Silicon Knights ordered to destroy Unreal Engine games

Silicon Knights has received a court order to destroy all game code that used the modified Unreal Engine, and recall and destroy any unsold copies. These include Too Human and X-Men: Destiny.
READ MORE >Ex-People Can Fly devs start The Astronauts

Three devs from Bulletstorm dev People Can Fly have branched out to form a new development house called The Astronauts. They have also licensed Unreal Engine 3 tech for their future games.
READ MORE >"You must have been playing with a nudity mod, personally I don't remember anything unusual about ..."
see all 14 commentsWindows RT to support Unreal Engine 3

Unreal Engine 3 continues to expand its reach to new devices. Epic Games has announced that the ubiquitous multiplatform engine will be available on Windows RT when it launches later this year.
READ MORE >"I don't think this is true, you can deal with native code (c/c++) without having to deal with ..."
see all 14 commentsEpic Games wins 'on all counts' in Silicon Knights lawsuit

The years-long lawsuit between Silicon Knights and Epic Games has come to an end, with the jury ruling in favor of Epic "on all counts."
READ MORE >"SK is an overrated and flawed developer. All of their games are excellent ideas executed horribly."
see all 35 commentsSilicon Knights lawsuit has $1 of damages at stake

Only $1 is at stake in the legal tussle between Silicon Knight and Epic Games that started trial last week.
READ MORE >"Hah. Seems like SK isn't really on the ball where this case is concerned."
see all 10 commentsJudge excludes Silicon Knights' expert testimony in suit with Epic

A recent judges' ruling in the Silicon Knights vs. Epic Games' fiasco gives a clear advantage to Epic, by omitting discredited reports and testimony of a Silicon Knights' 'expert.'
READ MORE >"Man what a load of shit. Claiming damages for potential sales of 2 other games that you havnt ..."
see all 24 commentsSquare Enix licenses Unreal Engine 3 for multiple games

Square Enix has announced that it plans on using Unreal Engine 3 on "multiple games." The deal was brokered in part by Epic Games Japan.
READ MORE >"What about the lighting touches everything that makes it look totally like Unreal lighting and ..."
see all 28 commentsUnreal Engine 4 release aiming for 'day one' on next-gen consoles

Epic Games president Mike Capps talks about the strategies behind developing Unreal Engine 4, and how the company wants to be ready for the next-gen consoles on "day one."
READ MORE >"The Unreal demo was more than just looks... there are techniques going on in that demo which are ..."
see all 62 commentsUnreal Engine 3 coming to Adobe Flash

During his keynote at Adobe MAX 2011, Epic Games founder, CEO, and technical director Tim Sweeney presented attendees with Unreal Engine 3 running inside of a Flash-based environment, revealing support for the engine was coming to Flash Player 11.
READ MORE >"Haha, no. Metro is a streamlined interface for tablets. Microsoft is never going to depreciate ..."
see all 22 commentsEpic Shows Off the Newest Unreal Engine 3 Tech Trailer; November UDK Released

Remember when the joke was that Unreal Engine 3 was the best, next-gen tech to use if developers wanted to add stylish browns to their titles? Epic wants you to forget all that. Epic Game
READ MORE >"You actually prefer that movies look like your player is having cardiac arrest? Somebody explain ..."
see all 74 commentsEpic Games VP Believes Nintendo 3DS Below 'Minimum Specifications' for Unreal Engine

If you were waiting on Unreal Engine support for the Nintendo 3DS before rushing out to pre-order the unit, you might want to stay home. During a...
READ MORE >"Yeah, but the core processor is just that... the graphics chip can make all the difference. It ..."
see all 57 commentsScaleform Being Added to Unreal Engine, UDK

According to a report earlier today by industry magazine Develop, Epic Games and the middleware group Scaleform are going to begin offering...
READ MORE >"Funny, I didn't notice the "inference" typo. I started laughing because here Epic is talking ..."
see all 47 commentsUnreal Engine 3.0 on iPhone GDC Impressions

My first session at GDC 2010 was "Bringing Unreal Engine 3 to iPhone" and I was excited to hear all about Epic Games' plans for the iPhone, iPod...
READ MORE >"If battery is an issue, then it's not gonna be a 3d game with realtime lightning and whatnot. ..."
see all 16 commentsEpic Shows Unreal Engine Running on iPod Touch

Anand Lai Shimpi of Anandtech.com got an interesting tech demo when he sat down with Epic Games' VP Mark Rein last week. Apparently, the...
READ MORE >"Touching the same thing you have to look at is great. This is just what i want to do, use my 1 ..."
see all 39 commentsUnreal Engine 3 Fingered in Midway's Struggles

A number of ex-Midway employees, when asked about the publisher's downward spiral, had a variety of answers, but almost all of them mentioned...
READ MORE >"Yes, it is Midway's failure. They should have evaluated Epic's engine properly and come out of ..."
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"Oh man.. that means no Too Human 2.. so sad, loved the first one."
- Elsaispo see all 54 comments