John Carmack barely needs an introduction to gamers. After co-founding id Software, he was the lead programmer of incredibly influential games like Wolfenstein 3D, Doom, Quake and most recently Rage.

For developers looking to make use of Vulkan on Apple platforms, options have been quite limited; however, thanks to a deal made by Valve, popular tools have been made free to use. Over the last few ...

Vulkan is an API that many developers use to create games. We’re going to be stepping into the complicated world of APIs to explain what they are. So, without further ado, here is everything you need ...

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Show me the facts Explain it like I’m 5 Give me a lighthearted recap Vulkan API support for Android was announced with Android Nougat back at Google I/O 2016. To refresh your mind, this API helps ...

Jason Ekstrand gave a presentation at the 2016 X.Org Developers Conference (XDC) on a driver that he and others wrote for the new Vulkan 3D graphics API on Intel graphics hardware. Vulkan is ...

With the release Tuesday of Vulkan 1.3, NVIDIA continues its unparalleled record of day one driver support for this cross-platform GPU application programming interface for 3D graphics and computing.

Popular cross-platform 3D graphics and compute API Vulkan is gaining support for the Apple ecosystem, which means Mac and iOS developers will be able to build and run Vulkan apps on Apple devices.

The Khronos Group behind graphics API Vulkan has announced the ratification and public release of Vulkan Ray Tracing. Delivered via a handful of open-source extensions, Vulkan is now able to offer ...

I am a professional programmer, but I do not develop games for a living. In the past, I have brought you the fine small3d game development library, open source titles like Gloom, Avoid the Bug and ...