Solving game development bottlenecks with cloud computing
Friday, May 13, 2022 by Richard Harris
For years, baking lightmaps have been a necessary but time-consuming part of game development. Pre-calculating lighting information improves performance in-game, but consumes on-premises computing resources, tying up artists' workstations or valuable network machines for minutes, if not hours, at a time.
But now, thanks to the power of cloud computing, ...
New game studio wants to bring back fantasy based retro gaming
Tuesday, November 6, 2018 by Richard Harris
An emerging game studio, Storytellers Entertainment, is hoping to spark a new generation of fantasy based retro gaming with the development of “Imperium Omni”, a four part serialized solo-RPG set in the vast fictional world of Aeris Pri. The game is to be released on PC with future expansion to Xbox and PS4 console platforms.
The company, established by f...
Unreal Engine Marketplace says it will take less developer revenue
Wednesday, July 18, 2018 by Richard Harris
Epic Games has just made a sweeping change to the Unreal Engine Marketplace, whereby creators on the store will now receive 88% of their product sales, "an increase from the common 70% / 30% split of other digital stores."
The Unreal Engine Marketplace is a store targeting the Unreal Engine community, and enabling game developers to purchase digital co...
Google ARCore SDK releases Unreal Engine support
Friday, September 1, 2017 by Richard Harris
Google has announced ARCore, bringing augmented reality (AR) functionality to Android smartphones. Developers can immediately get started with Google’s developer preview of ARCore, which also includes Unreal Engine support. ARCore enables AR development across Android ecosystem, giving developers the ability to make compelling AR experiences without the need for any add...
Watch the new Epic Games Unreal Engine 4 video
Thursday, March 2, 2017 by Richard Harris
The new Unreal Engine video highlights some tools such as photo-real character rendering, professional grade cinematography, high-performance VR at 90 FPS, access to the full editor in VR, lighting and editing via the Sequencer cinematic tool, flexible post-processing, Blueprint visual scripting, the visual Material Editor, GPU-accelerated particle simulations, full C++...
Unreal Engine brings virtual character to life onstage
Tuesday, November 22, 2016 by Richard Harris
Doors opened in London for The Royal Shakespeare Company’s bold new production of William Shakespeare’s The Tempest in collaboration with The Imaginarium Studios and Intel. For the first time in history, a digital character driven by live motion capture performance will be featured onstage in a major classical production - and it’s all rendered in Unreal Engine, Epic Ga...
Granite for Unreal Adds Advanced Texture Streaming to Unreal Engine 4
Sunday, December 27, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Granite for Unreal is a new solution that adds the Granite SDK to Unreal Engine 4, enabling game developers to handle substantial amounts of texture data while using less memory and eliminating loading time.Available as a limited commercial seat license, Granite for Unreal eliminates texture-related memory and loading time issues to get ultra-high quality graphics in re...
Unreal Engine 4.9 Release Offers Game Developers 129 Improvements
Tuesday, September 8, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
Epic Games has released Unreal Engine 4.9 offering 129 improvements to its gaming engine which is designed to accelerate developers’ productivity for creating high-quality games and applications, training simulations, 3D visualizations, digital films and animated entertainment. Improvements span across PC, mobile, console and VR.For mobile devices, new additions include...
FaceFX Releases Plugin for Unreal Engine 4
Tuesday, July 14, 2015 by Stuart Parkerson
FaceFX, is now integrated with Unreal Engine 4 and is free for non-commercial, educational, and indie use below $500,000 of revenue. The company is offering Studio Professional for $19.95 per month (3 month minimum) for a limited time to allow Unreal game developers to tryout the platform.FaceFX offers an advanced facial animation solution which liberates artists from t...
