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It's happy wedding season in the gaming industry.

Ever since Nvidia announced their free PhysX packs, several game developers and publishers have announced the marriage of their games and gaming engines with PhysX. It's happy wedding season in the gaming industry.

So what is PhysX technology?

PhysX is a package of tools that contain a physics engine, flexible API, and middleware that are designed for developers and animators to preview and author the game physics to be incorporated in real time. Several gaming platforms like Wii, PS3, Xbox 360, and PC, can be exploited for respective CPU and GPU acceleration with PhysX as well as using CUDA environment for general purpose parallel computing processors.

As per recent updates, Nvidia PhysX technology will be integrated in Emergent's Gamebryo game engine, which has been used in games like Warhammer Online. Emergent's future game titles will be integrated with PhysX support. Following that, Epic's Unreal popular game engine also offers integrated PhysX support for the further development of games.

In addition to that Nvidia has also tied up with Futuremark Games Studio for incorporation of PhysX technology in their upcoming FPS title, Shattered Horizon. Currently, about 150 games already have PhysX support and 25 more games will be launched with PhysX support by the end of this year.

Recently Capcom, Grin and Nvidia released Bionic Commando with PhysX support. Other games with integrated PhysX support are APB, Cryostasis, Backbreaker, Aliens: Colonel Marines, Nurien, Metal Knight Zero and Divinity 2: Ego Draconics.

Nvidia's CUDA technology is also pacing ahead in several areas. TMPGenc encoding software maker Pegasys, along with Nvidia, has announced new version of the software. The new TMPGenc will use GPU-acceleration with GeForce GPUs and is expected to boost the encoding speed by 450%.

What do gamers get out of PhysX support games and hardware? With GeForce graphics cards, gamers can enter into completely interactive gaming environment. For instance, in a typical shooting or action game, the player can kill the enemies by launching missiles or dynamites that blast right through the walls, making for more involved gameplay and a dynamic gaming environment.

Source: Techtree.com