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    Steve Watts posted a new article, Unreal Engine 4 ready 'around 2014,' Epic says.

    Epic CEO Tim Sweeney talks about the current development of Unreal Engine 4, and the challenge of designing for multi-core systems.
    Sep 27, 2011 8:00am PDT
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    Steve Watts posted a new article, Unreal Engine 4 ready 'around 2014,' Epic says.

    Epic CEO Tim Sweeney talks about the current development of Unreal Engine 4, and the challenge of designing for multi-core systems. : ShacknewsThis person is cool!

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    • Awesome news I can not wait to see version 4, as well I can not wait to see the next consoles its going t... : valcan_sThis person is cool!
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      Translation: Xbox 720 release date: 2014 : kaddar0
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        :) this totally ^^ man its seems like such a long way till the next consoles, I am sure we will see crazy... : valcan_sThis person is cool!
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          You know what'd be cool, valcan? Getting rich and then hiring some guy to maintain the best possible gami... : Marrbe
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            Personally, I'd rather spend it on maintaining a LAN center with like 50 pc's all decked out and upgraded... : one random winner
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              Yeah that be cool, my castle would have a LAN hall where Shackers with VIP passes could come by any day a... : valcan_sThis person is cool!
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                I have this dream for a totally unsustainable business based around that. It'd be like mixing an arcade ... : one random winner
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                  Nice, same here, basically a gaming night/day club for gamers been wanting to do that forever I am not su... : valcan_sThis person is cool!
                  • Aye, I'll definitely keep the shack informed should I ever get the cash to go forth with such an endeavor... : one random winner
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                  But it would be an awesome retirement community. : steauengeglaseThis person is cool!
                  • Yup, old folks home for those born in the digital age. : one random winner
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                Obviously it's in a castle. Obviously! : Chipwarrior
                • Would help maintain the heating costs a bit. : one random winner
              • Work beer and food in there somehow. : SockMonkehThis person is cool!
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            LOL he be like Igor, and say "Master your rig has been upgraded" and I would live in a castle, that would... : valcan_sThis person is cool!
            • I would hire Richard Ridings (Dungeon Keeper 1 and 2 mentor) to do the voice. : Marrbe
          • could have a cooled server room to house all of these. wouldn't even need a case. the room is the case! : dantasticThis person is cool!
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            I'd also want the whatever the highest res/best projector at the time was to blast that puppy's graphics ... : ughhhhhhh
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              http://theaterprojector.org/the-top-ten-most-awesomest-home-theaters-money-can-buy skip all the way down ... : one random winner
              • Yeah, that's what I'm talking about! I think I've seen that room on a show before but one of those theate... : ughhhhhhh
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                Awesome, yeah we would have a bunch of those you know we have to watch movies when we where burnt out fro... : valcan_sThis person is cool!
                • I bet somewhere there's a group of people that went together to fund their own place, with scheduled view... : Marrbe
              • #2!! its the fucking Bat Cave!!! I'd live in there like Batman with muh bats. : technotica
          • Marrbe you know god damned well they'd need 120Hz monitors and not just the highest res ones. : DinKThis person is cool!
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        That's a 2 year lead for the Wii U, you could have another version of it out in 2016 at that rate, Ninten... : one random winner
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          Not a bad place to be, maybe. People who aren't gamers will buy it whenever, and people who are gamers mi... : BlackCat9This person is cool!
          • Last company that did that was Sega, just saying. : one random winner
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        Man, 9 years is an epic run for a console generation. I remember generations lasting 4-5 years in the pa... : pigvomitThis person is cool!
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          The PS2 effectively ran until a year or two ago (Sony was still trumpeting PS2 sales, and there are still... : the archvileThis person is cool!
          • I'm talking about a console generation. The 360 came out 5 years after the PS2. : pigvomitThis person is cool!
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      Think they will ever fix the mouse code? : BeadyThis person is cool!
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        I don't think they'll ever figure it out. : Pneum0This person is cool!
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          Quite the opposite, they'll devote a core or two to give all games the authentic feeling of trudging thro... : steauengeglaseThis person is cool!
          • Then they'll advertise it as a feature of the game, calling it a "sense of weight". : ManiacalMoose
      • That is the worst tragedy here: Epic nailed mousecode in UT99 (Dan Vogel renderer), held close to it in U... : the archvileThis person is cool!
      • I thought UT3's mouse code was really good, actually. Which games got it wrong? : passingstranger
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      i still remember being blown away by the Unreal Engine 2 Tech Demo http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmE9hv... : KorbanThis person is cool!
      • We were so young and innocent : EricZBA
      • That eventually led me to http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=J6mJtxW8x8A&feature=related : one random winner
      • Except for the facial animations, it doesn't look THAT bad :) Compared to HL1 it must have looked amazin... : Xencer
      • I remember that video too. Then came the awesome Halo videos before it was stolen away. : danws6
      • That's crazy early Unreal 2 stuff. The actualy engine was leaps and bounds better looking than that. : glio1337This person is cool!
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        Nuh uh.. As far as tech demo come nothing beats the original Quake3 demo @ Macworld 99 http://www.youtube... : pillzerThis person is cool!
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          still pretty. : jujubeads
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            For being 12 years old it still holds up really well. I think it has a lot to due with how good their art... : hobosapien
            • Id was the first 3D game developer (if not one of the first ones) to use textures larger than 256 x 256 p... : the archvileThis person is cool!
      • http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=26I-Pw-yPJ4 Unreal 1 Castle flyby :) : rasputinrebornThis person is cool!
      • Hell, i remember being utterly gobsmacked by the castle flythrough in the original Unreal http://www.yo... : deathofratsThis person is cool!
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      Next gen brown games. : SlamDunkThis person is cool!
      • Next gen is green games, calling it now. : one random winner
      • I don't get where this attitude comes from. The Unreal Engine 3 games I've played have been very colorfu... : ManiacalMoose
    • Nice. : shirif
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      I want some true volumetric fluid/gas simulations - needs some more navier-stokes based grid approximatio... : Mr.FusionThis person is cool!
      • As rad as it would be that still sounds a little far away.. AFAIK it's hugely cpu intensive.. Even next-g... : pillzerThis person is cool!
      • Nah, the geometry of the water is perfectly fine and gets way too much attention already. Only faces, tit... : Zero Hoki
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      I wonder at the point what Unity and CryEngine will be like? It seems like Epic has gone the route of add... : Fred GarvinThis person is cool!
      • CryEngine 4 will surely be out by 2014. : SlamDunkThis person is cool!
    • Eventually AI will be so dynamic, why play multiplayer? When you can devote an entire core to one or two... : Jobos