Unreal Engine 3 heading to browsers as Epic and Mozilla team up

News by Dave Cook Contributor

Published on March 28, 2013

Firefox developer Mozilla and Epic Games have partnered up to bring Unreal Engine 3 to browsers.

Announced at GDC, the deal stems from a desire to see triple-a gaming experiences become reality on browsers.

Mozilla shed light on its plans in a new blog post, which read, "To make these advancements, Mozilla developed a highly-optimized version of JavaScript that supercharges a developer’s gaming code in the browser to enable visually compelling, fast, 3D gaming experiences on the Web.

"With this technology we are also opening up the path for 3D Web-based games on mobile as JavaScript performance continues to close the gap with native. Today, we are excited to unlock this technology for high-performance games, by teaming up with Epic Games.

"By leveraging this new JavaScript optimization technology, Mozilla has been able to bring Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 to the Web. With this port, developers will soon be able to explore limitless possibilities when it comes to porting their popular gaming titles to the Web."

Here's a video of Unreal Engine 3 running in a browser:

What do you think? Could this potentially massive for the browser gaming scene? Let us know below.

Thanks GI.biz.