Infinity Blade cinematic recaps the great weapon's origins
Infinity Blade: Origins is a video recap of the Infinity Blade narrative to this point, released just ahead of Wednesday's Infinity Blade III release.
READ MORE >Infinity Blade 3 dragon has four times the polygons of any character from Epic
"That dragon had four times the polycount of any console character we've ever done in Gears of War or Shadow Complex or anything like that," Mustard said. "It had four times the texture detail, the normal map detail, all on that dragon."
READ MORE >Infinity Blade 3 announced
Apple is showing off new iPhones to the world, which means Epic Games needs to announce a new Infinity Blade game. Infinity Blade 3 promises to...
READ MORE >"The graphics are insane for mobile. I wonder what tricks they're using, and how much RAM it needs."
see all 6 commentsInfinity Blade: Dungeons officially canceled
When developer Impossible Studios was closed in February, Epic Games said that it was putting Infinity Blade Dungeons on hold. Now, it has been revealed that the next installment of the popular iOS franchise was actually canceled.
READ MORE >"I also wish there was a PC port but I'm not holding out hope. "
see all 9 commentsEpic Games co-founders to join Develop Hall of Fame
Epic Games' Tim Sweeney and Mark Rein will be the first international developers to join Develop magazine's game development Hall of Fame. The pair will receive the Development Legend Award when they are inducted on July 10 in Brighton, England.
READ MORE >Gears of War: Judgment 'Lost Relics' pack announced
Gears of War: Judgment is getting another DLC pack. The "Lost Relics" pack is launching in June, and will include a new gametype, four new maps, and assorted weapon and armor skins.
READ MORE >Unreal Engine 3 HTML 5 tech demo released
"The Unreal Engine running in a browser without any plugins, purely on HTML 5, WebGL and JavaScript? Pull the other one, lass, it's got bells on," says someone or other. "I bet you believe everything The Man tells you." No, curious character! It's real and everything! Why, y...
READ MORE >"It has great performance at 5760x1080 on FF nightly, but it calculates FOV badly so it's really ..."
see all 48 commentsSection 8 developer files for bankruptcy protection
Section 8 developer and Aliens: Colonial Marines co-developer has filed for Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection, citing various debts to companies like Epic Games and SouthPeak Interactive.
READ MORE >"I will always know them as the makers of Kohan. Wish they'd bring the series back. :("
see all 6 commentsGears of War movie gets Battleship, Ted producer
The Gears of War movie adaptation has been taken up by producer Scott Stuber (Battleship, Ted). Stuber will reportedly be developing a script with Epic Games, and shopping the movie to studios.
READ MORE >"GoW material would be just as well served by being a SyFy Orignal production. No need to spend ..."
see all 3 commentsGears of War: Judgment 'Call to Arms' map pack announced
The next Gears of War: Judgment map pack is titled "Call to Arms." It will be coming April 23 for Season Pass holders, or April 30 for everyone else.
READ MORE >Analyst: Gears and God of War prequels 'significantly underperform'
Two console-exclusive "of War" prequels released last month, as both Microsoft and Sony attempt to milk their biggest franchises one more time before the next generation begins. And sales are likely to fall short of both franchises' last numbered entries.
READ MORE >"Gears of War didn't have a CE. That did it for me. I've bought every GoW CE so far - I'll ..."
see all 15 commentsPS4 'isn't quite as powerful as Epic was hoping for,' Digital Foundry reports
By comparing the first Unreal Engine 4 tech demo, running on a PC equipped with an Nvidia GTX 680, with the latest presentation running on a PlayStation. By analyzing the two, minute differences where the PS4 comes short can be found.
READ MORE >"Only really noticed Tessellation, Depth of Field, and some lighting issues the rest were about ..."
see all 70 commentsEpic Games VP explains why PS4 is like 'the world's best PC'
One of the biggest changes for the upcoming console generation is the switch to x86 architecture. What does Epic Games--developer of the near-ubiquitous Unreal Engine--have to say about it? Well, they're gushing as well.
READ MORE >"It also had things like tesselation and some other features that didn't hit until the next gen."
see all 33 commentsUnreal Engine 4 to support HTML 5, will be 'end of drivers'
At the Game Developers Conference, Epic Games detailed the scalability and ease-of-use tools in its upcoming Unreal Engine 4.
READ MORE >"It depends on the browser and platform. It's up for a browser to use hardware acceleration. For ..."
see all 81 commentsUnreal Engine 4 shown off in Infiltrator trailer
Epic Games showed off all the bells and whistles of its Unreal Engine 4 at GDC this week, giving developers an up close look at the ease of use of the tools and just how realistic the technology can make game look.
READ MORE >"What the heck is a game play camera, and how do you get "in" it?"
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"I wish the IB games were actually fun instead of basically being tech demos."
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