Star Swarm, the first look at Oxide Games’ next-generation Nitrous engine, is available!

Published on January 30, 2014 By Island Dog In PC Gaming

Star Swarm, the first look at Oxide Games’ next-generation Nitrous engine, is available! Download it now through Steam for free.

See the future of strategy gaming today with thousands of units on screen, powered by the engine behind several upcoming Stardock titles.

The Nitrous engine is a truly next-generation, 64-bit engine that uses techniques pulled from the film industry to take strategy game visuals to the next level. We envision a future where strategy gaming is closer to the Battle of Endor from Return of the Jedi than two dozen space marines shooting three dozen bugs. Star Swarm is proof that that future is closer than you may have thought.

Star Swarm is also one of the very first looks at AMD’s groundbreaking Mantle technology. Anyone with a Graphics Core Next-based system (basically, running a Radeon 7000 series or newer) can download the beta Mantle drivers from AMD and see the performance gains that can be realized with a forward-thinking graphics API like Mantle.

Download Star Swarm for free from Steam here.

Comments (Page 3)

satoru1

on Mar 07, 2014

http://hothardware.com/News/Microsoft-Confirms-DirectX-12-Lives-Will-Showcase-Technology-At-GDC/

I know Frogboy has talked about how MS has been behind the times with DirectX and such. Maybe we can hope that DX12 provides some "Mantle-like" capabilities.

Campaigner

on Mar 12, 2014

satoru1

reply 31

http://hothardware.com/News/Microsoft-Confirms-DirectX-12-Lives-Will-Showcase-Technology-At-GDC/

I know Frogboy has talked about how MS has been behind the times with DirectX and such. Maybe we can hope that DX12 provides some "Mantle-like" capabilities.

Sure, at the cost of using Windows 9

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