Ageia
Technologies has quietly slashed pricing of physics accelerators based on
its PhysX PPU and also said Wednesday that during holiday season it would bundle
$100 worth game along with every physics accelerator board. The titles in
question will be City of Villains, Bet on Soldier: Blood of Sahara, and Tom
Clancy's Ghost Recon Advanced Warfighter, all of which have support for PhysX
hardware acceleration. In addition, the bundle will also include a demo of
CellFactor: Combat Training, a prequel to the highly anticipated CellFactor:
Revolution game to be released later this year.
Meanwhile, Ageia Technologies' add-in card partners - Asustek and BFG - have
quietly reduced pricing of the PhysX add-in cards with 128MB 733MHz GDDR3 memory
designed for PCI bus to $179 - $249, down from $299 initially. Price reduction
along with the enrichment of the product bundle should make the PhysX
accelerators more appealing for customers.