January 20, 2017
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Tim Sweeney Honored at GDC
The Saint recounts Tim Sweeney’s early contributions to making Windows a gaming platform
May 17, 2014
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XBOX Dis-Kinected?
Microsoft stumbles on XBOX again, WildTangent dominates another game publishing platform… again…
July 22, 2013
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The Evolution of Direct3D
How the architecture strategy behind Direct3D lead to the modern GPU and massively convoluted 3D graphics pipeline
May 23, 2013
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Xbox 360 vs. PS3
What The Saint thought about the last console war between the PS/3 and XBOX 360 in 2005 before they launched.
May 22, 2013
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Early DirectXBOX Stories
Yes the name XBOX is short for DirectXBOX and the glowing green X used to be a radiation symbol logo for the Microsoft skunkworks project code named “Manhattan” to develop DirectX. An extra leg was added to the radiation symbol to make it PC…
May 21, 2013
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XBOX One First Reaction
Only Microsoft would call a system requiring THREE components an All-in-one media solution.
January 25, 2013
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Talisman
I want to begin this story with THE END, because if you think about these events in the present context you may realize that it …
December 28, 2012
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Taking Fun Seriously
One of the things I’m hoping to do in this blog is chronicle the history of DirectX before the stories and adventures associated with creating …
