recalling some. Here's how one boutique PC builder is dealing with the issue. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5748267&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Intel Partial Recall Impacts Fancy New "Sandy Bridge" Chip]]> Chipmaker Intel this morning halted some shipments of a support chip for their much ballyhooed Sandy Bridge microprocessor and is ordering a partial recall. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5747938&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[This Is Portal 2 Played With A Magnetic Motion Controller]]> Keyboard and mouse controls got you down? Yeah, didn't think so. But if millimeter precise motion control sounds like an interesting way to play Valve's first-person puzzler Portal 2, you might want to buy yourself a Razer Sixense. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5727146&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Intel's "Project Offset" Game Cancelled]]> For years, developers from computing giant Intel had been working on a game, called Project Offset. Note the use of past tense in that sentence. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5577979&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Intel Inside Your Mind, Serving You Drinks]]> We're one step closer to browsing the internet with our mind while our robot butler brings us drinks, and it's all thanks to Intel. PC Magazine tells us about the wonderful tech on display at the company's latest R&D day. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5577771&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Hands-On Intel's Room-Sized Multi-Touch Screen]]> Man, imagine playing an iPhone game on this bad boy. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5443962&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[PAX Swag Report: The Good, The Bad And The WTF]]> Well, it turns out that Poogie I was eying at the Capcom booth went for like $40, so I settled for all the free stuff you see here. You tell me — did I make the right decision? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5353860&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Tricell Invites You To The Resident Evil 5 PC Launch Party]]> Capcom, Intel, and Tricell Pharmaceutical Corporation invite PAX attendees to join them in celebrating the launch of Resident Evil 5 for the PC with a night of "games, fun and horror." More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5351903&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Guess BlizzCon Tourney Winners, Win a Gaming Laptop]]> All you Warcraft tournament handicappers, take note - Blizzard's Intel's running a contest to guess the winner of three of its tournaments at the upcoming BlizzCon, and laying two Asus G50vt laptops as grand prizes. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5327857&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Project Offset LIVES!]]> Whhooaahh, Project Offset! Been a while. The fantasy epic, which may we remind you has been in development for a long time, reared its head this week and let us know it's still kicking. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5186416&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Intel Are, Yes, Sacking A Bunch Of People]]> In keeping with today's theme, Intel - manufacturers of processors that are probably in the machine you're reading this on and maybe also in a machine you game on - announced some job cuts. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5137594&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Intel Gives The World Two Far Cry Missions]]> Intel have sponsored two bonus missions for Far Cry 2 on the PC as part of it's Game On promotion. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5104555&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Intel Sees Raytraced Games In The Near Future]]> Raytracing is a method of generating a computer image by tracing a ray of light through an image plane. The whole process is similar to how light bounces off objects in nature, determining the color, sheen, luminosity, etc. Whereas other methods of creating graphics have to generate special effects, shadows, bloom, and other popular lighting techniques are all occur as a natural product of raytracing. The problem is that raytracing is very resource intensive, making it great for pre-rendered applications, not-so-great for on-the-fly applications like games. According to Intel's Michael Vollmer, that's a fact that could change sooner than we think. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=5031444&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Rockstar To Track Early GTA IV Players?]]> Journalists in the UK who were receiving advanced copies of Grand Theft Auto IV had an interesting caveat—beyond wanting to know which platform was preferred for testing, Rockstar wanted to know their LIVE Gamertag or PSN IDs. While Rockstar's email request has been pulled from the source site, it's speculated that they intend to track various non-approved players, looking for regions where GTA IV might be leaking early. But from what we know about LIVE and PSN, Rockstar will have no way of differentiating downloadable copies (that have just leaked) from retail discs actually being sold early. So it all becomes an exercise in futility. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=383148&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Samus, Unreal Tournament III's Newest Contender]]> After transplanting Master Chief from his warm, green home on the Xbox 360 to the PlayStation 3, it was hard to imagine a greater iconoclastic modder offense...but one may have just happened. The newest entrant to the UTIII unlicensed mods club is this Samus Aran skin. Play Metroid, kinda, on your PS3! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=376181&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Eight-Core Motherboard Will Destroy Games, Scare Small Children]]> Me, I've got a single core processor sitting on my motherboard. Just the one. Was thinking of upgrading to a quad-core later this year, but now, I don't know. That notion's coming under very close scrutiny after this monstrosity was announced today, most likely to coincide with the official unveiling of the PC Gaming Alliance: Intel's eight-core processor, officially dubbed the Intel Dual Socket Extreme Desktop Platform, but more awesomely known as the Skulltrail. Eight cores? Was man meant to reach such dizzying heights? We are but Icarus, flying too close to the sun...It's targeted specifically at gamers, and sure, it's $649, but for that price you can plug two quad-core processors into it, which when combined with support for both Crossfire and SLI graphics cards should be enough to melt both your face and your wallet. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=358403&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[PC Gaming Alliance Officially Announced, Here To Save The Day]]> The PC Gaming Alliance is real. It was just announced at GDC, and comprises not only the rumoured Intel, Nvidia, AMD/ATi and Microsoft (along with Alienware, Dell, ACER and Gateway), but publishing giants Epic and Activision as well. Intel's Randy Stude will be heading up the group, which rather than making things like official stickers, box labels and slogans will instead be working to provide the platform with a unified "voice":
One of our main major objectives is to provide one voice on PC gaming market. There's no one source that says 'hey this is where the PC market is going'. Sony, Nintendo and Microsoft are always calling their market share - we're going to call our market through this group.
