- A look back at E3's long and storied history - 5 June 2014
It's funny how far the Electronic Entertainment Expo has come in its nearly 20 years of existence. It's had its fair share of ups and downs, but overall it's been the go-to show for surprise game announcements, system reveals and other information about forthcoming titles. In addition, it's also become a huge social center for journalists and attendees alike, whether it was during the show or the many after-parties that surrounded it. Join us now as we take a look back into the past of E3, when it began as a small idea that broke away from the Consumer Electronics Show and flourished into something bigger and spectacular, only to drift off and be reborn again.
- 3D Realms bought by Interceptor Entertainment part-owner - 3 March 2014
It's never simple with 3D Realms. The Duke Nukem creator is current being sued by Gearbox Software, who bought the musclebound chucklehead's IP as it finished Duke Nukem Forever , over supposedly trying to make a new Duke game with Rise of the Triad remaker Interceptor Entertainment. 3DR simply has no right to, Gearbox says. But oh, another wrinkle. 3D Realms has now been bought by an investment firm which part-owns Interceptor.
- 3D Realms 'voluntarily withdraws' lawsuit against Gearbox - 13 September 2013
Back in June , Duke Nukem creator 3D Realms sued Duke Nukem Forever co-developer Gearbox Software for over $1.3 million. However, it appears Gearbox has walked away the winner, with 3D Realms "voluntarily withdrawing" their claim. "After reviewing evidence regarding our business affairs, and without any money exchanging hands, we have satisfactorily resolved any and all differences that we perceived against Gearbox," a statement from 3D Realms reads.
- Midweek Madness - Swedish Indie Pack! - 11 September 2012
An awesome group of indie developers from Sweden have come together to create the Swedish Indie Pack for this week's Midweek Madness*! This Pack includes: * Blueberry Garden ; * Bob Came in Pieces ; * Dwarfs!? ; * Hamilton's Great Adventure ; * Harvest: Massive Encounter ; * Lead and Gold: Gangs of the Wild West ; * Noitu Love 2: Devolution ; * Puzzle Dimension ; * Saira ; * The Ball ; *Offer ends Thursday at 4PM Pacific Time
- Puzzle Dimension Update Released - 23 September 2011
- Improved input timing by ensuring inputs are processed at a much higher tolerance regarding to framerate. - OSX binary statically linked. - Fixed glyph rendering bug in the Flash player which could cause flickering characters. - Fixed some rendering issues in the Flash player regarding "DX9 device lost" scenarios. - Fixed some threading issues with sound channel allocations which could cause some sounds not to be played. - Added a quick fade out transition from in-game to front-end. - A lot of optimizations in the ActionScript interpreter. - Improved enumeration of Steam leaderboards, a lot quicker to retreive and update leaderboard entries. - Using OGG compression of static sounds for improved loading times. - Major optimizations in the LUA scripting layer, reusing memory as much as possible which means less time spent in garbage collection. - Reduced number of open file handles to c…
- Update: Optimizations and some new languages (日本語, 简化字 and 한국어/조선말) - 6 June 2011
- Added languages: Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese. - Optimized Flash UI renderer and player. - Major optimizations in the DX9 and OpenGL renderers. - Improved threading and CPU usage in particle system. - Alot (!) of performance, threading and memory optimizations through out the entire engine. - Streaming music from memory instead of IO to reduce playback glitches during loading on low-end machines. - Optimized loading time both between levels and between in-game/front-end transitions. - Now using DirectInput8 for keyboard input instead of Win32 API functions. - Minor graphical improvements on various particle effects, meshes etc. - Able to adjust gamma in "video options". - Fade sound when application becomes inactive. - Faster to shutdown when closing game during loading. - Some tweaks to "highest" shadow setting to reduce SSAO noise. - Loading initial resources during start…
- Update: Optimizations and some new languages (日本語, 简化字 and 한국어/조선말) - 6 June 2011
- Added languages: Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese. - Optimized Flash UI renderer and player. - Major optimizations in the DX9 and OpenGL renderers. - Improved threading and CPU usage in particle system. - Alot (!) of performance, threading and memory optimizations through out the entire engine. - Streaming music from memory instead of IO to reduce playback glitches during loading on low-end machines. - Optimized loading time both between levels and between in-game/front-end transitions. - Now using DirectInput8 for keyboard input instead of Win32 API functions. - Minor graphical improvements on various particle effects, meshes etc. - Able to adjust gamma in "video options". - Fade sound when application becomes inactive. - Faster to shutdown when closing game during loading. - Some tweaks to "highest" shadow setting to reduce SSAO noise. - Loading initial resources during start…
