Nymh of EU Drek’thar realm is first 80 ding

Date November 13, 2008

http://www.wowinsider.com/2008/11/13/nyhm-of-drekthar-eu-first-to-level-80/
I mean I haven’t even finished installing the expansion media for Wrath of the Lich King yet at this point. ^^
grats Nymh!

DirectX SDK November 2008 available - segue to Direct3D11

Date November 11, 2008

http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?FamilyId=5493F76A-6D37-478D-BA17-28B1CCA4865A&displaylang=en
The DirectX November 2008 SDK has landed and now available. It’s an important release because it includes a technical preview of Direct3D11. Included in the link above is the notes from the SDK, but I’ll try to point out some of the highlights…

Multithreaded Rendering
The key API difference from Direct3D 10 in Direct3D 11 is the [...]

adding GLEW support to next release

Date November 10, 2008

I was a bit sidetracked near the end of last month, pushing my next release of the PeonSDK to mid-November. I’ve been doing a lot of work cleaning up the engine and (hopefully) making it easier to use.
One addition is the use of the OpenGL Extension Wrangler library into the mix. This will allow for [...]

a technological super achievement lost during U.S. election night

Date November 5, 2008

Putting aside the U.S election results night for a moment, I had completely missed a segment that had aired on CNN during the evening….a live interview done via hologram!
Jessica Yellin appeared via projected hologram to discuss….”being a hologram” to Wolf Blitzer.
Maestro, “Imperial March” music please!

3 online autism gaming sites

Date November 4, 2008

Just trying to do my bit to help promote / circulate some of the existing gaming sites I can find with a bit of a focus on austism / asperger’s syndrome.
1: http://iautistic.com/free-autism-games.php
This one has a list of 4 or so free online games that deal with teaching emotions. There’s also a good matching game for [...]