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Today, Tim Sweeney announced a shocking new price for popular game development tool, Unreal Engine 4.
READ MORE >PS4 '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 >Epic 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 commentsHeavy Gear Assault shows off Unreal Engine 4 trailer
MekTek Studios and Stompy Bot Productions announced today that Heavy Gear Assault will use Unreal Engine 4, and released a new trailer to show it off.
READ MORE >"I loved and miss heavy gear. So fucking awesome. Amazing music too. "
see all 9 commentsPrimal Carnage: Genesis brings dinosaurs to PS4 and PC
Primal Carnage: Genesis is an episodic Unreal Engine 4-powered first-person shooter for PS4 and PC.
READ MORE >"man that fighter was awesome. it was near the end of the snes life so it wasnt as popular"
see all 7 commentsEpic launches Seattle studio to push Unreal Engine 4 development
Epic Games has announced the formation of an as-of-yet unnamed Seattle studio that will focus further developing Unreal Engine 4 technology, and they are hiring.
READ MORE >"You're thinking present day, but what about 5-10 years from now? Steam will be even bigger than ..."
see all 14 commentsThe 'philosophical' improvements of Unreal Engine 4
Epic's senior staff talks about the philosophical shift in creating Unreal Engine 4, and how it hopes that designers will get more direct control over the projects.
READ MORE >"I sighed at Sweeney's "connectedness" remark. The current generation's idea of "connectedness" ..."
see all 3 commentsFortnite is the first Unreal Engine 4 game, exclusive to PC
Epic Games' Fortnite will be the company's first game to take advantage of Unreal Engine 4. And, it's exclusive to PC.
READ MORE >"So now that they don't you must stick your ground so they'll go back to giving the cold shoulder?"
see all 82 commentsUnreal Engine 4 videos show off tech demos
As promised, at E3 Epic properly lifted the wraps off its next-generation engine, Unreal Engine 4. While the real-time cinematic teased before is jolly nice and all, the real highlight is a good long look at the tech and tools themselves.
READ MORE >"Nice to see them moving away from an inheritance based entity system to a component based one. ..."
see all 36 commentsUnreal Engine 4 to be much more advanced than Samaritan demo
"If Samaritan looked like a piece of ****, that's what Unreal Engine 4 would look like," Rein told us.
READ MORE >"Maybe he just means you can only make brown looking games with it."
see all 51 commentsUnreal 'Samaritan' demo requires ten times Xbox 360's processing power
Epic founder Tim Sweeney talks about the power requirements to handle the Unreal Engine 3 "Samaritan" demo, shedding new light on the increased requirements for UE4.
READ MORE >"indeed, plus if you look at modern ps3 games, a lot of 'gpu' stuff is being moved onto the cpu"
see all 41 commentsReport: Unreal Engine 4 to be revealed in 2012
Epic Games vice president Mark Rein suggests the company will begin showing off Unreal Engine 4 this year.
READ MORE >"I imgagine there should be a way to get good lagless mouse input and make it an option within ..."
see all 44 commentsUnreal Engine 4 release aiming for 'day one' on next-gen consoles
Epic Games president Mike Capps talks about the strategies behind developing Unreal Engine 4, and how the company wants to be ready for the next-gen consoles on "day one."
READ MORE >"The Unreal demo was more than just looks... there are techniques going on in that demo which are ..."
see all 62 commentsUnreal 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.
READ MORE >"Eventually AI will be so dynamic, why play multiplayer? When you can devote an entire core to ..."
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"Only really noticed Tessellation, Depth of Field, and some lighting issues the rest were about ..."
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