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The next generation of hardware will have to seriously up its game if it expects to keep up with Epic’s hugely popular Unreal Engine.

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Epic’s Tim Sweeney feels movie quality graphics and pixels are “two major milestones,” heading to game development in the “very long-term future.”

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Epic has confirmed its amazing Samaritan Unreal tech demo isn’t just a pretty, pre-rendered cut scene - you can interact with it just like a game.

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Crytek has boasted that no other current game engine has the grunt to power a game like Crysis 2, and that CryEngine 3 could be used to build “pretty much any other game” from the studio’s competitors.

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Epic president Mike Capps has said that he’s a bit curious as to why Crytek’s CryEngine 3 is being considered a crossplatform engine when the company has yet to release a game on consoles.

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Epic head Mike Capps has given a rough date for the release of Unreal Engine 4 to Gamasutra: you’re going to be waiting a while, from the sound of it.

“We’ve got Unreal [Engine] 4 in production right now… it’s going to be in the next console generation – our rough guess is 2012-2018.”

The developer’s biz dev honcho, Mark Rein, pretty much said all this of the next version of the company’s franchise tech back in April, but new words are always welcome.

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Epic chief Mark Rein has told Eurogamer that the fourth Unreal Engine won’t be happening anytime soon, and is planned to accompany the next hardware cycle.

“It’s just a research project today,” he said. “Our plan is that it will be aimed at the next generation so it is many years away.”

Rein’s been chatty in the last day or so, talking to us exclusively about Gears of War 2 and the EA Unreal Engine licensing deal that was announced yesterday.