Oxide Games has released today the first look at its next-generation Nitrous engine, Star Swarm. The engine demo, freely available for Windows PC through Steam, demonstrates the ability of Nitrous-powered games to simulate and display thousands of high-detail units in a single scene. Star Swarm is also one of the first publicly available demonstrations of AMD’s groundbreaking Mantle techn... more.

Today, Oxide Games released a video of the Star Swarm engine demo shown at CES. The demo has Thousands of units running individual AI and physics in a dynamic simulation – so much PEW PEW PEW action we can hardly believe it! O_O Star Swarm is not a game, but rather a demo showing off the Nitrous engine and what it means for the future of strategy games. Nitrous is capable of simulating a... more.