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Epic Games Teases New Project Reveal at This Week’s 2011 Video Game Awards

The 2011 Spike TV Video Game Awards will premiere this weekend and already plenty of reveals are scheduled to happen during it, among which being a brand new project from Epic Games, the studio behind hit franchises like Gears of War or Unreal Tournament. The 2011 VGAs will be the place to be for any large games p...

7 December 2011
01:51 GMT

Alien Arena 7.52 Features Four New Maps

Alien Arena, a multiplayer shooter that relates to games like Quake 3 and Unreal Tournament, has just got a massive update. Alien Arena 7.52 brings changes and updates, but more importantly, it comes with four new maps: Dm-Goregrinder, Dm-Zorn2k11, Ctf-Violator, and Dm-Impact.Highlight of Alien Arena 7.52: · N...

30 November 2011
10:55 GMT

Epic Games Isn't Working on Unreal After Gears of War 3

Just after it has released Gears of War 3 into critical and commercial success, Epic Games, the developer of the series, has revealed that it's not going back to its dormant Unreal franchise, despite the fact that it's the series that put the company on the map in terms of shooters and graphics engines.Epic...

23 September 2011
03:37 GMT

Sept. 2011 Unreal SDK Adds Mac, Airplay Support

Epic Games is releasing its September 2011 Unreal Development Kit (UDK) Beta, a new version of the software development kit (SDK) for making video games that take advantage of the company’s Unreal Engine, and other technologies.“This month, we are thrilled to ship a new and improved UDK, now with Mac supp...

20 September 2011
03:52 GMT

Unreal Tournament Has Been Neglected, Epic Games Admits

Epic Games is getting ready to debut its blockbuster Gears of War 3 title in September, but this doesn't mean that it's forgotten about its ubiquitous Unreal Tournament series, as President Mike Capps has talked about the popular franchise recently. Epic Games is currently most famous for the Gears of Wa...

25 July 2011
14:21 GMT

Nexuiz 2.5.2 Review

Nexuiz is a first person shooter built in the spirit of old multiplayer games, like Quake and Unreal Tournament franchises. It retains the same feeling and great atmosphere that made these type of games really successful about 6 to 10 years ago, and, while Nexuiz may not fare too well these days, it's still grea...

17 June 2011
07:37 GMT

Playing Action Games Enhances Decision Making Ability

A team of scientists from the University of Rochester has discovered that those who play action video games are better able to make the right decision when they are under pressure mainly because of a increased sensitivity to the things that happen in the world around them.The study targeted both players and non gamer...

15 September 2010
13:21 GMT

Gears of War Developer Is Interested in the iPad

The talk of the technology world at the moment is the new iPad tablet computing solution unveiled by Apple. The device, which costs from 499 dollars upwards, is positioned to be another success for the company and given the impact the iPhone had on the world of gaming, taking a slice out of the market share of both t...

29 January 2010
17:01 GMT

Constructing Machines That Act like Humans

The second edition of the BotPrize contest, which aims at producing an artificial intelligence (AI) that cannot be distinguished from a live person in a virtual environment, has its roots deep in history, all the way to the 1950s. At the time, Alan Turing developed a test that held that a real AI was only achieved wh...

14 October 2009
09:45 GMT

Bleszinski: Epic Games Needs Competition

One of the biggest studios currently active in the gaming industry is Epic Games, which is responsible for franchises like Unreal Tournament or Gears of War. The company is also making a lot of money by licensing its Unreal Engine technology, which powers a lot of the current-generation video games through its most r...

6 July 2009
13:01 GMT

Cliff Blezinski Talks Gears of War 3, Horror Game

We all know that Gears of War 3 will be released, probably at some point in late 2010. But any new tidbit of information related to the third title in the franchise is still welcome news for the fans that have finished Gears of War 2 and all the extra content that developers Epic Games have put out since release.A pr...

22 June 2009
18:11 GMT

Epic Games Might Be Bought by Legendary Pictures

Epic Games is one of the most successful independent game developers out there, with hit titles such as Gears of War or Unreal Tournament under its belt. The company has survived a lot of hardships but now it is riding a big wave of profit, which will increase with the upcoming release of Gears of War 2.All of this s...

