In Real Life

Let’s Take A Tour Of America’s Most Epic Video Game Company

My trip to North Carolina to attend the East Coast Games Conference in Raleigh last week was a ruse, a feint. My real target was a (mostly) unassuming office structure in the Raleigh suburb of Cary, the birthplace of some of the greatest games of the past decade.


March 13, 2012
In Real Life

Mark Rein: Parents Are “Probably Ready To Buy Their Kids” A Wii U

Kotaku AU

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.


February 13, 2012
News

Unreal’s Next Engine Will Need A Console At Least 10x More Powerful Than Xbox 360

The human eye can only perceive 72 frames per second. We’ve been seeing games at 60 frames per second for some time. And as graphics approach photorealism with current computing power, some suggest that the days of giant leaps in visual quality are past us, and we’ll be seeing smaller refinements going forward.


July 11, 2011
In Real Life

Mark Rein: PCs Can “Simulate The Future”

Kotaku AU

We had Cervat Yerli from Crytek claiming that consoles were holding PC gaming back, now Epic’s Mark Rein, speaking to Eurogamer, has claimed that PCs have “shot by” consoles.


June 16, 2011
Nintendo

Report: Developers Working With ‘Underclocked’ Wii U Hardware

There’s a good reason that Nintendo showed off video game footage culled from the PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 versions of third-party games, not the Wii U, at last week’s E3 unveiling of the console. According to a new report, Wii U games just weren’t looking so hot on current hardware.


November 16, 2010

Report: Gears Of War Getting Kinect Control

Epic Games’ beefed up Xbox 360 shooter series may be adding a little motion control to its Locust-chainsawing action, according to one report that says Gears of War is getting Kinect enabled.


October 4, 2010
News

Gears Of War Devs Say Future PlayStation, Xbox Will Be Portable

Epic Games, video game engine tycoons and the developers behind Gears of War, have a vision for the future. And that vision includes Xboxes and PlayStations that you can unplug from your TV and carry around with you.


July 20, 2010
News

Mark Rein Is Sorry For Being A "Jerk"

So Epic’s Mark Rein interrupted a discussion last week at a conference, and got people upset. It made for good theatre at the time, but now the dust has settled, Rein has issued an honest apology.


July 16, 2010
News

Indie Dev Says Epic Can "F**k Off"

If the Develop Conference in Britain earlier this week was good for one thing, it was a healthy dose of games industry shit-talking. Like this rant from Positech’s Cliff Harris, in which he says “Mark Rein is a jerk”.


June 30, 2010
News

Gears Of War Maker Calls iPhone, iPad, Android ‘The Consoles Of The Future’

Epic Games, the people who make Unreal Tournament and Gears of War, could eventually bring Gears of War to your iPhone or Android, the future destination of big budget, “AAA” games.