Announcements
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Dark Relic Lore Section
Jan 06, 2012 AnnouncementsWe are pleased to announce that we have our new Dark Relic Lore section up and running. There are a few stories that you may have seen, however our writers are hard at work. Our writers have been hard at work for the last yea… Continue Reading..34 -
EastWest Quantum Leap Licensed
Dec 14, 2011 AnnouncementsTGS is very happy to announce that we have obtained a license for East West Quantum Leap Composers Collection. What does this mean to you? This collection has over 300gigabytes of Orchestra Percussion kits and even more VST's… Continue Reading..112 -
Esenthel Engine Licensed
Mar 02, 2009 AnnouncementsTriad Game Studios, LLC., a developer of online interactive entertainment software, announced that it has licensed the Esenthel Engine for our demo and single player game currently in development. We are a newly founded studi… Continue Reading..278 -
HeroEngine Licensed
Sep 30, 2010 AnnouncementsTriad Game Studios is proud to announce that we have licensed the HeroEngine for the upcoming game Dark Relic. This is our second engine deal and will provide a well rounded MMORPG for players to experience the most they can … Continue Reading..298 -
SpeedTree Aquired
Oct 01, 2010 AnnouncementsSpeedTree has been acquired through HeroEngine and we are currently working on some new trees to add to the game. So we are now working hard on creating some beautiful life like trees that will help bring the world of Neithus… Continue Reading..396 -
Welcome AlienSlof
Mar 08, 2011 AnnouncementsWe are proud to welcome AlienSlof as one of our new 3D Graphic Artists. Her work is well known in The Elder Scrolls modding commumity for many wonderful mods and addons for both Morrowind and Oblivion. She is widely known for… Continue Reading..429
Community News
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Steven Pugh - Welcome our new Co-writer!
Oct 29, 2011 Community NewsI would like to welcome Steven Pugh to the Triad Games team as our new co-writer alongside Ben Phillips. Steve as a great passion for fantasy that started when he was much younger than he is now and his passion grows every da… Continue Reading..83 -
Tornados Hit Alabama
May 07, 2011 Community NewsOn 27 April, 2011 a large storm front came through Alabama. This large storm started in Mississippi ran across Alabama and finaly ended the devistation in North Carolina. Alabama was the hardest hit with 310 confermed seperat… Continue Reading..235 -
Welcome Sinduja
Oct 25, 2011 Community NewsWe are very pleased to welcome our new 3D Modeller and Rigger, Sinduja. She has a great passion for Modelling and we are excited to see what she can bring to the team. Speaking to her earlier today she has informed me that sh… Continue Reading..130 -
Welcome to our new Writer - Ben Phillips
Oct 21, 2011 Community NewsWe are happy to announce that Ben Phillips (A.k.a – Sabarel Tatheth) has decided to join Triad Games as our Senior Writer and Loremaster. Although he is not very well known outside of certain RP communities he has a passion … Continue Reading..83
Dev Journals
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Character Customization
Sep 29, 2010 Dev JournalsSo you want a game where you can create your own look on a character? Well that is what I will be prattling on today about. Most players enjoy creating their own look on a character whether they admit it or not. I can remembe… Continue Reading..52 -
Crazy mad ideas
Nov 13, 2011 Dev JournalsSo, right now I'm working on the human prologue, as well as five short stories for players to find early on. Currently I'm about 1/3 of the way through the first one, with a rough idea on the second. I'm hoping from the first… Continue Reading..103 -
Engine Development...
Jul 20, 2010 Dev JournalsA side project of mine for quite some time now has been developing a game engine. There are no specific lofty goals at this time for this engine although if developments proceeds well and the end result is satisfactory, that … Continue Reading..38 -
Game Lingo and Language
Jan 13, 2008 Dev JournalsGame Lingo Introduction: The Questions Throughout history words and the meaning of words have changed. Within the gaming industry, this is no different. Since gaming has become popular in the last 15 years, words and their me… Continue Reading..44 -
Game Lingo Part 2
Mar 17, 2008 Dev JournalsRole Play Games: Talk the Talk... Now that we have the basics and paid homage to those that helped us get where we are today, what does this have to do with the game lingo we see today in our favorite RPG’s? Some of our basic… Continue Reading..45 -
Game lingo Part 3
Apr 26, 2008 Dev JournalsConflict in the Community: Same Word, Different Meanings Though there are several words that apply to clerics, game styles and even genre, we also have those words that have dual meaning depending on the game you are playing.… Continue Reading..44 -
How Big is Too Big?