- Puzzle Dimension Updated - 6 June 2011
- Added languages: Japanese, Korean and Simplified Chinese. - Optimized Flash UI renderer and player. - Major optimizations in the DX9 and OpenGL renderers. - Improved threading and CPU usage in particle system. - Alot (!) of performance, threading and memory optimizations through out the entire engine. - Streaming music from memory instead of IO to reduce playback glitches during loading on low-end machines. - Optimized loading time both between levels and between in-game/front-end transitions. - Now using DirectInput8 for keyboard input instead of Win32 API functions. - Minor graphical improvements on various particle effects, meshes etc. - Able to adjust gamma in "video options". - Fade sound when application becomes inactive. - Faster to shutdown when closing game during loading. - Some tweaks to "highest" shadow setting to reduce SSAO noise. - Loading initial resources during start…
- Puzzle Dimension Update Released - 10 December 2010
Updates to Puzzle Dimension have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: * Fixed bug with game taking forever to start when Steam is offline. * Improved threaded loading of save data. * Preload all static sounds; less CPU intense playback. * Added glowing particles in wood theme teleporter. * CPU optimized sound system. * Various rendering optimizations in water theme.
- Yet another update released. - 9 November 2010
Updates to Puzzle Dimension have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: * (PC/Mac) Fixed many translation errors * (PC/Mac) Rewrote Steam integration; less time spent waiting but also more secure. * (PC/Mac) Improved character trail effect. * (PC/Mac) Heavily optimized surround sound filter. * (PC/Mac) Improved configuration handling; no longer cycle front end for every configuration change. * (PC/Mac) Sanity check antialias option; could cause visual artifacts on some graphics cards with incorrect MSAA option. * (PC/Mac) Stability improved on ragdoll pose controller; ie. flowers aren't as jumpy as before. * (PC/Mac) Improved blur/downsample pass in postprocessing; less moving artifacts during postprocessing. * (PC/Mac) Improved thread usage when loading levels. * (PC) Fixed bug in DI8 input device classif…
- Yet another update released. - 9 November 2010
Updates to Puzzle Dimension have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: * (PC/Mac) Fixed many translation errors * (PC/Mac) Rewrote Steam integration; less time spent waiting but also more secure. * (PC/Mac) Improved character trail effect. * (PC/Mac) Heavily optimized surround sound filter. * (PC/Mac) Improved configuration handling; no longer cycle front end for every configuration change. * (PC/Mac) Sanity check antialias option; could cause visual artifacts on some graphics cards with incorrect MSAA option. * (PC/Mac) Stability improved on ragdoll pose controller; ie. flowers aren't as jumpy as before. * (PC/Mac) Improved blur/downsample pass in postprocessing; less moving artifacts during postprocessing. * (PC/Mac) Improved thread usage when loading levels. * (PC) Fixed bug in DI8 input device classif…
- Puzzle Dimension Update Released - 9 November 2010
Updates to Puzzle Dimension have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: * (PC/Mac) Fixed many translation errors; * (PC/Mac) Rewrote Steam integration; less time spent waiting but also more secure. * (PC/Mac) Improved character trail effect. * (PC/Mac) Heavily optimized surround sound filter. * (PC/Mac) Improved configuration handling; no longer cycle front end for every configuration change. * (PC/Mac) Sanity check antialias option; could cause visual artifacts on some graphics cards with incorrect MSAA option. * (PC/Mac) Stability improved on ragdoll pose controller; ie. flowers aren't as jumpy as before. * (PC/Mac) Improved blur/downsample pass in postprocessing; less moving artifacts during postprocessing. * (PC/Mac) Improved thread usage when loading levels. * (PC) Fixed bug in DI8 input device classi…
- Update released. - 26 October 2010
Updates to Puzzle Dimension have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: * Added language menu and languages: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Polish and Swedish. * Improved font smooth algorithm. * Optimized rendering a lot. * Improved culling scheme on background geometry. * A lot of CPU optimizations. * Optimized load time of sound and particle effects. * Improved CPU multicore usage on particle effects. * Reduced memory usage a lot.
