Oxide Games is partnering with leading graphics hardware manufacturers AMD and NVIDIA to examine the future of video games.  Oxide's groundbreaking Nitrous engine brings game development into a new era with its film-like approach to rendering technology and unprecedented multi-core performance, which among other advantages allows games to present thousands of fully rendered units onscr... more.

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.

Top industry engineering talent spanning decades of experience with companies such as Firaxis and Microsoft have formed a new independent company, Oxide Games. In addition to making cutting-edge games, Oxide is dedicated to making the definitive 3D engine for next-generation strategy games for console and PC. The engine, Nitrous, is a native 64-bit multicore game engine designed specificall... more.