Aug 12, 2009 Dev JournalsGame designers always go through and try to figure out what is the perfect size game world for an MMO. Of course, the bigger the better right? That is not always the case. In fact, often times you can find once you start addi… Continue Reading..47 -
Lore writing
Sep 28, 2011 Dev JournalsSpent most of today just sorting stuff out. The next couple of weeks for me will be spent working on the Lore Timeline for the GDD aswell as working on the formation of the five elven nations between the times of 1127 and 116… Continue Reading..62 -
music shipment GONE WILD!!
Nov 18, 2011 Dev JournalsOk so as most of you know I recently purchased a huge $1,000 VSTi package which consists of 8 crazy awesome music programs that are used in almost every movie you have seen in the last 5 years. This is going to be AWESOME for… Continue Reading..65
Site Updates
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Dark Relic Music is Here
Aug 28, 2011 Web UpdatesWe are very happy to announce that the Audio section under Media is now live. Here you can view a few samples of music that is present in our latest endeavor Dark Relic. A special thanks goes out to Jesse and his team for cre… Continue Reading..185 -
Forum Features and Updates
Nov 23, 2010 Web UpdatesThe staff at Dark Relic are very happy to announce that more features have been enabled and or updated for both the site and the forum. The forum now has a range of themes that you, the user can select. … Continue Reading..392 -
Our New Website
Sep 23, 2010 Web UpdatesWelcome to Dark Relic's new website. this is a work in progress which will provide you a window in to the world of Neithus. Visit with us for news of our upcoming game and meet with our development team. Some of our new and o… Continue Reading..264 -
Player Network
Jul 05, 2010 Web UpdatesPlayer Network: Where gamers meet Dark Relic is proud to announce that the Player Network is now open. The player network has been developed for you, the player, to be able to set up your own space on Dark Relic and meet up w… Continue Reading..243 -
Updated Servers
Sep 30, 2010 Web UpdatesLets Make it Better, Faster and Stronger! We have finaly updated our servers and most of the website. There are still a few things that are in the works, but keep checking back for more news. What does this mean for you? It m… Continue Reading..335 -
Website Changes
Aug 12, 2011 Web UpdatesMighty Changes for a Mighty Site: As many of you may have noticed, we are currently going through a lot of changes right now. With feedback from the community and members, we are working hard at bringing you the best site pos… Continue Reading..125
Tech News
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A Folding Farm PC Made of Lego
Jul 19, 2011 Tech newsThe ultimate DIY job....… Continue Reading..47 -
Acer Launching Tegra 2 Laptop Next Week?
