Tag Archives: Epic Games
Wed, May 22, 2013 | 06:05 BST
GDC Europe announce more talks for design and business tracks
The organisers of GDC Europe have announced more talks for the event in August. As part of the design and business tracks, the new talks will take place from Monday 19 August through to Wednesday 21 August. These additions will be talks from Steven Masters on Assassin’s Creed III’s design, Don Daglow on the ‘treasures and traps’ of next-gen and Epic’s James Brown on empowering the player in storytelling.
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Fri, May 17, 2013 | 08:25 BST
Gears of War: Judgment ‘Lost Relics’ DLC outed, new maps & modes inbound
Gears of War: Judgment’s next DLC pack ‘Lost Relics’ has been outed by co-developer Epic Games, and will bring new a new multiplayer mode and maps to the mix.
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Posted in: Shooter, Xbox 360, Xbox Live
Tags: Epic Games, Gears of War: Judgment - 'Lost Relics', people can fly
Fri, May 10, 2013 | 16:47 BST
Gears of War: Judgment gets new, free DLC next week
Gears of War: Judgment’s next free-DLC pack, like Execution mode and the Haven and Capitol maps before it, will be sponsored by Maxim.
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Posted in: Microsoft, Shooter, Xbox 360, Xbox Live
Tags: Epic Games, gears of war, Gears of War: Judgment, GoWJ, Judgment, maxim, people can fly
Thu, May 09, 2013 | 16:19 BST
Sony and Microsoft to go ‘heavily’ on free-to-play next gen, says Epic’s Rein
Epic Games VP Mark Rein has said that both Sony and Microsoft are to chase the free-to-play and in-app purchase business models with their next generation of hardware.
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Posted in: Development, Microsoft, PS4
Tags: Epic Games, free-to-play, in-App Purchases, mark rein
Wed, May 08, 2013 | 19:22 BST
Consoles don’t need a five year turn-around unless there’s a “big enough leap,” – Epic VP
Epic Games vice president Mark Rein doesn’t believe console manufacturers have dropped the ball by not releasing a new console every five years.
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Posted in: Development, PS3, PS4, Xbox, Xbox 360, hardware
Tags: Epic Games, game horizon, mark rein
Thu, May 02, 2013 | 23:25 BST
Epic Citadel now available in-browser, without Flash
Proving that the Unreal Engine can go anywhere, Epic has released a version of its gorgeous interactive tech demo Epic Citadel which runs in HTML5.
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Posted in: Browser-Based
Tags: epic citadel, Epic Games, HTML 5
Tue, Apr 30, 2013 | 01:21 BST
Gears of War movie nets Battleship producer
Battleship, Ted and Safe House producer Scott Stuber has signed on to the Gears of War movie project.
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Posted in: Microsoft, Movies, Shooter
Tags: Epic Games, gears of war, gears of war movie, Scott Stuber
Mon, Apr 29, 2013 | 23:22 BST
Unreal Indie Bundle offers seven games for $20
Epic Games is pleased as punch to present a collection of seven highly-praised indie games built on its popular Unreal Engine 3 platform.
Mon, Apr 29, 2013 | 05:31 BST
Epic marketing boss exits for Microsoft
Yet another highly-placed staffer has left Epic Games.
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Posted in: Trade
Tags: epic, Epic Games
Fri, Apr 19, 2013 | 16:17 BST
Gears of War: Judgment – Call to Arms Map Pack with new multiplayer mode out next week
The second Gears of War: Judgment map pack, Call to Arms, will be released next week for VIP Season Pass holders, and comes with three new maps along with the Master at Arms multiplayer mode.
Mon, Apr 08, 2013 | 10:36 BST
Make Something Unreal Live prize goes to “potential eSport” Epigenesis
Epic Games’ annual make Something Unreal competition has drawn to a close, awarding the grand prize to Dead Shark Triplepunch for its unusual first-person ball game, Epigenesis.
Wed, Apr 03, 2013 | 10:37 BST
Fortnite ‘might be Epic’s best work’, Mark Rein suggests
Fortnite might just be developer Epic Games’ crowning glory, according to company vice president Mark Rein, but doesn’t want the company to rush it out the gate.
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Posted in: PC
Tags: Epic Games, Fortnite
Wed, Apr 03, 2013 | 06:12 BST
Gears of War: Judgment patched, new free DLC available
Gears of War: Judgment got a couple of updates today, with People Can Fly releasing both a title update and stack of new DLC – all for free.
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Posted in: Microsoft, Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: dlc, Epic Games, Gears of War: Judgment, patch, people can fly, title update
Wed, Apr 03, 2013 | 08:35 BST
PS4 like “the world’s best PC”, says Epic boss
Epic Games vice president Mark Rein seems fairly enamoured with the PlayStation 4, going as far as describing it as a “really perfect gaming PC”.
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Posted in: PS4, Sony
Tags: Epic Games, mark rein
Tue, Apr 02, 2013 | 18:33 BST
Unreal Engine 4: prepare yourselves for next-gen
Epic Games showed off its gorgeous Unreal Engine 4 during GDC. VG247′s technologically inept Stephany Nunneley witnessed and felt the hotness in the standing-room only mini-theater.
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Posted in: Development, GDC 2013, hardware
Tags: Epic Games, unreal engine 4, URE4
Tue, Apr 02, 2013 | 08:37 BST
Unreal Engine 4 demo stars an infiltrator
If one Unreal Engine GDC 2013 tech demo wasn’t enough, this is a great day for all six of you. Called Infiltrator, the trailer shows off some very impressive lighting and transparency effects, the likes of which you will not have seen since the last time Epic demonstrated its apparently magic tech.
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Posted in: Development, GDC 2013
Tags: Epic Games, unreal engine 4
Sat, Mar 30, 2013 | 01:29 GMT
A real-time Unreal Engine 4 tech demo running on PS4 hardware
Earlier today we talked about how the Unreal Engine 4 games won’t be on the Wii U, and now it’s time to look at what that engine can do on a PS4. The following video is a tech demo rendered in real time. Take a look.
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Posted in: GDC 2013, PS4, hardware
Tags: Epic Games, unreal engine 4
Fri, Mar 29, 2013 | 18:44 GMT
You will not be able to play Unreal Engine 4 games on Wii U
Nintendo thinks the Wii U began the eighth generation of video games hardware; random other people think it’s actually 7th-gen (also known as current-gen for the past seven years). We may be finding out know what the real answer is. First, Frostbite 3 games (including Battlefield 4, Dragon Age 3 and the next Mass Effect) won’t be on Wii U. Next, The Unreal Engine 4 games won’t, either.
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Posted in: GDC 2013, Wii U
Tags: Epic Games, unreal engine 4
Thu, Mar 28, 2013 | 12:23 GMT
Unreal Engine 3 heading to browsers as Epic and Mozilla team up
Firefox developer Mozilla and Epic Games have partnered up to bring Unreal Engine 3 to browsers.
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Posted in: Browser-Based, GDC 2013
Tags: Epic Games, Mozilla
Wed, Mar 27, 2013 | 12:57 GMT
Gears of War Judgment: Warzone mode found on-disc
Gears of War: Judgment players have found a way to access the game’s Warzone mode, suggesting that it’s either on-disc DLC or as Epic has since said, a hangover from the game’s development. You be the judge below.
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Posted in: Shooter, Xbox 360
Tags: Epic Games, Gears of War: Judgment
Microsoft’s Kinect patent suggest they will be always be watching