Microsoft has announced that it will be showing the next version of DirectX on March 20th at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. The existence of DirectX 12 — the latest in a long-running line of API collections designed to enable Microsoft platforms to handle video game and multimedia tasks — was announced via a Microsoft teaser site and supported with a tweet from a dedicated DirectX 12 Twitter account. Rumors of our demise have been greatly exaggerated… #DirectX12 is coming to #GDC http://t.co/cLyhBwnNav — DirectX 12 (@DirectX12) March 5, 2014 More details will be outlined on stage at GDC 2014 in a sponsored session called DirectX: Evolving Microsofts Graphics Platform, presented by Microsofts Anuj Gosalia.