Epic to unveil Unreal Engine 4 at E3
Epic Games has confirmed that it will demo its next-generation Unreal Engine 4, the first images from which were revealed yesterday, to developers at next month's E3. More >
Epic Games has confirmed that it will demo its next-generation Unreal Engine 4, the first images from which were revealed yesterday, to developers at next month's E3. More >
Cliff Bleszinski vows to "drag this industry into the next generation".
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Creating audio for DICE, or handling the live services behind Battlefield.
Shaping the world of WOW, or handling the live services behind Battlefield.
Unity continues to grow apace: by the end of 2010 it had amassed 250,000 registered developers, and by the end of last year that had grown to 750,000. It means Unity's userbase has grown by a third in the last three months alone. More >
Peter Molyneux, Cliff Bleszinski and Ian Livingstone will help coach the teams taking part in Epic Games' iOS game jam at the Gadget Show Live next month. Make Something Unreal Live will see four teams spend 48 hours making iOS games in Epic's Unreal Engine, based on Ian Livingstone and Steve Jackson's Fighting Fantasy novels. More >
Adobe has announced an official partnership with Unity Technologies that will see the two firms cooperate to help developers target the Flash platform. Unity added a Flash export option to its popular engine over a year ago, and first showed it off at the Unite 11 conference in San Francisco in late September. Speaking to Gamasutra, Adobe's group product marketing manager for gaming solutions, Diana Helander, said the deal would help streamline Flash development in Unity. More >
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5Mark Rein, vice president of Unreal Engine creator Epic Games, says he will be "shocked" if Nintendo's new console, Wii U, doesn't do well. Speaking to Eurogamer at GDC last week, Rein said Wii U - which was unveiled at E3 last year and will be shown off at this year's conference ahead of a release later in 2012 - was much changed from what was unveiled last year. More >
1Epic Games has shown off the progress it has made running Unreal Engine in Flash, saying that its long-term goal is to run the Samaritan demo in Adobe's technology. Speaking during a GDC presentation, Epic Games VP Mark Rein showed off Dungeon Defenders running in full screen just as well as it does on PS3, according to Gamesindustry.biz. "This isn't your father's FarmVille," Rein quipped at the close. More >
Find your future working for Gameloft in Madrid, on Magic: The Gathering at Stainless or with DICE in Stockholm.
Skyrim developer Bethesda and Fable studio Lionhead are seeking to fill positions that suggest both studios are preparing for a new generation of hardware. Of the two, Bethesda's intent is the more obvious: it's hiring for a "future generation console programmer ... to work on cutting-edge technology for an unannounced game on future-generation consoles." More >
Unreal Engine 4 will be revealed at next week's Game Developers Conference in San Francisco, Epic Games has confirmed. The company will not, however, be showing off its new technology to all attendees; only select licensees, partners and prospective customers will be allowed to see the next-generation Unreal Engine, and those that do will be bound by NDA - which makes sense following Mark Rein's admittance earlier this month that UE4 was up and running on "systems I can't talk about by name." More >
4More than 5,000 developers have licensed the Hero Engine, the platform used in The Old Republic. Neil Harris, COO of Idea Fabrik, which owns the tech, told Develop there had been a rush of interest following the launch of BioWare's Star Wars MMOG in December. More >
Find your future working on DICE's Frostbite engine, a new Sony PS3 game or coding MMOGs for Massive.
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Unreal Engine 4 will be revealed later this year, Mark Rein has confirmed, with the Epic Games vice-president saying people will be "shocked" when they see what the company's next-gen tech has to offer. Speaking at last week's DICE Summit in Las Vegas as reported by Loud-Mouthed Gamers, Rein said that UE4 was already up and running on "systems I can't talk about by name." More >
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