Epic Games Reveals Plans for E3 2009

CARY, N.C. (May 15, 2009) – Epic Games, Inc., invites interested parties to visit its meeting suite (South Hall #302, Los Angeles Convention Center) next month at the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3) where the newest Unreal Engine 3 features for PC, Xbox 360® and PLAYSTATION®3 will be demonstrated in closed door presentations for its prospective customers, evaluators, licensees, and members of its Integrated Partners Program. Epic Games staff will also be on hand to answer questions for licensees and those who are thinking about licensing the engine.

[MURKERR]

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[Ghoul]

"Epic Games staff will also be on hand to answer questions for licensees and those who are thinking about licensing the engine. "

thats more like what epic is all about these days, selling out the engine to as many as possible instead on working on more games. ;)

honestly i think epic should finally split up in 2 departments,
Epic Tech - engine development and research
Epic Games - making games

[ShabzS]

unreal engine has given us a lot of great games like bioshock, mass effect, gears, mirrors edge, splinter cell, rainbo six, deus ex, brothers in arms, graw... hell even XIII.. (yup that comic book cell shaded master piece)... but i think its about time epic chuck this engine and start from scratch ... with id tech 5 and cry engine 3 right around the corner .. they'd be forced to rethink a few things... i'm sure they're just waiting like us to see how those engines perform in a full game with ai...

[I did not murder him]

You sure ran in here pretty fast for being asleep.

[ZuperAmazingCooKie]

Just to demo the new improvements to the engine. Not saying they will release it for PS3 (at least not in a long time), just saying that would be a good way to showcase it on PS3. After all, they already have the assets and the engine already runs on PS3, so the game almost exists.

[All-3]

LOL --> Epic does have more than ONE development department.

[The-Director]

More shiny games to come.

[cmrbe]

I really hate how unoriginal most Multi-plat games have looked this gen mostly because of prevelent use of UE3.

I don't blame EPIC though. I have a lot of respect for them. Its just bussiness.

What i would have liked to see is more 3rd party multi-plat engines out this gen. its good that we now have Cryengine as well. Hopefully rage will bring something new to the table.

[mastiffchild]

You can't blame the devs either, not in this climate anyway. Making your own engine is costly, and as you well know, also time consuming in the extreme. How many devs have the money, staff and backbone to do all that? and I guess that UE must be attractive for the ease of use and backup Epic and also other devs can give through experience of it.

It has meant games feeling a bit cookie cutter but it's entiely understandable on both the sellers and buyers sides, imo.

I'd raher see Epic make a few games though but they have to look after business first.

[I did not murder him]

Versus cartoony art styles and or hand painted textures that look like chalk scribble?

[SpoonyRedMage]

I don't think the UE3 looks bad and can be used for different styles but it doesn't run very well. The Last Remnant and Lost Odyssey look fantastic and not the typical shiny and wet style but suffer in the performance department(Same with Mass Effect and probably a few others).

I think Capcom's MT Framwork engine is one the best though, very diverse. Although I think Chris(RE5) and Frank(Dead Rising) look quite similar.

[KingKionic]

Well this engine has helped alot of devs make great games. Hopefully at e3 they will should something that will be exciting.

[ULTIMATE_REVENGE]

in that case the 360 has loads of cartoony games, but anyways why are you so offended about people bashing the UE3, it was made for the PC, PS3 and 360, so don't act like as though it was only made for the 360.

I've noticed that quite a lot lately, anyone who bashes the UE3 the 360 fans are the first one's to jump and scream at you like little girls

[cmrbe]

It the only engine they can defend even though its a multi-plat one lol!.

Now you are going to see them defend the cryengine 3 with a passion.

This is what happens when MS don't create their own exclsuive engines that push their console limits. You get people like I did not murder him defending it like its exclusive on the x360 lol!.

[PirateThom]

I don't get why anyone would defend prevalent use of Unreal Engine. Maybe they hate variety?

