It seems that every gaming studio is starting to voice their opinions when prompted. The times of biting one’s tongue as to not piss of the powers that be are no longer here. The latest salvo in shit talkin’ goes to Epic president, Michael Capps. When asked if Epic would make software for the Wii, well, just read:
Comparing the Wii to a virus, he explained the epidemic as a chain reaction of sort.When someone sees a Wii, they’ll think it looks cool, buy it, and then stop playing it after two months. But, a friend will see their Wii, think it looks fun, and buy one for themselves. The cycle continues, even though people stop playing their Wiis once the novelty wears off.
Wow. Giant teabag dropped right thurr. Sadly, I have to agree in part here. I acquired a Wii through eBay and probably overpaid. I put a ton of time into Zelda and played a bunch of Smash, but thats it. It looks good in my home entertainent system, yet its collecting dust. Aside from the killer aps, their is not that much to do on it. Online multiplayer is non-existant and besides some drunken bowling, I have not played it much at all. I do have hope for the Wii, but GTA and MGS4 are going to be monsters and for the next few months, many Wii’s will be collecting dust.
Want to see some locusts get jacked up in cool art styles? Your chance is coming as DC Comics will be brining Marcus, Dom, and all your favorite chainsaw wielding heroes to the comics. The series is set to come from DC’s WildStorm publishing imprint in October.
“Big guns and monsters — what a perfect comic book for WildStorm! We have an opportunity to work closely with Epic to add to the canon of the Gears of War mythos, so you can imagine how excited we all are, said Hank Kanalz, VP – General Manager, WildStorm. “Epic sets the bar very high, in graphics, story, and gameplay — and expect no less from our series, starting with our lead-in arc that fills in the gaps between the first game and the upcoming sequel.”
Could be good. Hopefully they come up with a good storyline and don’t just take what’s in the games.
I have seen some fairly elaborate sticks and rocket jumps and suicides, but this one takes the cake. This guy set up a sticky grenade death of epic proportions and then incorporated in a Mongoose to boot. Impressive to say the least. Check this video out.
Epic is pushing out a huge update for Unreal Tournament 3 on the PS3. The update will come March 27th for both the US and Europe. Most notably, the US and EU versions will be brought up to speed so you can play each other across the pond.
Other fixes include making it easier to import mods, bug fixes, keyboard support fixes, and a ton of other stuff. The list is huge, so check it out after the jump. And make sure to fire up your copy of UT3 on March 27th to get all the new goodies.
Following up with Atari joining the Steam camp, Epic will be putting a large portion of their games onto Steam.
The Epic hits now available on Steam include Epic’s debut classic, Unreal Gold, as well as Unreal II: The Awakening and the Unreal Tournament series of games, including the recently released Unreal Tournament 3, which has shipped over one million copies to date.
All of Epic’s titles available on Steam are offered in the Unreal Deal Pack, an incredible value for just $59.95. And, to celebrate the launch, all of Epic’s games on Steam are available for 10% off their regular price.
I think we’ll be seeing a ton of Epic games now and in the future on Steam, except Gears of War. Since Microsoft has the publishing rights, I have a feeling it’ll be sticking to Games for Windows Live. A shame, really, since Steam is much better.
Star Wars is a super epic movie that anyone with a pulse can easily recognise, so of course it made sense to have it grace video game consoles. Pretty much slapping a Star Wars logo on about anything will make it sell, just look at Soul Calibur putting in Darth Vader and Yoda, not necessary at all but people will buy the game just to use these characters.
Great to see how the Star Wars franchise developed from it’s original roots on the original consoles and developed into Lego inspired games, RPG’s like Knights of the Old Republic and classic fighter games like Rebel Assault. Star Wars is one of those franchises that provides so much story and so much content that the possibilities of games is almost endless.
I am thinking the only thing we are missing is Star Wars Sims, build Chewbaca a hut and make him a vital part of society.
Looks like Epic has decided which direction to go with their development. Tim Sweeney, the big daddy at Epic, dropped some knowledge on TG Daily.
The Unreal engine is really tied to a console cycle. We will continue to improve Unreal Engine 3 and add significant new features through the end of this console cycle. So, it is normal to expect that we will add new stuff in 2011 and 2012. We’re shipping Gears of War now; we’re just showing the next bunch of major tech upgrades such as soft-body physics, destructible environments and crowds. There is a long life ahead for Unreal Engine 3. Version 4 will exclusively target the next console generation, Microsoft’s successor for the Xbox 360, Sony’s successor for the Playstation 3 - and if Nintendo ships a machine with similar hardware specs, then that also. PCs will follow after that.
Looks like Sweeney doesn’t care too much about that PC Gaming Alliance they helped form. Consoles are where it’s at, if we’re to believe the development cycle for the Unreal Engine.
So you are a hardcore World of Warcraft player and you have been grinding levels and epic gear for years but can only show people i game, well all that has changed now.
You can show off your WoW characters in real life at 1:18 the scale as a small statue. The statues run you about $100 and you need to set up an account with FigurePrints, but then after that you can pose and change the gear on your character for a real life statue to display to your friends.
I think this is a pretty interesting idea and even comes engraved with your characters name on the face plate. It is a bit disturbing though that someone would need one of these statues to look at all the time, maybe after you quit the game it can serve as a memorial for the countless hours of your life that have been wasted?
Microsoft’s keynote today at GDC, but that doesn’t mean their European PR team can’t drop a press release early. In the document, they announced Gears of War 2 in conjunction with Epic. Is anyone really surprised?
The game will be released in November 2008, and will provide more of the story that was originally developed as a trilogy.
The first Gears was a huge success, which we gave Game of the Year in 2006. So go play through that first game again a few times while we wait for Marcus Fenix to make his return later this year.
The internets are swarming with reports that Microsoft might be buying Epic, creators of Gears of War, the Unreal Engine, etc. According to an editorial in GamePro, Microsoft will drop $1 billion on the developer. Mark Rein responded via develop:
“I have not seen the actual GamePro article but if they’re going to make predictions about us selling Epic we would prefer if they started at $2 billion,” he said. “Because we don’t want anyone thinking that we’re cheap.”
This is something I honestly don’t think would happen. With the Unreal Tournament 3 modding on consoles, Mark Rein has made some not-so-nice comments about Microsoft in terms of how things need to be run for the game. Could you imagine if future UT games were pigeon-holed into Windows Live? Or if Microsoft stopped allowing the use and licensing of the Unreal Engine for platforms other than their own? Speculative, but something I hope never happens.
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