Windows and Xbox games will receive a significant graphics and performance boost with Microsoft’s new DirectX 12, a set of application programming interfaces and tools used in PC games. Users can ...

Microsoft says that 3D gaming today is a lie. While the techniques game designers use can make games on your screen look like they're 3D, the rasterization process used ultimately only operates in two ...

Microsoft is making Windows 10 friendlier to gaming developers like Valve and Steam, after its Windows 8 "catastrophe" left the gaming world in the lurch. The Redmond company has announced a new ...

Early last year, some developers were worried Microsoft planned to retire its DirectX-- the gaming/graphics programming interfaces that the company has baked into Windows for years. Given the company ...

That's right - 1,752 pages, a whole lot of code, a few chunks of math, and very little space wasted on pictures. Mr. LaMothe, mathematician and computer scientist and author of the immensely ...

After nearly five years of lingering on the same stable release, the next generation of DirectX is finally on its way. But a specter hung over Microsoft’s introduction of DirectX 12 at GDC on Thursday ...