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Far Cry 3 And The Stranger In A Strange Land Mike Capps, el presidente of Epic Games, recently spoke at the Casual Connect conference in Seattle, saying that his company had lost some of its “nimbleness” as a blockbuster producing studio. With massive titles like Gears of War and Unreal Tournament on its plate, its looking to explore new franchises on the cheap, specifically through comic books.
Develop reports that Capps also expressed plans to utilise the recently purchased Chair Entertainment to increase its stable of intellectual property. “We want to learn from casual games”, he’s quoted as saying, telling casual game developers on hand “we’re really jealous of the things you do and we’re going to steal all your ideas.”
He then chainsawed them all in half and took their brains back to Epic Games science labs for further study.
Epic Games looks to comic books for building new IP [Develop]
Epic president Mike Capps guesses the next console generation will begin anywhere between 2012 and 2018 — and when it does, Unreal Engine 4 will be already waiting for it. At least, that’s what Capps told an audience Microsoft’s Gamefest 2008 in Seattle this week, according to a Gamasutra report.
Said Capps:
Gun plus chainsaw? There must be more to that than simply “looks cool.” There is! Epics president Mike Capps says while he was originally against the idea, he told a Comic Con panel: The reason [it]exists is because our characters are so bloody expensive to draw..
Meaning that they have more detail close-up than say Halo characters. Fair enough! Though we prefer “looks cool.” Elsewhere Capps says the sequel have battles that feel more massive in scale. Hope he doesn’t have another dry explanation for that. Gears of War 2 Details [GameSpy via videogaming247]
Mike Capps, President of Epic Games, revealed two horrible judgments that he almost made regarding Gears of War. The first regarded multiplayer: I was going to cut multiplayer from Gears because I thought it wasn’t coming together fast enough…The day before E3 I’m like “no guys, it’s not pulling together”. And they made it, they pulled it together, and then we won every award.
But maybe Gears multiplayer is only good because he almost cut it. Oohh, deep, we know. But Capps had another opinion that was just plain wrong.
