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Singapore is currently hosting Asia's largest Computer Graphics conference. Now in its second year, CG Overdrive showcases the best in the computer art business especially from the region. The conference includes forums, workshops and the showcasing of software, hardware and artistic talents and young hopefuls from around Asia are hoping that companies and design houses will notice their talent. Presenter - Bo Hill Speaker - Edmund Shern, studio head, Imaginary Friends Studios; Sen Lai, organiser, CG Overdrive 2007 listen windows media > HILL: It's got the heavy weight names - Kyle Balda and Leo Hourvitz from A Bug's Life and Toy Story 2, Feng Zhu, the designer of General Grievous from Star Wars, the creator of World of Warcraft PC game, John Chalfant and Takeshi Nozue from Square Enix, director of the enormously successful Final Fantasy VII.

Student plans to put Wales on the videogames map

Adam Griffiths, a student at Newport Business School, is setting up a company that will provide employment for Wales' talented games designers and help the country to profit from this multi-million pound industry. "The computer games industry is one of the biggest in the world yet there are very few companies in Wales making games, said 30-year-old Adam who lives in Newport. "As a result, many people like myself who are gaining degrees in computer game design are having to leave the country in order to find jobs." To combat this 'brain drain' of computer game talent, Adam, who is about to graduate from the University of Wales, Newport with a degree in Computer Game Development and Artificial Intelligence, is setting up a company called Centrifuge Interactive Studios. "By starting my own company I will be able to stay in Newport and avoid the stress of relocating my wife and young children to find a job making computer games.

SPARKLE Introduces Value-priced Calibre P850 Graphic card with ...

Taipei, Taiwan (Tech Messenger) -- SPARKLE Computer Co., Ltd., the professional VGA card manufacturer and supplier, today announces Calibre P850 graphic card . Powered by NVIDIA GeForce 8500 GT graphics processing unit (GPU), the Calibre P850 graphic card brings excellent DirectX 10 gaming performance to entry level users.

Based on NVIDIA's next generation G86 architecture, the Calibre P850 graphic card adopts innovative unified architecture, dynamically allocates processing power to geometry, vertex, physics, or pixel shading operations, delivering up to 2x the gaming performance of prior generation GPUs. Built upon technologies such as NVIDIA Lumenex Engine, providing support for DirectX 10 Shader Model 4.0, NVIDIA Quantum Effects technology for physics computation and GigaThread Technology for extreme processing efficiency in advanced, next generation shader programs.