Jul 23, 2011 Tech newsAcer is looking to regain some profit by releasing the "world's first" Nvidia Tegra 2 "laptop" along with Android 3.2 tablets and an Intel-based ultrabook....… Continue Reading..146 -
Adler Planetarium Blasts Off With World’s Most Advanced Digital Theater
Jul 08, 2011 Tech newsIt’s the ultimate technology upgrade.After two years of construction, Chicago’s Adler Planetarium reopens today, after replacing its 40-year-old star projector with a supercomputer that drives 20 military-grade projectors.The… Continue Reading..25 -
Adobe NVIDIA Team Up for Ray Traced Compositing
Aug 09, 2011 Tech newsOne thing you’re going to want to check out at SIGGRAPH 2011 in Vancouver is the Adobe pod within the NVIDIA booth, where Adobe is showcasing an experimental technology demo of GPU ray tracing for motion graphics.By using ray… Continue Reading..73 -
AMD Expected to Regain Market Share
Jun 30, 2011 Tech newsAnalysts today said that AMD got slaughtered by Intel in the first quarter of the year, but Forbes believes that Llano will help the company to regain market share....… Continue Reading..35 -
AMD Reports Quarterly Earnings for Q2 2011
Jul 23, 2011 Tech newsAMD yesterday followed a slew of companies announcing quarterly financial results and revealed the closing figures for its own Q2 2011....… Continue Reading..157 -
AMD Won't Endorse SYSmark 2012 Benchmark
Jun 22, 2011 Tech newsAMD claims that SYSmark 2012 is "misleading" and doesn't offer "clear and reliable measurements." Ouch....… Continue Reading..34 -
AMD: Xbox 720 to Have Avatar-level Graphics
Jul 19, 2011 Tech newsWe've been hearing snippets of information about the Xbox 720 over the last few weeks and now AMD has put its two cents in....… Continue Reading..53 -
An Inspiring Morning
Aug 04, 2011 Tech newsI was approached a couple weeks ago by the NVIDIA Foundation – which directs the company’s non-profit activities – to speak to participants in a Silicon Valley summer program. And when I found it was a group of Breakthrough S… Continue Reading..35 -
And The Winners Of The NVArt 6 Competition Are…
Aug 10, 2011 Tech newsAfter some serious deliberation, we’re proud to announce that NVIDIA and CGSociety.org have chosen the winners of the sixth annual NVArt competition. It was no easy task, but we’ve whittled down the playing field to just six … Continue Reading..141 -
Apple Planning to Make A6 Processor at TSMC
Jul 25, 2011 Tech newsApple changing fabs?...… Continue Reading..154 -
ARM to Challenge Intel's Dominance in Notebooks
Jul 21, 2011 Tech newsMarket research firm IHS believes that Intel's 30-year processor dominance in notebooks may get serious competition from ARM....… Continue Reading..104 -
ASRock Teams With Fatal1ty For AMD MoBo
Jul 16, 2011 Tech newsASRock and Fatal1ty teamed up to offer a gaming motherboard based on AMD's new 990FX chipset....… Continue Reading..148 -
Audi and NVIDIA Bring ‘Technology To The People’
Aug 05, 2011 Tech newsAudi already packs impressive electronics payloads into their vehicles. For the future, the automaker is looking to NVIDIA GPUs to further improve its driver-safety systems.NVIDIA and the Audi Electronics Research Laboratory … Continue Reading..41 -
BAPCo Bites Back at AMD's Departure
Jun 23, 2011 Tech newsBAPCo responded to AMD's allegations about SYSmark 2012 and the benchmark's alleged favoritism for another CPU manufacturer....… Continue Reading..30 -
Chip Inventories Rise Again in Q2
Jul 08, 2011 Tech newsSemiconductor inventory levels continue to rise, according to IHS iSuppli....… Continue Reading..49 -
Colossus Brings Internal HDMI Recording to PC
Jul 13, 2011 Tech newsNow you can record unencrypted HDMI and component video feeds with Hauppauge's new internal PCI Express video capture card....… Continue Reading..44 -
CUDA Engineer Takes a Busman’s Holiday in Turkey
Jul 07, 2011 Tech newsSummer is in full swing here in the Northern Hemisphere, and that means NVIDIA’s Silicon Valley-based software engineers, like the CUDA Software team’s own Elif Albuz, get to take some well-deserved vacation time.But a CUDA e… Continue Reading..26 -
DDR3 Modules to Near 90% Market Share in 2011
Jun 28, 2011 Tech newsDDR3 memory will climb to a dominant market range of almost 90% this year, market researchers from IHS iSuppli said today....… Continue Reading..36 -
Decorating Our Moscow Office, Gamer-style [Time Lapse Video]
Jul 12, 2011 Tech newsNVIDIA’s Russia office recently moved into new digs in Moscow to accommodate our growing R&a&team. The team works closely with game developers and so, when it came to decorating the new place, we wanted to imbue it with a str… Continue Reading..33 -
Drexel University Blasts Off To Big Science
Jul 21, 2011 Tech newsAs an aspiring space adventurer it was a bittersweet moment for me today as the space shuttle Atlantis landed at the Kennedy Space Center after its final mission. While Atlantis marks the end of NASA’s space shuttle program, … Continue Reading..31 -
Fight Global Warming with GPU Computing and C++!
