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Unreal Engine 4, Frostbite 3 Will Not Support Wii U

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When someone asks if Unreal Engine 4 will work on Wii U, Epic co-founder Mark Rein bursts out laughing. “No,” he says.

Following an Unreal Engine presentation at 2013’s Game Developer Conference, Rein clarifies his response to IGN, still laughing, “I just laugh at the question…Unreal Engine 4, we’re not PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, or Wii U. It’s next-gen technology. That’s what we’re aiming for.”

So while UE4 proper won’t make its way onto Wii U, Rein explains that developers are capable of porting software powered by the engine. “The truth is, if a developer wanted to take an Unreal Engine game and put it on Wii U, they could,” Rein continues. “Unreal Engine 3 is kicking ass on Wii U. The best games on Wii U are made on our technology. What more do you want from us?”

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games

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Epic Shows Off Next-Gen Graphics With A New Unreal 4 Demo

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By Dave Thier

Epic Games has been showing off a new tech demo for its next-gen Unreal Engine 4 at the Game Developer?s Conference in San Francisco, and today it lifted embargo and released the demo. When Epic first unveiled UE4 last year, it seemed like a distant glimpse into a fancy, uncertain future. Now that the PS4 is on the horizon and Microsoft ?Durango? can?t be far behind, it?s a look at what we might actually be seeing in the fall. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at Forbes Technology

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Daylight Will Be Playable at PAX East

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Zombie Studios has announced that Daylight, its upcoming Unreal Engine 4 horror game, will be playable at PAX East. The game will be on display on the floor at the Astro Gaming booth (#668) and will be the first time a title built on Epic’s new engine will be available to the public.

“We couldn’t be more thrilled to be working with Astro with the first public demo of Daylight at PAX East,” said Zombie creative director Jared Gerritzen. “This will be the first time anyone not on the development team will get their hands on the game, so fans will be getting something really special.”

Look out for impressions of the demo on IGN straight from the show. For more on Daylight, read our interview with Gerritzen from DICE.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games

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Spec Ops: The Line Dev Working on Next-Gen Game

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Yager, the European studio behind 2012’s cult favorite Spec Ops: The Line, is officially working on a new game. Epic Games has revealed that the company has licensed its new, next-generation engine – Unreal Engine 4 – to Yager for use in an “unannounced next-generation AAA game.”

Unfortunately, little else is known about Yager’s project apart from the engine it will be running on. While Spec Ops: The Line was a great game, it’s unlikely it sold well enough to warrant a sequel. However, when we hear more about what the 100+ man team at Yager is working on with more specificity, we’ll be sure to keep you updated.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games

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News: Unreal Engine 4 Tech Demo for Project Awakened

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Phosphor Games Studio is building an action game using Unreal Engine 4 with a heavy focus on character customization called Project Awakened. To highlight some of the different ways you’ll be able to tweak your character design with abilities and armor pieces, the developer has released a tech demo that features Unreal Engine 4 footage. …read more
Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Tech

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Developers React to PlayStation 4

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IGN and its wonderful readers have been reacting to the PlayStation 4 since its reveal on February 20 — even Xbox fans were floored. But what about the people who actually make games? After all, this is supposedly a platform “for developers by developers.”

We reached out to some of the industry’s brightest creative minds for feedback — what excites designers, directors, and leaders about the platform, what might be missing, and what’s Sony doing right?

This is what came back.

The PlayStation 4 is a leading-edge hardware platform, and its enormous CPU, GPU and memory resources enables Unreal Engine 4 to reach levels of visual quality and detail that go far beyond the current generation, for games of all sizes and genres.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games

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Zombie Studios on Daylight, Reviving Horror Games

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It’s rare to see true horror in games anymore. Industry staples like Silent Hill and Resident Evil have long since moved past their horror roots, and even more recent entries like Dead Space have begun to incorporate more action. With the announcement of its first Unreal Engine 4 game, Daylight, Zombie Studios is looking to reverse that trend.

At the DICE summit in Vegas last week, IGN had a chance to sit down with Zombie creative studio head Jared Gerritzen and Daylight writer Jessica Chobot to talk about creating true horror experiences in an industry distancing itself from the genre, plus how Unreal Engine 4 changes the development landscape.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games

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NCSoft Licenses Unreal Engine 4

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Guild Wars 2 publisher NCSoft has licensed Unreal Engine 4 from Epic. The publisher signed a “long-term deal” to use the technology for multiple upcoming projects and is the first Korean studio to license the engine.

“Unreal Engine 4 is an extremely fascinating game engine in terms of its unprecedented efficiency and performance,” said NCsoft chief product officer James Bae. “We plan to release our best game ever using our Unreal Engine expertise and the new state-of-the-art Unreal Engine 4 tools.”

Details on specific projects haven’t been announced. NCSoft marks the third third-party developer to license the engine, following Square Enix signing a deal in October and Zombie Studios announcing Daylight last week.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games

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Blacklight Dev Reveals Unreal Engine 4 Horror Game

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Zombie Studios has announced Daylight, a new horror game built on Unreal Engine 4. The announcement came from the DICE summit in Vegas tonight, as Zombie finally provided details on the project it first teased in December.

Daylight is a horror game featuring a procedurally-generated environment. With only the light of a cell phone to guide them, players will navigate the halls of a dark building as a woman who’s just woken up. Every experience will be different as rooms are randomly generated, and players will only learn about the game’s story via clues they discover as they explore.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games

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The Vanishing of Ethan Carter: A New Horror Adventure

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The Astronauts, an independent studio comprised of ex-People Can Fly developers (Painkiller, Bulletstorm) has revealed The Vanishing of Ethan Carter, an upcoming horror adventure game. Built using Unreal Engine 3 the game is currently scheduled to launch sometime in 2013 only for PC.

You’ll play as a gifted detective who can apparently magically analyze crime scenes as you search for a missing boy in a mountainous area presided over by a mysterious force.

Game designer Adrian Chmielarz had this to say: “It’s a game about exploration and discovery. We’re not abandoning the gameplay – on the contrary: we’re trying to strip it down to the bone and make sure it’s always meaningful and truly makes the experience better.”

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games

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Too Human Disappears from Xbox Live

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Early today, a Twitter user reported that everything associated with Too Human, Silicon Knights’ troubled Xbox 360 exclusive, had been pulled from the Xbox Marketplace. While just a product page remains, there was originally a demo, gamer pics, dashboard themes, and the full game available through Games on Demand.

No statement has been made about the disappearance yet, but all signs are pointing toward the court ruling back in November of 2012 that ordered Silicon Knights to cease production of any games made using Unreal Engine 3.

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Source: FULL ARTICLE at IGN Video Games