Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney says that games will look “absolutely photo-realistic within the next 10 years,” but he warns that truly realistic graphics will only serve to highlight gaming’s other flaws, such as dumb AI and facial capture animation that still crosses the line into the …
Attention UK gamers! Gadget Show Live has just announced a few of the companies that will have products on display for the upcoming event, and you can get your tickets for the show right here. If you haven’t heard about Gadget Show Live, here’s the deal: …
Cliff “CliffyB” Bleszinski is leaving Epic Games. Bleszinski has been Epic’s most publicly recognized figure and a key member of its design department for over twenty years, having worked on everything from the original Jazz Jackrabbit to Unreal and, of course, Gears of War.
Times are hard for Canadian developer Silicon Knights. The Ontario based company laid off 45 employees last December, and following their loss in a protracted legal battle against Epic Games (creators of Gears of War and the Unreal Engine,) the company announced today that they were …
As a gamer, it’s been a long time since I’ve been excited about how a game looks. As a kid it was fairly common to drool over how a game looked without knowing anything about the gameplay. Well thanks to Epic I feel like a kid …
According to gi.biz, Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, had some interesting things to say at the D.I.C.E summit in Las Vegas. Sweeney feels there are too many platforms in the market, predicting that, “Over time these platforms will be whittled down to a competing set …
Leading up to the release of Fenix Rises next week, enjoy another flythrough of the new map “Slab”. Slab is a prison based map that should fit the themes of Gears of War quite well. Who knows, maybe Slab has some relation to the prison that …
Along with the news of the “Fenix Rising” achievements, Epic has released a flythrough of one of the upcoming maps. Say what you will about Gears maps, but I happen to appreciate the symmetry and lines of sight in most of their maps. Even in the …
Gears of War 3’s “RAAMS Shadow” DLC launched today to kick of Gearsmas 2011. For the first crack at campaign DLC for Gears 3, it is fantastic. Epic places you in the boots of Zeta squad, a familiar yet fresh 4 man wrecking crew for the …
You read the title right, we have to wait a good amount of time for the next Unreal engine, But Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney assures everyone that the new engine will be worth the wait. The Unreal Engine 3 (current generation) has been around since …