Epic’s announcement in early April that it was working on a PC-exclusive title got people talking, even though it wasn’t clear what they were talking about. Epic’s CliffyB has at least struck one potential PC title off the list.
Well, here’s something that hasn’t happened for a very long time: Epic Games, creators of the Unreal Tournament and Gears of Wars series, is working on a PC exclusive.
Around a year ago, we brought you a look at a new Gears of War title being developed at Epic Games and designed to take advantage of Microsoft’s Kinect technology. It looked pretty silly, something Microsoft and/or Epic obviously agreed with, because the game — called Gears of War: Exile — sounds like it’s ended up in the bin.
There has been a certain vibe of doom and gloom around the Nintendo brand (despite the fact the 3DS has been mostly breaking sales records) but Mark Rein, VP at Epic, believes the Wii U will be successful.
Epic rolled out the latest Unreal Engine 3 features reel at the Game Developers Conference today, reminding us once more why it’s so damn popular with game makers.
Epic Games likes to show off at the Game Developers Conference. They just did. They wanted to show how their Unreal Engine running in Flash. In a web browser. So they showed us Epic Citadel the tech demo used to show off Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 on the iPhone and iPad. It looked great. And it was in a browser.
Epic Games will be demoing the Unreal Engine 4 at the Game Developers’ Conference next week. At DICE, Epic’s Tim Sweeney said that the engine would require a console much more powerful than the Xbox 360.
RAAM’s Shadow is the second piece of downloadable content for Epic’s terrific action game Gears of War 3. It drops on December 13, and is much more substantive than the last DLC, mainly in that it’s a prequel-style three-chapter adventure starring Michael Barrick (of the Gears comics) and Zeta team in place of series protagonist Marcus Fenix and his Delta squadmates.