Sounds like a truly-grass-roots move. And it's got all the big hardware names, and two of the biggest software names (remember, Acti includes Blizzard now), onboard. Seems reports of the death of PC gaming have been greatly exaggerated! More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=358436&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Microsoft & Hardware Manufacturers To Form PC Gaming "Alliance"?]]> According to Dean Takahashi over at the San Jose Mercury News, a number of the PC world's biggest names - inclusing Microsoft, AMD (so ATi), Nvidia and Intel - will at GDC announce a PC gaming "alliance", targeted at promoting the PC as a gaming platform. They'll be hoping to lure big-name developers and publishers back to the PC, many of who have walked away from the platform due to piracy concerns and the lure of the console market, and here's hoping they succeed. Millions of dollars in revenue from MMOs and casual, ad-supported games are great for those in on that action, but a lot of us just want to play better - and more - good old-fashioned PC games. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=355751&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[New York AG Subpoenas Intel]]> New York's attorney general is investigating whether Intel violated state and federal antitrust laws by penalizing computer makers, cutting off competitors' distribution channels and improperly paying customers for exclusivity. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=343319&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Intel Buys Havok, Lets Slip Dogs Of War]]> Over the weekend Intel, the company that spawned countless witty stickers with "(Insert Noun) Inside", announced the purchase of Irish company Havok, creators of the Havok middleware physics engine, which has been used in over 150 games across just about every popular platform today, from BioShock to Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix. According to a release on Intel's site, the purchase "will enable developers in the digital animation and game communities to take advantage of Intel's innovation and technology leadership in the creation of digital media", where previously they were doing the same thing, only with Havok instead of Intel. Same difference. From what I can determine from the release, Havok will continue business as usual, though I bet they'll have much snazzier stickers. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=300397&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Pet Shop Boys Play SL]]> We're one step closer to never having to deal with those Nazis over at Ticketmaster ever again! Weekend after next, the Guardian and Intel will be hosting a music festival in Second Life called "Second Fest". Headlining the show will be the Pet Shop Boys, New Young Pony Club, The Aliens, and Hadouken. Other real-world bands like Hot Chip, Simian Mobile Disco, and Ninja Tunes will be featured on different stages. Not to be upstaged will be Second Life talent who will have their own exclusive stage at the festival. Many other events are scheduled, like a VIP area to chat with the bands after their sets, and a human maze. More details are listed on their MySpace page. Kim Phu More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=270561&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Intel on Multi-Core Processing: Wasted Potential]]> There is no doubt about it: multi-cores are all they were promised to be. Benchmarks show time and time again their high efficiency with multimedia tasks especially, which is great news for gamers. But when Intel's developer for game platforms was grading programmers' utilization of mutl-core processors, he had this to say:
When the first dual-core chips came out (in 2005), we were at a D-minus...I'd say we're at a 'C-plus' right now.
In other words, programmers are lazy ass failures with the multi-core platforms. Considering that Intel's main business is their 2-core Core2Duo line, we can only imagine how the 8-core Cell would fair in their off-the-cuff testing. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=251940&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[CES: The Most Unnecessary Driving Chair Ever]]> CES is loaded with tired executives looking to kill time between supplier lunch meetings and distributor meet-and-greets, meaning they'll do just about anything a six foot tall blonde with a headset tells them. Like, sit in a full-sized Formula One car and play simulation racing games in front of dozens of people. (You might not believe this, but there are only so many 1080p LCD televisions you can look at before you get bored.) More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=227188&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[The Amazing Quad-Core Technology of Alan Wake]]>
Remedy is known for their games about grimacing, constipated protagonists with incompetent puns for names. First, Max Payne. Now Alan Wake, or, you know, isn't that clever, A. Wake? More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=203851&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[Intel Invests in In-Game Ads Company]]>
In light of Intel's recent investment in IGA, a firm primarily known for paying Counter-Strikelike advertising in games: More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=185467&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[How To Rebuild My PC]]> First, thanks for all of the advice. Thanks also for all of the offers to help me build a PC, but I don't think it would be ethical, and besides, I like putting together computers. More »
]]> http://kotaku.com/index.php?op=postcommentfeed&postId=183177&view=rss&microfeed=true <![CDATA[GameTap and Intel Working Together]]> Next Generation reports that GameTap will be utilizing Intel's Viiv technology. The tech makes it easier to play games on their television. From Next Gen: "GameTap said that in conjunction with Intel's Viiv technology, USB game peripherals and MCE remote controls will be easier to use with the gaming service." More »
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