24 October 2008
11:01 GMT

Mark Rein Announces Expansion for Unreal Tournament 3

As we reported some time ago, Midway, the publisher of hit games like Mortal Kombat or Unreal Tournament, announced that it dropped several franchises in order to spend the little money it had left on other, more profitable titles. A lot of people began to wonder what titles Midway had given up on, and how severe the...

21 October 2008
16:01 GMT

New Rule: Red Beats Blue in Multiplayer

Whenever scientists are not conducting researches to prove that video games are bad for one's health, they tend to study some really important things and the results might prove to be really funny, in the end. It is exactly what happened with this latest study about video games conducted at the University of Cop...

12 June 2008
03:18 GMT

Midway Talks Future

Midway has released its financial results for 2007 to some disappointing reactions. The sales numbers for the whole year were $157.2 million, clearly down from the sales figure for last year of $165.6 million. Losses went up to $97.4 million, compared to 2006's number of $77.8 million. The president and CEO of M...

7 March 2008
04:35 GMT

Unreal Tournament III Server Available for Linux

Unreal Tournament (UT) III Linux Server is finally available and the good news is that you don't need a retail copy of UT3 to host games.The server comes as a complete package – a pretty large one, I may add – of 1.6 GB. After you download it, you must set the file as executable, and run it like an ordinary prog...

19 December 2007
05:08 GMT

Unreal Tournament III for Linux

The Unreal Tournament (UT) III Linux client will not be available in the box, together with the Windows client, but a downloadable Linux installer that works with the retail Windows disc will be developed, as the only Linux developer, Ryan C. Gordon said. The client will be optimized for Dual Core CPUs, so on all pla...

15 October 2007
04:18 GMT

Unreal Tournament 3 for Linux? Sure!

Epic Games, also known as Epic and formerly as Epic MegaGames, is a computer game development company based in Cary, North Carolina, United States. However, most of us know it as the creator of the Unreal Tournament game series, a real masterpiece I could say.Unreal Tournament, often abbreviated as UT, is one of tho...

21 August 2007
03:39 GMT

Epic-Gamespy Agreement for Multiplayer Support of Unreal Tournament 3

Epic and Unreal Tournament 3 will keep the headlines for a long time now and it's becoming increasingly difficult to limit ourselves to just one story a day about them. The recent partnership of Epic with Gamespy is such an example as Epic is creating the finishing touches for their hard-core multiplayer game.Th...

16 August 2007
05:15 GMT

Unreal Tournament 3 Could be Delayed for Xbox 360

If you're not familiar with the name of Unreal Tournament, you have been living on the moon this entire time and you must find out the name is practically synonym with revolution. Every time that some Epic official makes a statement on the forum the world stops and when Mark Rein is the one posting, there are us...

16 August 2007
04:42 GMT

40 (Or More) Maps for Unreal Tournament 3!

Who says Unreal Tournament is an old title? Actually, no one, and that's not even the point here. The point is that the latest issue of OXM (snatched by BeyondUnreal.com) showed loads of new CTF and DM maps for Epic's popular FPS, UT3. More than that, some maps are shown with vehicles, as the site informs b...

6 July 2007
05:34 GMT

Unreal Tournament Codes and Unlockables (PS2)

Unreal Tournament, UT, (sometimes referred to as UT99, UT Classic, UT1, or UT:GOTY to differentiate it from Unreal Tournament 2003, Unreal Tournament 2004, and Unreal Tournament 3) is a popular first-person shooter video game. It is Epic Games' 1999 follow-up title to Unreal and focuses mainly on multiplayer ac...

28 May 2007
06:52 GMT

Other Games than FPSs to be Developed with Unreal Engine 3

Everyone knows of the Epic's success with the Unreal Tournament franchise, due to their revolutionary Unreal Engine that makes it all happen on screen. And, as you probably knew already, Epic's job is mainly to make shooters, where the Unreal Engine comes in very handy to make things blow up or catch fire ...

22 March 2007
09:55 GMT


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