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VG247 has been told that Sony is aiming to release PlayStation 4 before Xbox 720 next Christmas, and that certain developers have been invited to reveal meetings in the US in May and June.

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If you are in any way interested in graphical advances, check out this amazing Unreal Engine sizzle reel from GDC 2012.

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Rockstar’s released an update for LA Noire: The Complete Edition on PC, enabling DirectX 11 support. Players who want to stay with DirectX 9, or just want to switch between the two, can do so in the game launcher.

The Rockstar Newswire has more details.

Bethesda’s Todd Howard has clarified earlier comments to the effect that the latest Elder Scrolls game wouldn’t live up to DirectX 11′s full potential.

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That’s the word from the community manager on the Total War forum. He’s also “The Creative Assembly Lieutenant’, so it’s best not to argue.

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After weeks of speculation, Crytek has finally announced that there will indeed be a DirectX 11 patch released for Crysis 2.

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PC gamers have been extremely vocal about loving Crysis 2 with all their hearts and not wanting anything to change ever, but even so, whispers of a DirectX 11 patch began floating around 0.47 seconds after the game launched.

Some – while optimistic – have proven less than reliable. So, does this majestic mythical e-creature even exist? Apparently, the answer’s still “yes,” but you probably shouldn’t expect it to stroll into your office tomorrow.

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Crytek has shot down rumors that Crysis 2 would soon be getting DirectX 11 support included in a patch.

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The PC DiRT 2 demo is out now. Yours for 1.31Gb. Get a full list of mirrors, plus gameplay and tech videos, on the game’s official site.

It features two full events. DirectX 11 boffins take note: the game supports it.

Get to it. PR after the break. It released on December 3 in Europe, December 4 in the UK and December 8 in the US.

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EA RTS BattleForge has become the first title to “leverage Microsoft’s DirectX 11 and AMD’s new ATI graphic processor chipset,” the publisher said this morning.

This is a “significant first for the title,” according to EA. You can play the game for free right here.

Matt Toschlog, president of Reactor Zero, Rick White, producer at Volition, and physics programmer Eric Arnold answered questions posed by PC Games Hardware regarding whether Red Faction: Guerrilla would support versions DirectX beyond DirectX 10 – namely 10.1 or 11.

Reagrding this, Toschlog said that the reason the PC version is being released later than the console versions was so extra work on supporting DirectX 9 and DirectX 10 could be accomplished. Also, the developers wanted to add some extra graphical features such as Sun Shafts (God Rays) and Screen-Space Ambient Occlusion.

“We’re supporting Direct X 9 and Direct X 10,” Toschlog told the site. “Since we’re supporting both DX 9 and DX 10, the PC code was actually more complicated than if we’d just supported one API.

“That said, some things were easier under DX 10. In particular, we know that all DX 10 devices will support features such as hardware PCF shadow mapping.

“The graphics are largely the same under DX 9 and DX 10. A few advanced features – such as Screen-Space Ambient Occlusion – only work under DX 10. As for speed, there isn’t a big difference between the two APIs.

“It’s true that most features can be done with both DX 9 and DX 10. Since Direct X is the dominant API on the PC, we expect to be using whatever new versions are available for years to come.”

Just not with this title, apparently.

Game’s out for PC September 15 in the US.

Codemasters said today that the PC version of DiRT 2 will “support the wealth of new performance enhancing features that will be available in DirectX 11.”

In order to get the features in, however, the game needs to “benefit from an extended development program” and ship in December. Not September. As originally planned.

DX11 hardware is expected in the back half of the year. The upgrade will ship with Windows 7 and as a download for Vista.

PR after the break. We’re saying nothing.

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AMD and Nvidia both plan to release new graphics chips by the end of the year.

Great. We just updated ours.

According to a report from VentureBeat, this next-gen batch will be so fantastic it’s “bound to drive the stock prices of the rivals involved either up or down through the rest of the year”.

Both will incorporate 40nm chips on the cards, and are expected to support DirectX 11 within a year.

AMD plans to release its new tech to coincide with the launch of Windows 7, while Nvidia are keeping mum on when its lovely chip will be released.

Via Kotaku, VentureBeat.

As expected, Microsoft has announced DirectX 11 at its US Gamefest event.

The software will be backwards compatible with DX10 hardware. There doesn’t appear to have been a release date announced for it.

“We want to break away from purely having a paradigm of pixels, vertices and shaders,” said XNA boss Chris Satchell, speaking in his keynote at the event. “DX11 is totally compatible with DX10. There’s not that 9/10 discontinuity we created before.”

Satchell also explained the delay in switching from 32-bit to 64-bit architecture is a software problem.

“We’ve been shipping 64-bit CPUs on the hardware side for awhile,” he said. “We’re not at the point where the 64-bit OS is catching up. I think we are [there] in the next six to eight months.”

Thanks Gaming Today and Gama.

According to this Fudzilla piece, Microsoft is to announce DirectX 11 at Gamefest 2008 later this month.

The Microsoft event takes place on July 22-23 in Seattle. No idea if this is true, but there we are.