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Chipmaker Nvidia has reported what it deems as "record" sales for the three months sales period between November and January, due to a spike in demand for its new Maxwell graphics cards.

The corporation's revenue for the quarter was put at $1.25 billion, up by 9 percent from the same period last year, due in part by the availability of second-generation GeForce GPUs such as the GTX 980.

Nvidia says money from its GeForce GPUs climbed by 38 percent, pushing profits up by a third to reach $193 million. For the full year, total revenue climbed to $4.7 billion and net profits hit $630 million.

However, sales results of the company's micro-console, the Nvidia Shield, were not disclosed.

"Momentum is accelerating in each of our market-specialized platforms, driving record revenue in the quarter and full year," said the company's chief executive Jen-Hsun Huang.

Looking ahead, Nvidia will hold a presentation at the Game Developers Conference in March where the company is expected to reveal something that will "."

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VRFocus- Next months Game Developers Conference (GDC) will see a number of virtual reality (VR) compatible videogames on display. Included among these is Namazu Studios physics based puzzle title Nebulous. The title is set to release with support from Oculus Rift head-mounted display (HMD) on PC.

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XBA: At the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco last year, XBA was invited to an ID@Xbox showcase. At the time, Microsoft was getting grief for not providing the same level of indie support as PlayStation. It was a thing. People were upset. So we trundled down to The Mission district to see what Xbox was doing to fight back. The showcase was crammed with indies, both familiar and unfamiliar. Alongside hyped known upcoming games like Capys Super Time Force were quirky, inventive little Kinect experiments like Fru, made in 48 hours by a small team of Dutch devs. There was loads of good stuff there. But one game generated more buzz than anything else in the room. It was called #IDARB.

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Eurogamer: Less than one month from now, the Game Developers Conference - GDC - kicks off in San Francisco. Aside from the reveal of Sony's Project Morpheus VR concept last year, the show has been short of game-changing announcements in recent times - but this year's event promises to be different. A revitalised Microsoft will continue its drive to promote Windows 10 for gaming, while Valve is set to relaunch its delayed Steam Machine platform. We will be presented with two very different visions for the future of PC gaming, and while the specifics of the upcoming clash remain shrouded in mystery some nuggets of information are starting to come to light. Valve's pursuit of a truly open PC platform led to the beginning of the Steam Machine initiative, prompted by Microsoft's plans to erect a massive walled garden in Windows 8 in the form of the Windows Store. Nothing stopped users from running their own code on the OS of course, but the introduction of a Microsoft app store with...

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VRFocus- Half-Life developer and Steam owner Valve has a close relationship with virtual reality (VR) technology so far. Not only do several ex-employees now hold high level positions at Oculus VR, but the company even has its own head-mounted display (HMD) for internal testing, as pictured below. While the studio might not be planning to release its own kit for consumers to try out, Valve is more than happy to share its findings with anyone that will listening. To that end, one of the companys Graphics Programmers will be holding a session on VR rendering at the 2015 Game Developers Conference (GDC).