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Unreal 4 Engine at Least Four Years Away

Mike Capps from Epic is one of the people invited at Microsoft's Gamefest 2008 to talk about games development using the Unreal 3 Engine, which is the most licensed middleware application in the world of videogames, and to detail the plans that Epic Games has regarding the future development of the engine.Tim Sw...

25 July 2008
07:54 GMT

Get Gears of War 2 and Read the Gears of War Trilogy

Epic Games has announced that it plans to put out a Gears of War novel trilogy, in partnership with Del Rey Books. The first book in the series seems to be set before the time frame of Gears of War 2 while the other two novels will probably tackle events that happen after the game, with the possibility of one of them...

23 July 2008
16:16 GMT

Epic Sets UT3 Xbox 360 Release Date

Unreal Tournament 3 is one of the most appreciated multiplayer first person shooter games and its bigger brother proved to the world that red teams usually win against blue teams. It also holds a few other records, among which the title of the first game to bring user-created content to PS3s. Not to mention the fact ...

13 June 2008
12:06 GMT

Epic Acquires Chair Entertainment

Epic Games is announcing that Chair Entertainment, the creator of the Xbox Live Arcade exclusive Undertow, powered by Epic's Unreal engine, will become a direct subsidiary of Epic, directly responsible for developing new games based on the Unreal engine.Chair Entertainment is a relatively new company, just found...

21 May 2008
02:56 GMT

Unreal Tournament 3 Coming to the Xbox

The Unreal 3 engine, created by Epic Games, has already spawned one huge success for the Xbox 360 gaming console from Microsoft in the form of Gears of War and is already powering the game that's set to again establish records on the console, Gears of War 2. But the main Unreal 3 powered offering, Unreal Tournam...

18 April 2008
18:06 GMT

Unreal 4 Far, Far Away

Epic Games is one of the biggest success stories of the videogame industry. They made a splash ten years ago with their instant hit Unreal, a game that pushed the limits of hardware while largely reinventing the genre of the FPS. Then, Unreal Tournament created a multiplayer culture and was the reason for many late n...

10 April 2008
03:09 GMT

Epic Offers 1 Million in Prizes

The second edition of Epic's community-oriented contest "Make Something Unreal" is upon us. Epic has revived the contest, which first took place in 2005, and is making a very tempting offer. The winner or winners are going to get an Unreal 3 license for free and the chance to develop a game built around it with ...

4 April 2008
03:14 GMT

Epic Signs to 'Illuminate' Unreal Engine 3

If you thought that Epic's famous Unreal Engine 3 couldn't get any better, you were wrong. Following a licensing agreement with Illuminate Labs, creators of rendering and lighting technology for next-generation games, Epic Games will be incorporating Illuminate Labs' global illumination system, Beast, ...

19 December 2007
02:44 GMT

Golden Times for PS3 Version of Unreal Tournament 3

The PlayStation 3 Version of Unreal Tournament 3 will be released to North American manufacturing and could show up in stores starting December 11th. The game has been approved by Sony Computer Entertainment America and the shipping will start on Monday, December 10th. The European release will occur later, though, b...

22 November 2007
10:31 GMT

PC Version of Gears of War Goes Gold

It's official, PC gamers, Gears of War for PC has gone gold. Microsoft Game Studios themselves have recently made the big announcement, also confirming that the game is set to hit store shelves on the 9th of November. And something every fan should know is that the PC version features new content and achievement...

20 October 2007
10:08 GMT

Unreal Tournament 3 Runs Better on PS3 Than It Does on the Xbox 360

In the next-gen console wars, Sony has just won a battle thanks to the latest statement of Mark Rein, vice president of Epic Games. He claims that Unreal Tournament 3 can only show its full potential on a Blu-ray disk, instead of the DVD used on the Xbox 360. Rein brought this up while attending the Edinburgh Intera...

15 August 2007
10:29 GMT

Gears of War

An Xbox 360 launch title coming straight from the producers of the brilliant Unreal Tournament first person shooter couldn't be an average game, or a good game... it has to be a superb title. Well, that would be mostly because it uses the Unreal Engine 3.0 technology and shows what Microsoft's next-gen con...

4 May 2007
11:35 GMT




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