Valve will be speaking about its Linux/OpenGL advancements at SIGGRAPH 2012 next week. SIGGRAPH is where we usually hear about the latest OpenGL and DirectX news, too -- so stay tuned!

Since writing good, solid OpenGL code has been (and probably still is even with DX8) FAR easier than doing it in DirectX, OpenGL renderers tend to be better written than their DirectX counterparts.

The broad industry support Apple is building around OpenCL will help increase the critical mass behind OpenGL, the 2D and 3D graphics language Apple uses extensively in Mac OS X.

OpenGL and DirectX most likely will be following AMD Mantle API's footsteps by providing low-level access for video cards.

Ok, so I installed Max Payne the other day, went into the 3D setup thing, was kinda pissed at the lack of OpenGL support, but I figured D3D only sucks because it looks bad, but the performance ...

One of DirectX's three co-creators, Alex St. John, explains why Apple's Metal is such a blow to OpenGL, and what it means in the long run.

"OpenGL 4.0 exposes the same level of capability of GPUs as DirectX 11," the competing interface from Microsoft, Khronos said in a presentation. The company announced the new standard, along with ...

I was literally writing up my experiences with the beta of Parallels Desktop 3.0 when my BlackBerry buzzed with e-mail from Parallels saying that the product has gone live. Parallels is going to ...

ATI has released as open source an application that assists developers in converting Windows DirectX 9 HLSL graphics code into GLSL, which can be used on the Mac.

Microsoft is about to announce DirectX 11 later this month and obviously there is not any big noise about Ray Tracing support. Intel has to, and Intel does support DirectX and OpenGL and we are ...

If OpenGL is faster, why is DirectX still the predominant API? It isn't because of image quality or features: OpenGL 4.0 has all of shaders and tessellators and widgets that DX has.