Over at IGN they have an interview with both the producer and the lead designer of GRAW 2. One of the most interesting snippets for this audience:

"We've had a strong partnership with Aegia to provide the physics for this game and we've switched from using two providers to just one - Havok is gone."

The story goes on to talk briefly about how this affects gameplay. Have a read!

In what is sure to be exciting news to anyone holding a Physx card, Tech Report has reported that both Cell Factor: Revolution and Warmonger are going to be offered for free. We know that CF:R was heavily supported by Ageia as the original Cell Factor concept was a technology demo for Ageia, but Warmonger is a NetDevil property and is apparently chock full of Physx support. It is reported that Warmonger in fact will not work without a Physx card, which might explain why it is being offered free of charge. For the early adopters who purchased cards just under a year ago and have been waiting patiently for titles built around the Physx card, this is a great day as both titles are supposed to be available over the next month or so.

Another interesting component of this announcement that Warmonger is based on the Unreal 3 Engine. Other titles have been released based on this engine but this is one of the first titles to really leverage the physics implementation. I am eagerly waiting to get my hands on both titles, so look forward to some reviews soon!

During GDC a little company was showing off a very interesting technology. According to Ars Technica, Codeplay, the developer of a compiler called Sieve, has stumbled across one of the architectural secrets of the Ageia processor. Sieve is a compiler which takes single threaded code and optimizes for multithreaded cores. Currently it supports three processors - multicore x86, IBM cell, and Agieas PPU.

The author, Jon Stokes speculates that there are multiple cores sitting inside the Agiea die. It is certainly an interesting read and ties in with previous hints at porting the core to High Performance Computer applications.

Michael Steele, VP of marketing at Ageia was cornered for an interview at CDC by the folks over at Gamasutra. If you are into the "Pod" thing, wander on over and have a listen. The interview weighs in at 10 minutes, but he does talk about the upcoming year and some of the challenges Ageia faces.

Over at TheInquirer.net they have a story about Ageia going into certain Acer model computers:

"Acer will add the card to its range of Aspire E700 and E571 series desktop PCs."

This is exciting news as previously Ageia had loads of wins at the boutique / high level end but hadn't really made a dent in the large OEM market outside of a distribution deal with Dell.

Hopefully other OEM's take note and start to at minimum offer the card as an option at the system build phase.