While You Were Sleeping

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While You Were Sleeping was a well-received romantic comedy starring the luminous Sandra Bullock and the irrepressible Bill Pullman.

It’s also the name of a regular section here at Kotaku, where we round up all the best news coming in overnight, to save you trawling down the page for an excuse to not start work. Don’t say we’re not good to you!


Hopefully, Gears Of War 3 Has Some Of This In It

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Whenever I see a new look at the Unreal Engine, I wonder: How will they use this in the next Gears of War? I did that in March. I’m doing it again with this brand-new look at the updated Engine.


July 20, 2010
News

The Best Terminator Game May Be Fan Made

We can’t say for sure whether FPS Terminator, a fan-made mod built on the Unreal Engine, will be the best, but it’s safe to assume that it’s better than the most recent entry, Terminator Salvation.


June 18, 2010
In Real Life

Unreal Engine Puts BP Oil Spill Into Perspective

Initial estimates had the amount of oil spilling into the Gulf of Mexico at 25,000 barrels a day.This clip, made using the same engine that powers many of today’s biggest video games, shows how much oil that really is.


March 14, 2010

Do You Want Gears Of War 3 To Look Like This?

Epic Games makes Gears of War and, if Kotaku had to guess, maybe someday a sequel. At Game Developers Conference, Epic showed their latest Unreal game engine upgrades, including fancy foliage tech, pictured here. Want it in a Gears?


February 26, 2010
News

Unreal Modders Win Awards, Don’t All Clone Gears Of War

What can a bunch of amateurs turn Unreal Tournament 3 into? The just-completed Make Something Unreal contest offered money in order to find some answers. One is the shot above, but that wasn’t the winner.


December 23, 2009
News

Unreal Engine 3 Running On A Third-Gen iPod Touch

A writer from AnandTech got a look at Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3 working on the newest iPod Touch. It’s an impressive feat even if there are some asterisks.


November 14, 2009
News

More Than 50,000 Snap Up The Free Unreal SDK

Epic Games announced more than 50,000 downloads of its Unreal Development Kit in the first week the publisher started offering it for free.


November 6, 2009
News

Epic Sets The Unreal Engine Free

Everyone else is using the Unreal Engine 3 for game development, so why shouldn’t you? Epic Games has just released the Unreal Development Kit, a free edition of the Unreal Engine 3 for everybody.


June 30, 2009
News

Epic Games In South Korea

Epic Games, the folks behind the Gears of War franchise and the Unreal Engine development platform, are opening a branch office in South Korea.