Good Old Games Signs Epic Games
November 18, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Corporate, Development, Digital Distribution, Press Releases
CD Projekt’s GOG.com has snatched up Epic Fail, erm, Epic Games to distribute their Unreal titles. Without any DRM. Nice. Read more
Epic Games On Used Game Sales
November 11, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Corporate, Development, Interview, Miscellaneous, Newsbits, Piracy
Ah our good old friends at Epic, notorious for atrocious statements and one-dimensional thickheaded Game Designers, so far, we know Epic’s stance on everything from fucking a girl to how they perceive PC gaming. But what about their opinions on used game sales? Epic’s President Michael Capps chimes in and expounds;
I’ve talked to some developers who are saying “If you want to fight the final boss you go online and pay USD 20, but if you bought the retail version you got it for free”. We don’t make any money when someone rents it, and we don’t make any money when someone buys it used - way more than twice as many people played Gears than bought it…
Epic Expanding Unreal Tournament 3
October 20, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Corporate, Development, First Person Shooter, Genre, Interview, Miscellaneous, Newsbits
The ever exciting (sarcasm) Mark Rein has revealed Epic’s plans of expanding Unreal Tournament 3 by releasing an expansion pack. The expansion pack will supposedly be “Major” with lots of new features and addons.
In fact, we’re working together on a major expansion to Unreal Tournament 3, that we expect will excite and grow our UT3 customer base which, incidentally, now numbers over a million units sold-through world-wide.
Unreal Tournament 3 Bonus Pack 3 Volume II
October 15, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Corporate, Development, Downloads, First Person Shooter, Genre, Miscellaneous, Modifications, Newsbits
When Epic Games isn’t busy crapping on PCs, they are busy churning out community-created content to support their subpar game releases. The UT3 Bonus Pack V3 contains new maps as well as new playable characters. All the info below:
The second volume of the latest Community Bonus Pack for Unreal Tournament 3 is now available, offering new levels created by some of the best UT level designers from around the world. Since CBP1 for Unreal Tournament 2003, the CBP has been known for its professional-quality levels that are considered an essential addition to any UT200X install.
CliffyB Wants Your Attention
October 14, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Corporate, Development, First Person Shooter, Genre, Interview, Miscellaneous, Newsbits, Sim, Strategy
It’s absolutely amazing how egotistical and self-centered people can be. Even more so when we talk about someone like CliffyB who’s a re-owned attention whore. CliffyB’s current crisis: He’s not getting enough attention!
“I don’t think the industry values visionaries as much as it could,” Bleszinski said to Gamasutra. “Look at a guy like [BioShock designer] Ken Levine or [Fable II designer Peter] Molyneux or [Demigod designer] Chris Taylor or [Metal Gear Solid designer Hideo] Kojima. I mean, we all need to celebrate these people,” he asserted.
Rather amazing how Mr.Bleszinski speaks of Molyneux and Levine but just forgets to mention people like Gabe Newell (Half Life), Robin Walker (Team Fortress 2), Will Wright (Sims, Spore) or Sid Meier (Civilization) Don’t worry Cliffy, the day you retire, we’ll all celebrate!
CliffyB.Well.Fall.Die.
September 30, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Corporate, Development, Genre, Miscellaneous, Newsbits, Piracy
The amazing douchebag known as CliffyB as struck once again with his ignorant and misinformed comments. In an interview with TotalVideoGames, the windbag cited piracy as an excuse not to bring Gears of War 2 on the PC. Here’s a quote:
Do you see the Xbox 360 as the main platform as opposed to the PC? During the whole Unreal time it was very much PC focused.
The PC right now is a fair amount different to what it was back in the day, with all the badly integrated video chips. Here’s the problem right now; the person who is savvy enough to want to have a good PC to upgrade their video card, is a person who is savvy enough to know bit torrent to know all the elements so they can pirate software. Therefore, high-end videogames are suffering very much on the PC.
So piracy was a main point for you…
Right now, it makes sense for us to focus on Xbox 360 for a number of reasons. Not least PCs with multiple configurations and piracy.
For fucks sake, Cliffy, do you have your head up your ass? Crysis sold 1 million copies despite the whining that Crytek did. Spore, after all it’s controvesies, lawsuits and hatred, managed to sell 1 million copies in less than a month. Seriously, how pathetic has Epic Games become. Way to orphan the platform that brought you to the dance…
Epic and EA Become Publishing Buddies
August 14, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Development, Genre, Miscellaneous, Newsbits, Release Dates
Electronic Arts has signed a one-game publishing deal with Epic Games. The unannounced title is being developed by Epic Game’s People Can Fly Studios (The guys behind Painkiller) and will be available on PC, PS3 and Xbox360.
“Epic is a legendary studio that is synonymous with quality and EA Partners jumped at the chance to team up with them on the launch of their next blockbuster IP,” said David DeMartini, senior vice president and general manager, EA Partners.
Unreal Tournament 3 - Patch v1.3 Released
August 13, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Corporate, Development, Downloads, First Person Shooter, Genre, Miscellaneous, Newsbits, Patches
Epic Games has released a brand new patch for their mediocre title; Unreal Tournament 3. The patch fixes a plethora of things that include everything from bugs to A.I. and UI fixes as well. Download links and patch notes below:
Patch Notes:
Gameplay:
- Fixed overlay mesh showing up on hidden sniper rifle when un-zoomed.
- UTGame.bNoCustomCharacters is now globalconfig.
- Now hear own auto-taunts.
Read more
Ignition Entertainment Licenses Unreal Engine 3.0
July 7, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Corporate, Development, First Person Shooter, Genre, Miscellaneous, Newsbits, Press Releases
Ignition Entertainment is the latest studio to acquire an Unreal Engine 3.0 license to use in their upcoming multi-platform “groundbreaking” FPS.
Press Release:
Ignition Entertainment, Ltd. (www.ignitionent.com), a UTV enterprise, today announced that the company entered into an agreement with Epic Games to license Unreal Engine 3 for its upcoming, groundbreaking FPS, currently under development at its Florida studio.
“Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 is an extremely versatile engine,” said Jeremy Stieglitz, Game Director and Lead Designer, Ignition Florida. “So when deciding on technology for Ignition Florida’s first next-generation video game, there was no questioning that Unreal Engine 3 is the way to go.” Read more
T-Entertainment Licenses Unreal Engine 3
June 16, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Corporate, Development, Genre, MMORPG, Miscellaneous, Newsbits, Press Releases
More licensing revenue for Epic games as a Korean developer has bought a license for their upcoming MMO; L2.
Press Release:
Seoul-based T-Entertainment today announced that it has licensed Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3 for an upcoming project codenamed L2, a massively multiplayer online role-playing game (MMORPG).
While staying true to the roots of T-Entertainment’s previous MMORPGs, Laghaim and Last Chaos, L2 draws on elements from role-playing (RPG) and real-time strategy (RTS) games, and can be described as “futuristic fantasy with a taste of space opera.” L2 is being developed for PC, and is scheduled for a worldwide release in 2010. Read more
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