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News
More Than 50,000 Snap Up The Free Unreal SDK
1:00PM Owen Good | Epic Games announced more than 50,000 downloads of its Unreal Development Kit in the first week the publisher started offering it for free. More »
Rumours
Rumour: Epic Teases Something “Unreal”
10:20AM Michael McWhertor | The Epic Games official web site featured a cryptic teaser about…something, an Unreal-related teaser that has since been removed. That teaser featured the above graphic and the tagline “It’s Unreal. And it’s almost here.” More »
Culture
A Patch Of Gaming Pumpkins
11:40AM AJ Glasser | I asked and many of you answered. We almost have enough gaming-themed pumpkins to cover a post a day between now and Halloween. Here’s a gallery of ceemdee’s pumpkins. More »
Hearing Voices – The Top Faceless Game Announcers
3:40AM Mike Fahey | While I generally don’t pay too much attention to Maxim’s video game coverage, mainly because I don’t feel like I fit into their core demographic (Maxim readers), every once in a while the magazine that gave Sudeki for the Xbox 5 stars has something interesting to offer. Like a list of the 7 Greatest Faceless Announcers in Video Games, a celebration of those announcers we never see but will never forget. You may know them as “The Finish Him Guy”, or “the guy from Soul Calibur who sounds like he’s just making shit up as he goes along”, but you love them just the same. More »
News
Epic Preps Unreal Engine 4 For ‘Next Console Generation’
1:40AM Leigh Alexander | 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: More »
News
You Might Get Another Unreal Game. Maybe.
2:30PM Luke Plunkett | Unreal’s an engine that’s making Epic some serious money. Pity, then, that Unreal as a franchise is a shadow of its former self. UTIII’s done OK, don’t get me wrong, but few at Epic or Midway would say it’s performed as expected. So what does that mean for the proper Unreal games? You remember, those singleplayer ones with a story and stuff. What about them? Take it away, Mark Rein: I’m sure that at some point in our future we will make another Unreal, single-player, story-driven game. I’m sure at some point there will be one…[however] there are no plans to do one today. What about tomorrow? Oh yeah. Gears 2. OK, we’ll get back to you in 2011, thanks. Unreal Tournament 3 [Eurogamer] More »
