Tag Archives: Epic Games

Fortnite developer Epic Games showcased the game’s crafting and resource mechanics at GDC today, and someone in the crowd has filmed the whole thing.

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Unreal Engine 4 will be revealed in greater detail at GDC this week. Epic Games has released a short, tantalising teaser clip of its new demo reel.

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Oculus Rift development kits will come with free Unreal Development Kits as well, courtesy of Epic Games.

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Tencent’s most recent financial report gives details of the Chinese company’s June acquisition of a stake in Epic Games, and the appointment of two of its representatives to the Epic board of directors.

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Gears of War: Judgment offers players a wide range of vanity items, just like Gears of War 3, but the game also includes paid boosters which are new to the series.

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Gears of Wars: Judgments reviews have begun trickling in, and although we only have a few scores so far, initial results are favourable.

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Gears of War: Judgment is an odd prequel that brings interesting ideas to the table. VG247′s Dave Cook plays People Can Fly’s first stab at the franchise to see if it stacks up with the core trilogy.

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Epic Games has announced its licensed its Unreal Engine 4 to Spec Ops: The Line developer YAGER, which is the first independent studio in Europe to license the tech.

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“This is crazy”. No Baird, it’s not. It’s an annual sequel, the complete opposite of crazy. Oh, you’ve got a new squad of mates to show us? Okay, that is crazy.

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Gears of War: Judgment co-developer Epic Games unveiled a strange new multiplayer enemy type, the ‘Epic Reaper’. There’s a catch though, as this harbinger of death will be controlled by outstanding members of the Gears community

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Gears of War: Judgment co-developer Epic Games has argued that the Xbox 360 can still be pushed further, even though rumours of a next-gen Xbox are growing by the day. The developer and People Can Fly claim to have squeezed even more out of Microsoft’s rig for their upcoming shooter.

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Former Epic president Mike Capps, who retired to an advisory role late last year, has decided to step away from the the company altgoether.

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Gears of War: Judgment has received its launch trailer from Epic Games and People Can Fly. It’s got a cracking soundtrack and many shots of Baird and his trademark bad attitude.

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Gears of War: Judgment has received a new weapon trailer, this time showing off the Tripwire Crossbow. You can use it to set up laser tripwires that detonate when Locust troops pass through, slicing them to bits. You also get a ‘Ribbon’ reward for each time you do so. It’s rather nasty.

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Gears of War: Judgment developers Epic Games and People Can Fly decided to create the prequel around Baird after they found him to be a “fan favourite” among gamers. The fact that many gamers saw him as an “asshole” really helped their decision too.

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Gears of War: Exile was said to be the victim of a screenshot leak last month. Epic Games has been probed – not literally – about the Kinect game’s existence in a new interview, but the studio isn’t biting, besides calling the rumoured project ‘really cool’.

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Gears of War: Judgment has received a new batch of screens from Microsoft, showing Bair, Cole and chum fighting Locust across a decaying Sera.

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Gears of War: Judgment will feature a second unlockable campaign called ‘Aftermath’ that shows just what Baird and Cole where doing while Marcus was tussling with Queen Myrrah during Gears of War 3′s climax.

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Gears of War: Judgment is the subject of the latest Creator’s Project video from Kill Screen, and it features the game’s writers Rob Auten and Tom Bissell discussing how complicated it can be to write for videogames. The duo also talks about working with the game’s level designers and how they made the Cog army spring to life.” It’s below, alongside a video featuring a look at the Gears of War: Judgment Day event which took place in the UK. Gears of War: Judgment releases on March 19. Thanks, woe.

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Epic Games has announced its GDC 2013 plans, which include loads of panels, demonstrations, and the ability for indie developers to drop by and have a chat.

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