A little over a year ago, PC graphics chip maker
Nvidia announced it was buying
Ageia, a company that was selling a hardware chip add-on for PCs and software tools specifically for improving game physics effects. Since then, Nvidia has incorporated Ageia's technology, known as
PhysX, into its driver updates for the
GeForce graphics chips. Today Nvidia announced that four upcoming games will incorporate PhysX support. In addition, Nvidia also announced that game publisher
Sega has licensed the PhysX tech for all of its worldwide studios.
The four new PhysX enabled PC games are
Terminator Salvation from developer
GRIN,
Dark Void from developer
Airtight Games and publisher
Capcom,
Darkest of Days from developer
8monkey Labs and
U-Wars from developer Biart Studios. Stay tuned as Big Download will have a feature article later this morning that will have more info on how these games will use PhysX.