Epic Games' Tim Sweeney Talks AR, VR, UE4, Fortnite, and Switch at GDC 2018
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Shacknews caught up with Tim Sweeney at GDC 2018 to talk about Unreal Engine 4 and much more.
READ MORE >Fan-Made Diddy Kong Racing 64 Running on Unreal Engine 4 Looks Amazing
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Donkey Kong's best buddy's racing game is due for an HD reboot, and one fan took it into his own hands.
READ MORE >"Not gonna lie, they need to tone down the post processing on that. It looks super blurry and ..."
see all 5 commentsCelebrate Cyber Monday With Unreal Engine 4 Deals
Get some asset and development kits at a discount.
READ MORE >Watch Adam Bromell (eonix) Stream Astroneer Development Live on Twitch Here @ 9 PM EST
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see all 6 commentsUnity and Unreal will support development within virtual reality
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Now creators can be inside of their virtual world while it's being created.
READ MORE >Mozilla Makes Web Games Without Plugins Possible
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Mozilla announced today that in cooperation with Unity Technologies and Epic Games, developers can now export their games to be played within a web browser without the need for plugins.
READ MORE >Unreal Engine Has Been Set Free
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Today, Tim Sweeney announced a shocking new price for popular game development tool, Unreal Engine 4.
READ MORE >Unreal Engine aiming to be 'next level' Minecraft
Unreal Engine general manager Ray Davis says the team has been inspired by Minecraft, and wants to make its building tools as fun and easy to use as the popular game.
READ MORE >"Yeah; I sighed at the title at first, thinking it was a reference to Fortnite, but making level ..."
see all 12 commentsUnreal Engine 4's latest tools demoed in new video
In a new video released by Epic, Zak Parrish walks through some of the new features of the Unreal Engine's latest iteration.
READ MORE >Unreal Engine 4 now available via monthly subscription model
Developers that are interested in making games off Unreal Engine will be able to do so for cheap through a new monthly subscription model. For...
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see all 11 commentsEpic shows Unreal 4 Engine running in-browser
Epic Games and Mozilla have partnered for a new tech video, showing two Unreal Engine 4 demos running in-browser without plugins.
READ MORE >Unreal Engine 3 HTML 5 tech demo released
"The Unreal Engine running in a browser without any plugins, purely on HTML 5, WebGL and JavaScript? Pull the other one, lass, it's got bells on," says someone or other. "I bet you believe everything The Man tells you." No, curious character! It's real and everything! Why, y...
READ MORE >"It has great performance at 5760x1080 on FF nightly, but it calculates FOV badly so it's really ..."
see all 48 commentsPS4 'isn't quite as powerful as Epic was hoping for,' Digital Foundry reports
By comparing the first Unreal Engine 4 tech demo, running on a PC equipped with an Nvidia GTX 680, with the latest presentation running on a PlayStation. By analyzing the two, minute differences where the PS4 comes short can be found.
READ MORE >"Only really noticed Tessellation, Depth of Field, and some lighting issues the rest were about ..."
see all 70 commentsEpic Games VP explains why PS4 is like 'the world's best PC'
One of the biggest changes for the upcoming console generation is the switch to x86 architecture. What does Epic Games--developer of the near-ubiquitous Unreal Engine--have to say about it? Well, they're gushing as well.
READ MORE >"It also had things like tesselation and some other features that didn't hit until the next gen."
see all 33 commentsUnreal Engine 4 to support HTML 5, will be 'end of drivers'
At the Game Developers Conference, Epic Games detailed the scalability and ease-of-use tools in its upcoming Unreal Engine 4.
READ MORE >"It depends on the browser and platform. It's up for a browser to use hardware acceleration. For ..."
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