Wednesday March 22, 2006

AGEIA In The News

With GDC in full swing there is a lot of news coming from the folks at AGEIA today. There has been announcements of AGEIA PhysX PPU support from UbiSoft, Mystic Game DevelopmentEXT, Black Element Software, Microsoft Game Studios and Epic Games. You can see all 10 of today’s press releases here. BFG Technologies has also announced that its line of physics cards, powered by the PhysX PPU, has been selected by Alienware and Falcon Northwest to “enable extreme physics in gaming systems”. Here’s a quote:

BFG Technologies Inc., the leading U.S.-based supplier of advanced 3D graphics cards and other PC enthusiast products, announced today that it is powering next-generation gaming systems available today from Alienware® and Falcon Northwest® with hardware-accelerated physics cards powered by the AGEIA™ PhysX™ processor. BFG Tech standalone PhysX accelerator add-in cards are scheduled for retail availability to end-users in May, 2006.