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It’s the most lucrative genre in the western video games market and EA now believes it is the best positioned publisher in the industry with regards to the FPS genre – and that’s the reason why it wasn’t in the race to sign a deal with Halo developer Bungie. Upcoming …
Read More »Gears of War 3 for PS3?
Epic’s Gears of War 3 could be heading to PS3 unless Microsoft is willing to increase the amount it pays for the series’ platform exclusivity – that’s according to leading industry psychic/analyst Michael Pachter. Speaking of Gears of War’s current platform exclusivity in the latest edition of Gametrailers’ Pach-Attack, he …
Read More »Epic Diaries: Steamworks and Autodesk
Epic Games VP Mark Rein discusses big services from an Epic company
Read More »MS talks Gears of War 4
Anyone who’s been following the games industry for any amount of time should know all too well by now that a final chapter” is normally anything but. Step forward Gears of War 3. The epic story concludes” – that was the tag line that accompanied the leaked confirmation of the …
Read More »EA confirms Bulletstorm
It may not have had the most controlled unveiling – given that news of the game actually leaked out two days ago – but EA has today officially confirmed new Epic Games shooter Bulletstorm. Bulletstorm is developed by People Can Fly, the Polish studio owned by the Gears of War …
Read More »Epics new game is Bulletstorm
The first details of Epic’s new game that ISN’T Gears of War 3 have finally emerged – it’s called Bulletstorm, it will be published by EA and it’s co-developed by Painkiller studio People Can Fly. Revealed on the cover of the next edition of US mag Game Informer, it’s set …
Read More »Cliffy Bs reveal is NOT Gears of War 3
An ad for the next issue of Official Xbox Magazine has confirmed that Epic is to reveal a brand new shooter in its next issue – crushing hopes that developer Cliffy Bleszinski’s anticipated announcement on the US’ Jimmy Fallon Show will be Gears of War 3. The back of page …
Read More »Epic Diaries: Mass Effect 2
A close look at UE3's role in BioWare's sci-fi epic
Read More »Epic set for Tokyo meetings
Unreal Engine 3 vendor to break ice with interested Japanese studios
Read More »Bleszinski heaps praise on Natal
Cult developer and design director at developer Epic Games Cliff Bleszinski has expressed his interest in the motion control movement that’s currently enveloping the console sector, singling out Natal as the technology that interests him most. I find motion controls to be very interesting, very compelling,” he told IGN. The …
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