Jul 01, 2011 Tech newsSeveral weeks ago, Microsoft announced C++ AMP , an extension to C++ for GPU computing. As a C++ enthusiast and GPU architect at NVIDIA, I couldn’t be more excited. Visual C++, one of my favorite programming tools, is being u… Continue Reading..30 -
Flash Virtualization Software Unveiled
Jul 01, 2011 Tech newsFlashSoft announced that it has secured $3 million in financing and used that opportunity to come out of hiding and provide a few details about its flash virtualization software, called FlashSoft SE....… Continue Reading..30 -
Gartner Pessimistic About Chip Industry This Year
Jun 24, 2011 Tech newsGartner reduced its forecast for the semiconductor industry from growth of 6.2% to only 5.1%....… Continue Reading..41 -
GPU Technology Conference 1,000 Strong in Tokyo
Jul 28, 2011 Tech newsOur first GPU Technology Conference (GTC) Japan took place last week in Roppongi, Tokyo. Co-hosted by NVIDIA and the Tokyo Institute of Technology, GTC Japan played host to nearly 1,000 attendees at the Tokyo Midtown Hall.The… Continue Reading..96 -
Hands-on with the Tegra-Powered Samsung Galaxy R Android Super Phone
Aug 10, 2011 Tech newsSamsung’s Galaxy smartphone family just got a little bit bigger with the upcoming Samsung Galaxy R. Let’s take a quick hands-on look at this new Tegra 2-powered super phone.Samsung has outfitted the Galaxy R with a 4.19-inch … Continue Reading..104 -
Having Fun With 3D Vision Surround Racing Simulators – It’s Time To Race
Aug 07, 2011 Tech newsNVIDIAns work hard, and we play even harder. When we race virtual racecars, for example, we use state-of-the-art tech – and we have pictures to prove it.A Trinity Racing Concepts racecar simulator.Trinity Racing Concepts – a … Continue Reading..50 -
IBM Develops Memory 100x Faster Than Flash
Jul 04, 2011 Tech newsThe memory of the future?...… Continue Reading..81 -
Intel Announces Record Quarterly Earnings for Q2
Jul 21, 2011 Tech newsIntel has reported yet another record financial quarter for Q2 2011....… Continue Reading..133 -
Intel Releases ULV 17-watt Sandy Bridge CPUs
Jun 22, 2011 Tech newsLow power for the speed....… Continue Reading..31 -
Is There Still Hope Left in the Future of the PC?
