Neowin News Feed for: Epic games

Epic Games: PlayStation 4, next Xbox 'going heavily' on free-to-play games

John Callaham — Thu, 09 May 2013 18:37:19 +0100

Epic Games VP Mark Rein says that Microsoft will be "going heavily" on the free-to-play model for games made for the next Xbox, as well as Sony with its PlayStation 4 console. Read more...

Epic Citadel HTML5 demo launched; IE browsers are left out

John Callaham — Fri, 03 May 2013 01:01:28 +0100

Epic Games has launched a version of its free Unreal Engine 3 demo, Epic Citadel, for HTML5 browsers. However, the demo won't work on any Internet Explorer browsers due to its lack of WebGL support. Read more...

Epic Games: We can still get more out of Xbox 360 hardware

John Callaham — Fri, 08 Mar 2013 18:44:14 +0000

Even though Microsoft is rumored to announce a successor to the Xbox 360 later this year, developer Epic Games feels that games can still squeeze more out of the current Xbox 360 console's hardware. Read more...

Microsoft vows to go after Gears of War: Judgment pirates

John Callaham — Tue, 19 Feb 2013 14:05:57 +0000

Microsoft says it plans to take "vigorous action" against those people who have leaked and/or downloaded a pirated copy of the upcoming Xbox 360 game Gears of War Judgement. Read more...

Zombie Studios to release Unreal Engine 4 game in 2013

John Callaham — Tue, 18 Dec 2012 22:11:04 +0000

Zombie Studios has announced it has licensed the Unreal Engine 4 tools from Epic Games to make a new "psychological thriller game" that will be released in the second quarter of 2013. Read more...

Mike Capps departs as president of Epic Games

John Callaham — Wed, 05 Dec 2012 00:55:44 +0000

Mike Capps, who has worked at Epic Games for 10 years and has been its president for several years, has decided to depart the company but will remain on its board and will be an adviser. Read more...

Judge says Silicon Knights illegally copied Unreal Engine

John Callaham — Fri, 09 Nov 2012 23:16:00 +0000

A judge has ruled that Silicon Knights must now pay even more money in their court case against Epic Games, stating that Silicon Knights "copied significant portions" of Epic's Unreal Engine. Read more...

Editorial: Microsoft's left hand ... please meet right hand

John Callaham — Thu, 11 Oct 2012 20:54:10 +0100

Microsoft's decision to keep PEGI 18 rated games out of the Windows Store feature of Windows 8 means that some Microsoft games, such as the hit Gears of War titles, can't be sold in the Windows Store. Read more...

Cliff Bleszinski departs Epic Games

John Callaham — Thu, 04 Oct 2012 02:03:11 +0100

Cliff Bleszinski, the long time design director at Epic Games, has announced he is leaving the game developer where he helped to create titles like the Unreal Tournament and Gears of Wars series. Read more...

Epic Games Seattle opens for Unreal Engine 4 work

John Callaham — Thu, 06 Sep 2012 23:07:19 +0100

Epic Games has announced it is opening up yet another game development studio in Seattle where the team will work at first on engineering efforts for Unreal Engine 4. Read more...

Unreal Engine 3 ported to Windows RT

John Callaham — Wed, 29 Aug 2012 16:20:43 +0100

Epic Games has announced that it has ported Unreal Engine 3 so it can work on products running on Microsoft's Windows RT OS, and showed off a demo running on Asus' Windows RT tablet. Read more...

Epic Games buys out rest of People Can Fly

John Callaham — Mon, 13 Aug 2012 18:19:45 +0100

Epic Games has announced that it has bought out the rest of what it didn't already own in Bulletstorm and Painkiller developer People Can Fly, while its original founders have departed. Read more...

Fortnite could use "always on" online feature

John Callaham — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 17:06:42 +0100

Epic Games is apparently considering an "always on" online feature for its upcoming action-strategy game Fortnite but if it is put it, it will be used for gameplay and not as a DRM feature. Read more...

Fortnite: Epic's PC-exclusive, Unreal Engine 4 sandbox game

Tim Schiesser — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 02:33:22 +0100

Epic today announced officially their upcoming game Fortnite, which will be a PC-exclusive title utilizing the Unreal Engine 4. It features sandbox survival co-op gameplay, and looks to be very fun Read more...

Fortnite to be fully revealed at San Diego Comic-Con

John Callaham — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 21:45:10 +0100

Epic Games will make a full reveal of its next major game Fortnite at a panel held during the massive and sold out San Diego Comic-Con event to be held in mid-July. Read more...

Tencent buys minority stake in Epic Games

John Callaham — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 14:59:20 +0100

Epic Games has announced that Chinese game publisher Tencent has bought a minority stake in the Gears of War and Unreal Engine creators. The specifics of the deal were not disclosed. Read more...

E3 2012: Unreal Engine 4 impressions

John Callaham — Fri, 08 Jun 2012 14:38:30 +0100

We got to see a live demo of Unreal Engine 4, the next version of Epic Games' popular game development tools and technology behind closed doors at E3 2012 this week. Read more...

E3 2012: Microsoft announce a host of new games at E3

Byron Hinson — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 20:49:27 +0100

Microsoft today announced a number of new Xbox 360 games which are in development as we speak. Games such as Ascend: New Gods, Joe Danger: The Movie and more were detailed alongside Forza Horizon... Read more...

Epic announces Baltimore studio from ex-Big Huge Games staff

Anthony Tosie — Mon, 04 Jun 2012 00:40:42 +0100

Former employees of Big Huge Games are forming a new Epic subsidiary, Epic Baltimore, it was revealed today. The number of individuals joining the new studio is currently unknown. Read more...

Next Gears of War game gets Judgement subtitle

John Callaham — Sat, 02 Jun 2012 20:00:10 +0100

The next Gears of War game now has a proper title, Gears of War Judgement, with word that it is a prequel to the original game trilogy and that People Can Fly is the main developer. Read more...