As an option in the armoury of the programmer, deferred rendering has been around for a while. Released in 2007, PC shooter S.T.A.L.K.E.R. was one of the first commercial titles to make use of the ...

In our latest feature, we’ve been looking at the rise of deferred rendering, and the pros and cons of the alternative to traditional forward shading engines. Speaking to Develop, Guerilla’s art and ...

Into the second part of our Killzone 2 coverage, and with it, analysis of three more campaigns, plus a primer on Deferred Rendering - the key technology that runs the game's engine. Deferred Rendering ...

About six weeks ago, coinciding with GDC 2017, we first learned about Epic Games' work in embracing Forward Rendering. Modern video games tend to employ the Deferred Rendering method which does all of ...

Epic announced a host of new features in their Unreal Engine 3 development platform today at this year's GDC, the biggest of which is support for DirectX 11 and its assorted tools. The problem is, for ...

The Unity game engine has received the first update in what its creators describe as a 'new cycle that introduces a major upgrade to [its] core technology', though with the proviso that many of its ...