Tue, Oct 04, 2011 | 20:47 BST

Unreal Engine 3 brings 3D gaming to Flash

Epic’s Tim Sweeney announced during Adobe MAX 2011 today that Unreal Engine 3 now runs inside Flash Player 11. To demonstrate how it works, he demoed Unreal Tournament 3 running in Adobe’s latest update which was released yesterday. This means browser games using UR3 can provide the player with a “real” 3D experience. This will also make it easier to convert browser-based games into apps for mobile devices. The big thing, will be Facebook games: since these are browser-based games, using UR3, you may eventually find that your farm or zoo games will finally start looking more like a PC or console title. Check out shots of UT3 running in Flash below.

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#1

Maximum Payne
04/10/11, 8:50 pm

Can’t wait to see how my cow eats grass in real time!

#2

Stephany Nunneley
04/10/11, 8:50 pm

Me too! Wait, I can look out the window and see that :p

#3

Anders
04/10/11, 8:57 pm

The future of gaming. Right here.

#4

Stardog
04/10/11, 9:09 pm

@Anders Not really. Unity will be able to export to flash too when it’s released.

#5

jnms
04/10/11, 9:13 pm

I think Anders meant the future of gaming is gonna be browser based…

#6

Anders
04/10/11, 9:28 pm

I think I was being ironic.

#7

Erthazus
04/10/11, 9:34 pm

Farmville with UE 3.0

:D and with chainsaw

#8

Dannybuoy
05/10/11, 7:29 am

Isn’t that running in a Flash player window and not a browser?

#9

Stoopid_Snot
05/10/11, 10:45 am

did’t lots of bic companys said that they will not suport Flash anymore but jump 2 HTML5 instead?

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