Epic Games Showcases Four Presentations from GDC Including an Unreal Engine Deployment for Mobile and HTML5
Tuesday, March 17, 2015 by Richard Harris
For the people attending GDC, it was a blur of panels, demos and parties and it’s just impossible to see everything during the chaos of the show. Of course, if you weren’t able to attend, then you just were out of luck. Epic Games has just added four of its presentations to YouTube, including the open world Kite demo, which renders 100 square miles of populated lan...
So Far The Big News From GDC, Corona and Unreal Engine 4 Are Now Free To Use!
Monday, March 2, 2015 by Richard Harris
Only an hour into the day at GDC and some big news already hit, Corona and Unreal 4 gaming engines are now free for all! Yes - even the pro editions! For Corona, there are no longer Starter, Basic and Pro tiers. Instead, all users of Corona SDK get everything the Pro tier included (and there are no more tiers, just "Corona SDK"). It is worth noting that Corona...
Epic Games is Offering Developers Up to $50,000 Per Project for Unreal Engine 4 Game Development
Sunday, February 22, 2015 by Richard Harris
Epic has created a $5,000,000 game development fund to provide financial grants to projects built in and around Unreal Engine 4 with awards ranging from $5,000 to $50,000. Epic says that there are no strings attached and game developers can continue to own their own IP, are free to publish however they wish, and can use the grant funds without any restrictions or obliga...
App Developers Can Preview HTML5 and Maxwell GPU Games Built with Epic’s Unreal Engine 4
Thursday, November 13, 2014 by Richard Harris
Mozilla and NVIDIA are working with the team at Epic Games to release two Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) projects that show the flexibility of the game development engine.Unreal Engine Strategy Game Demo for HTML5Hosted at Mozilla Demo Studio as part of Firefox’s 10th anniversary feature, Epic Games’ tower defense game sample is a showcase for high-performance 3D content running...
Game Developers Using Epic Games See Big Changes in Unreal Engine 4.5
Wednesday, October 15, 2014 by Richard Harris
Epic Games has released a significant update to its gaming platform with Unreal Engine 4.5 which includes hundreds of targeted improvements, enhanced support for mobile platforms and consoles, an all new tutorial system, new game templates and more than 40 features and improvements.The 4.5 release includes features such as animation retargeting, automatic C++ hot reload...
Epic’s Unreal Engine 4.4 Gaming Platform Released
Wednesday, August 20, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Epic has released Unreal Engine 4.4, which includes the first preview release of Unreal Motion Graphics, the company’s new UI design and scripting toolset. Also in this version Behavior Tree Editor, their AI logic tool, is enabled by default and ready for use. This latest version also offers improvements to the Persona Animation Editor and Paper 2D. Support for And...
Epic Releases Unreal Engine 4.3 for Game Development with Over 500 Enhancements
Monday, July 21, 2014 by Richard Harris
Epic released the latest update to Unreal Engine, Unreal Engine 4.3, which integrates a wide range of enhancements and new features for subscribers. Since launching in March at GDC with its monthly subscription model, Unreal Engine 4 has seen a continual stream of improvements, with over 500 coming in the 4.3 update alone.The 4.3 update brings greatly improved...
Watch out Unity 5, Epic Fires Back with Unreal Engine 4 $19 Game Developer Deal
Wednesday, March 19, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
We love a good heavyweight battle, and have seen one of the best as Apple and Google have squared off in the mobile battle of the century (at least the beginning of this century).This week, two more heavy hitters are going at it during the Game Developers Conference. Earlier this week, Unity announced a new, upcoming Unity 5 as well as industry partnerships al...
Mozilla and Epic Preview Unreal Engine 4 Running in Firefox To Scale from PC | Console to Mobile Gaming Development
Monday, March 17, 2014 by Stuart Parkerson
Mozilla is flexing its Firefox gaming muscles as it joins with Epic Games to demonstrate the ability of the Web as a platform for gaming by porting Unreal Engine 3 to the Web. Epic Citadel, using asm.js, is a supercharged subset of JavaScript pioneered by Mozilla. Unreal Engine 4 is built to power the next generation of ...
