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May 14, 2010
Congratulations Remedy!
Remedy Entertainment released their new Xbox360 game "Alan Wake" today. Alan Wake is a psychological action thriller game that's inspired by TV shows such as Twin...
Apr 29, 2010
Umbra OB Documentation released
Umbra Occlusion Booster documentation has been released for general public on this website! The documentation includes API reference, overview of the sample...
Apr 22, 2010
Occlusion Booster 2.2.0 released
Umbra Occlusion Booster 2.2.0 for XBOX 360, PlayStation 3 and PC has been released! The new release has significant memory optimizations as well as number of small...
Jan 26, 2010
BioWare Launches Mass Effect 2 to Intergalactic Acclaim
We want to join the world and congratulate our long time partner Bioware™ in welcoming back Commander Shepard!! We are sure that Mass Effect 2 with its intense...
Dec 18, 2009
Umbra Occlusion Booster 2.1.1 released
Umbra Occlusion Booster 2.1.1 release is now out! This is a patch release that contains miscellaneous small fixes.
Dec 2, 2009
Umbra Occlusion Booster 2.1.0 released
Umbra OB 2.1.0 is now available. The new version includes the following improvements among others:
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Nov 18, 2009
Intel's case study on Umbra Software
Intel published a case study of Umbra Software and our technology a while ago. Here's a short article on why Intel considers us a success story:
Nov 4, 2009
Umbra Software Licenses Visibility Optimization Solutions Software to BioWare
SEATTLE--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Umbra Software Ltd., developers of highly-acclaimed Umbra occlusion culling technology, announced today that BioWareTM, a...
Nov 2, 2009
Umbra Occlusion Booster out
Umbra Software has released Umbra Occlusion Booster for PC, Xbox360 and PS3. Umbra OB is the third generation of Umbra Software's rendering optimization...
Oct 8, 2009
Guild Wars 2 video
ArenaNet, our long-time customer, has released a promo video of their upcoming title Guild Wars 2. Go check out the Guild Wars 2 promo video at
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Jul 3, 2009
Umbra partners up with Intel
Umbra Software has partnered up with Intel. Umbra Software worked closely with Intel while developing Umbra's new middleware. Umbra Occlusion Booster is a rendering...
Jun 5, 2009
Alan Wake using Umbra
Highly acclaimed Finnish developer Remedy Entertainment announced that their new title Alan Wake will be released in Q1 2010. Remedy Entertainment uses Umbra...
Nov 17, 2008
Turbine Selects Umbra
Seattle, Washington. - November 17, 2008 – Umbra Software Ltd., developers of highly-acclaimed Umbra occlusion culling technology, announced today that Turbine,...
Oct 27, 2008
ArenaNet® Licenses Umbra for Guild Wars 2
BELLEVUE, Wash.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Umbra Software Ltd., developers of highly-acclaimed Umbra occlusion culling technology, announced today that ArenaNet, Inc. licensed...
Sep 18, 2008
CCP licenses Umbra
Austin Game Developers Conference 2008 AUSTIN, Texas -- September 17, 2008 -- CCP publisher of EVE Online, the critically-acclaimed, science fiction-based massively...
Sep 3, 2008
Umbra Hiring
Umbra Software is looking for extremely talented programmers to join our world class team. Go check the open positions from our jobs...
May 27, 2008
Age of Conan using Umbra
FunCom broke records when they released their awaited MMO game "Age of Conan - Hyborian...
May 26, 2008
Umbra giving a lecture in Gamefest 2008
Umbra will be giving a lecture "Visibility optimization for games" in Microsofts Gamefest 2008 held in Seattle WA on the 22nd...
Feb 20, 2008
See the Umbra show reel at GDC
Umbra Software is attending GDC as of today, and in celebration of this year's event we updated the site, and present a new...
Sep 7, 2007
Umbra Now Unreal 3 Integrated Partner
Umbra Software joins Epic's Unreal® Engine 3 Integrated Partners Program. Austin, TX -- September 7, 2007- Umbra Software Ltd., the visibility optimization experts,...
Sep 6, 2006
Umbra acquires Hybrid’s dPVS
Umbra Software Ltd. Completes Acquisition of Hybrid Graphics’ dPVS Visibility Middleware. Austin Game Conference, Texas, September 6th, 2006 -- Umbra Software Ltd....
Sep 5, 2006
Umbra available for Gamebryo Element
Emergent Game Technologies today announced a strategic partnership with Umbra Software that will bring Umbra's dPVS technology to the Gamebryo Element, Emergent's...
Feb 18, 2005
Umbra integrated in BigWorld Suite
BigWorld, a provider of Massively Multiplayer Online Game (MMOG) platforms announced that it has partnered with visibility optimization solutions provider Umbra...