Nvidia provides free physics tools for PS3 developers

Sorry off topic, but I did get a laugh out of the "surprise her with a bigger penis" ad that's halfway down the page. That chick doesn't exactly look surprised. More like...confused and slightly angry.

the best things in life are free.

Now, it has to be a little bit of a sign if they are just GIVING away dev kits now.

Not the best game out there? That's a little bit of a liberal interpretation.

As a UC fan, I believe I cried watching videos of it at one point.

Gundam crossfire? isn't that game in which Giant Robots fall and get up...in space?

Majed great job and lagging behind, Engadget freaking got this news like 5 hours ago!
then again, you guys are just human...

It's blatant at this point in time that PhysX isn't going to mean much to anyone until (unless) it is universally adopted. To take advantage of what PhysX has to offer, you've got to build a game around it. If you don't, the only thing you can do with it is cloth physics, or hair physics (for instance). Sony is the only studio that would be willing to create a PhysX game for the PS3, because they are the only studio that wouldn't need to worry about porting the game to the 360. It simply couldn't be implemented properly for a multi-platform title. Therein lies the problem, since no PC dev will commit to it (since a good deal of the market doesn't have the hardware), and no multi-platform console dev will commit to it because they want their games to be able to run on both consoles.

I'd say Havok doesn't have anything to fear this gen. Next gen though? If MSoft gets on board with PhysX, and Sony stays on board, we could really start to see some games that take real advantage of it. It's exciting, but then again, it's unlikely.

what I expect is small games like Noby Noby Boy using PhysX to add more fun.

This has not even caught on in the PC world where it has been around for sometime, don't expect much out of this, I think Nvidia is just trying to salvage something out of PhysX

@ BananaBoat. Nvidia Physix is actually Ageais Physics. they bouth it from them. And the pc marked now is huge with physix because of nvidia. You now can run it on any nvidia geforce8 and up video card. Thats a big numer right there compared to the people who have the ageia physics card. and its not that difficult to make a phsyics game multiplatform on consoles because its all done in software and not hardware like the pc. clive barkers jericho, rainbow six vegas games all use ageia physics software.

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Actually, Valkyria Chronicles uses Physx. Or at least it has the logo on the box.

Anyway, I hope we can see a mirror's edge patch, for example, with the PC Physx features. I'm expecting that some exclusives will use it, as it's real useful (working from de GPU is good for the overall performance). Ciao!!