Mar 20
The Sony PlayStation 4 brought with it a significantly revamped DualShock 4 controller. There’s a light bar on the controller itself, and while it does provide a really cool effect, it does feed on the controller’s battery. Some gamers would prefer to cut down on the novelty as much as they can if it helps extend the DualShock 4′s battery life even if in the slightest. If you’re one of those gamers, fret not, Sony has a fix in mind. Head of PlayStation Worldwide Studios at Sony, Shuhei Yoshida, has confirmed at the Game Developers Conference 2014 today that a software fix will bring the option to dim the PS4 DualShock 4 light bar.
PS4 DualShock 4 Light Bar Dim Option Coming In Next Update original content from Ubergizmo. 
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Microsoft has just finished presenting its preview of DirectX 12 (Direct3D 12 in particular), their newest graphics API (Application Programming Interface) which lets game developers control graphics processing units (GPUs) in games and other graphics applications. Although DirectX has been an excellent graphics API since DirectX 8, Microsoft’s DirectX 12 is going to address long-standing issues that were carried out until DirectX 11. As a result, developers will get the level of control that they are asking for and DirectX 12 is going to make much better use of both the main processor (CPU) and GPUs available in the system. From a developer’s point of view, this brings “console-like” control and efficiency, but wrapped in a standard API. 
The devil’s in the details, or so the saying goes. For those of you who have spent the better part of your past few years getting social on Facebook while indulging in the 
Earlier we reported that Epic Games had announced during GDC 2014 that Unreal Engine 4 would become a subscription-based product, in which developers will be able to access the engine, editors, and even the source code 