- Update released. - 26 October 2010
Updates to Puzzle Dimension have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: * Added language menu and languages: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Polish and Swedish. * Improved font smooth algorithm. * Optimized rendering a lot. * Improved culling scheme on background geometry. * A lot of CPU optimizations. * Optimized load time of sound and particle effects. * Improved CPU multicore usage on particle effects. * Reduced memory usage a lot.
- Puzzle Dimension Updated - 26 October 2010
Updates to Puzzle Dimension have been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: * Added language menu and languages: French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Polish and Swedish. * Improved font smooth algorithm. * Optimized rendering a lot. * Improved culling scheme on background geometry. * A lot of CPU optimizations. * Optimized load time of sound and particle effects. * Improved CPU multicore usage on particle effects. * Reduced memory usage a lot.
- Weeklong Sale - 50% Off on Puzzle Dimension - 25 October 2010
Puzzle Dimension is available at half price now through November 10th at 10AM Pacific Time. Act now and save! With the latest update, the game now supports English, French, Italian, German, Spanish, Portuguese, Russian, Polish and Swedish.
- Update released. - 4 October 2010
The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: * New Progress UI implemented (PC/Mac) * Updated to Bullet 2.77 (PC/Mac) * A lot of engine optimizations (PC/Mac) * Several memory leaks fixed (PC/Mac) * Stability issues in LUA scripting fixed (PC/Mac) * Reduced memory needed to load SWF (PC/Mac) * Added support for HID joystick devices (ie Logitech gamepads). (Mac) * Fixed enumeration of interlaced and/or TV-output modes in OpenGL. (Mac)
- Update released. - 4 October 2010
The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: * New Progress UI implemented (PC/Mac) * Updated to Bullet 2.77 (PC/Mac) * A lot of engine optimizations (PC/Mac) * Several memory leaks fixed (PC/Mac) * Stability issues in LUA scripting fixed (PC/Mac) * Reduced memory needed to load SWF (PC/Mac) * Added support for HID joystick devices (ie Logitech gamepads). (Mac) * Fixed enumeration of interlaced and/or TV-output modes in OpenGL. (Mac)
- Puzzle Dimension Update Released - 4 October 2010
An update to Puzzle Dimension has been released. The updates will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: * New Progress UI implemented (PC/Mac); * Updated to Bullet 2.77 (PC/Mac); * A lot of engine optimizations (PC/Mac); * Several memory leaks fixed (PC/Mac); * Stability issues in LUA scripting fixed (PC/Mac); * Reduced memory needed to load SWF (PC/Mac); * Added support for HID joystick devices (ie Logitech gamepads). (Mac); * Fixed enumeration of interlaced and/or TV-output modes in OpenGL. (Mac);
- Puzzle Dimension Mac Updated - 9 September 2010
An update for Puzzle Dimension Mac has been released. The update will be applied automatically when your Steam client is restarted. The major changes include: * Work around for incorrect application startup parameters. * Fixed input related problems when having multiple keyboards attached.