Jul 25, 2011 Tech newsAMD, Intel and Microsoft have all presented quarter reports that were well above analyst expectations. Despite the depressed mood in the economy, there are tremendous growth and record profits. Yet, as so often, the devil is … Continue Reading..153 -
J.P. Morgan Achieves 40X Speed-up, Greater Insights, In Risk Computation With Tesla GPUs
Aug 05, 2011 Tech newsTesla GPUs continue to drive ground-breaking advantages for all types of industries with demanding computational requirements. The financial industry is the latest example.Yesterday, we announced that J.P. Morgan, the world’s… Continue Reading..48 -
Japan Chip Supply Chain Fully Recovered by Q3
Jun 30, 2011 Tech newsWhile the disastrous earthquake in Japan will remain in our memory for years to come, it appears that businesses in Japan have made astonishing progress to bring back their production....… Continue Reading..33 -
Joining Forces with Beijing Genomics Institute for GPU acceleration
Jul 06, 2011 Tech news[Update] Headline updatedNVIDIA is joining forces with the Beijing Genomics Institute (BGI) to create a Joint Innovation Lab, tasked with advancing bioinformatics applications through the use of GPU acceleration. Our objectiv… Continue Reading..27 -
MIT Advances E-Beam Lithography for Chips
Jul 01, 2011 Tech newsResearchers at MIT consider e-beam lithography as a potential future candidate for semiconductor mass production....… Continue Reading..28 -
New Cornell Collaboration Explores GPU Computing Using MATLAB
Jul 19, 2011 Tech newsThe Cornell University Center for Advanced Computing (CAC) today announced an exciting new research collaboration between ourselves, NVIDIA, Dell and MathWorks . The goal of this newly formed group is to explore the capabilit… Continue Reading..30 -
Nvidia Boasts New Laptop GPU With DX11 Crysis 2
Jun 29, 2011 Tech newsYes, it plays very well....… Continue Reading..37 -
Nvidia Intros Beta Driver Supporting SLI on AMD 900 Series
Jun 22, 2011 Tech newsAlthough SLI-certified AMD motherboards have been available for some time, Nvidia just released a set of beta drivers to unlock the requested feature....… Continue Reading..28 -
NVIDIA Photorealistic Rendering Technology Demo At SIGGRAPH 2011
Aug 10, 2011 Tech newsSIGGRAPH has traditionally been the conference at which NVIDIA’s Advanced Rendering Center’s innovations have been announced, and this year is no exception. We’re proud to unveil Autodesk’s upcoming 3ds Max 2012 Subscription … Continue Reading..129 -
NVIDIA Supports Tomorrow’s Computer Graphics Professionals
Aug 08, 2011 Tech newsThey may be students today. But in a few years, teens in the SIGGRAPH Pioneer Mentoring: Spend A Week At SIGGRAPH program will begin coming into their own as the next-generation of computer graphics artists.The NVIDIA Foundat… Continue Reading..57 -
Patent Troll Claims Notebook Cooling Rights
Jul 08, 2011 Tech newsThe way notebook processors get cooled can be patented and monetized, apparently....… Continue Reading..50 -
PCIe 3.0 is Here; PCIe 4.0 Already in the Works
Jun 28, 2011 Tech newsTons more bandwidth for future applications....… Continue Reading..27 -
Power Consumption Solved: Magnetic Processors
Jul 06, 2011 Tech newsAll right, let's be optimistic here: it's not going to entirely wipe power-hungry processors and memory off the charts anytime soon....… Continue Reading..40 -
Quad-Core CPUs in Half of All Notebooks in 2015
Jul 14, 2011 Tech newsQuad-core processors appear to finally due to enter the mainstream in mobile computers, according to a forecast released by IHS iSuppli....… Continue Reading..55 -
Radeon HD 6990M is ''World's Fastest'' Mobile GPU
Jul 13, 2011 Tech newsA new king of laptop Crysis....… Continue Reading..54 -
SIGGRAPH Attendees Flock to NVIDIA for Graphics Tech Talks
Aug 11, 2011 Tech newsNVIDIA didn’t just show off snazzy, new computer graphics and design technologies at SIGGRAPH 2011, we also helped SIGGRAPH attendees get up to speed on the latest tools of the trade with various tech talks, theater presentat… Continue Reading..103 -
Sony Vaio Z Has External Radeon Light Peak GPU
Jun 29, 2011 Tech newsThe best of both worlds for the roadwarrior and desktop replacement....… Continue Reading..27 -
The Audi A7 Does High-Tech In High-Style
Jul 18, 2011 Tech newsScott Budman, from NBC’s TechNow program, which runs in most California markets, just carried a story about the new Audi A7. We’re starting to see more Audi A7 models on the road, and it’s clearly a beautiful, sleek car. But,… Continue Reading..31 -
VIA Selling S3 Graphics to HTC
Jul 07, 2011 Tech newsVIA has signed a deal to sell off S3 Graphics to smartphone manufacturer HTC for $300 Million...… Continue Reading..46















