Nothing wrong with designing engines from scratch to take advantage of hardware or even using other middleware engines.

[SpoonyRedMage]

I personally like Tri-Aces Infinite Undiscovery engine, not the most advanced or technical engine but the two game using it(IU and SO4) both look nice. I think I prefer the vivid colours of it. It's technically multiplatform but it's only been used on the 360 so far.

I actually wouldn't mind seeing it used by other developers.

Bit off-topic but oh well.

EDIT: Why the disagree, no love for the IU engine?:(

[DNAgent]

Gears of War 3 for PS3 confirmed.

[II Necroplasm II]

Ofcourse.

Being the PC architecture of the PS3 and it will sell like hotcakes on the PS3 as well.

[-MD-]

Unreal tournament 3 was on PS3 which used that engine.

Don't get your hopes up.

[II Necroplasm II]

He's just a dumb troll

[PotNoodle]

There have been probably over 50 games on the PS3, which use the Unreal engine. Infact, there is an exclusive PS3 game that uses the unreal engine..

Supersonic acrobatic rocket powered battle-cars :p

[Phantom_T]

Seems to me I'm the only one who got the joke.
+bubble.

[goflyakite]

"He's just a dumb troll"

That means very little coming from you.

[II Necroplasm II]

I live like 2 hours away from Epic studios lol

Here in NC.

[GamerPS360]

I live 15 mins away :D. Actually to be exact 13 mins. And, they are hiring for xbox and pc department.

[rbluetank]

will the new "updates" have these problems still?

1 do games using your "updated" engine have tear in to focus problems?

2 do the "updated" engine still have the same bland color pallets (red,gray yellow ect...) from previous games?

3 will the main characters be really bunky or move very slow and sluggish....?

4 will the games using your "updated" engine choppy frame work or glitchy features like gears1 or gears2?

5 will games using your "updated" engine be big,better,badass like that short and sloppy gears2 game?

if you answer yes to any of the above then no thxs... i will be Cryengine or killzones engine because they are much better then wash rinse and dry engine you guy's have(ut3)

[NMC2007]

Lost Odyssey,one of my favorite games this gen, Unreal Engine 3, no plastic models, no bland colors, game released Feb 2007.

Also, you mention bland colors in the negative but mention Killzone 2 in the positive, what's that about? Killzone 2 is the only game that uses that engine and Killzone might be the only series to use it, so disqualified sir, until they use it for something else.

[bnaked]

All the games would look better with another engine.. UE3 is sh!t!

[cmacdonald]

UE3 should be shot, not advertised.

[Phantom_T]

Compare Gears of Wars character models to Unreal tournament 3's.
See what I mean?

[LoLerskates]

why not compare it to other devs and compare it to bioshock, rainbow six vegas, mass effect, mirrors edge, and lost odyssey?

even though id rather see cryengine 3 games over the outdated UE3, ur comment was still biased

[OGharryjoysticks]

if anything cums out they will swallow it and say only the Unreal Engine can do that

[NateDPG]

Gears of Bore 3, anything else?

[-MD-]

You sound jealous.

[TheMART]

Their pre announcements of these effects used in Gears of War 3 on the 360.

Because this engine is for PC/PS3 also doesn't say anything about Gears of War, as they use the engine for other games like Unreal Tournament III.

And the PS3 doesn't sell games, they've seen that with UT3, they'll go for Gears of War 3 on the 360 and sell 5 to 8 mln. again.

[Mr Face Creamer]

It runs extremely well on PCs and definitely can run on puny consoles, many games have been presented with bad graphics using the UE3 engine (The Bourne Conspiracy), but its actually a wonderful and easy-to-develop engine.

The fact that Epic Games and many other studios have mastered this engine with titles such as Unreal Tournament 3, Gears of War 2 and Bioshock.

[CypH]

when will that happen. I want to see a ps3 exclusive from epic