Interesting Microsoft news from GDC

[SiDeards73]

While strictly not GPU Related directly, the below article is kinda relevant for PC gamers

http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2015/03/04/phil-spencer-microsoft-gdc-2015-.aspx

Basically they want Devs to use Win 10 to ease themselves into developing for the Xbone, ontop of that Win10 will have Xbox Live bundled with it, given the nature of DX12 being embedded and the bonuses it brings for PC's and GPU's / CPU's etc being able to be harnessed, this is good news.

If they learn to develop for the console on the PC as the architecture is close in nature, hopefully it means the games get optomised for the console and their hardware but leaves them available for even more optomisation for the PC which they are developing on, a possible end to sloppy console ports?

Additionally, Win10 will also allow cross platform gaming with Xbone, so you can play games on both in the same world, for instance Elite Dangerous is being ported, Elder Scrolls online is about to launch on Xbone etc, good news really.

 

[Martini1991]

PC gaming section this would belong in

 

[ashmanuk67]

Do you know what I miss! user map packs.

The days when people would upload maps for say COD etc that's what I miss

This seems good news, I wood love a good boxing game Those sort of games are never on PC lol

 

[SiDeards73]

PC gaming section this would belong in

True i will get a mod to move it, still interesting though that they are recommending developing console games on the PC, optomise them for the console and then optomise further for PC use.

UT4 should have a ton of user made content

 

[Freddie1980]

It's a shame fps games like UT4 are almost an extinct species these days with tons of user content for players to download.