At PlayStation Meeting 2013, Sony has showed what the PlayStation 4 is capable of through a series of live gameplay demos and tech previews featuring Epic Games Unreal Engine 4 and brand new technology from Quantic Dream that brings lifelike humans to gaming and Capcom with its Panta Rhei engine.
The engine that powered the vast majority of the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3's hit games, Unreal Engine 3, is getting a development kit update to support the soon-to-be-released Oculus Rift VR headset.
"Daylight, " which runs on Epic Games' new Unreal Engine 4 game engine, traps players inside a haunted insane asylum.
And for a taste of games currently on Android based in Unreal Engine 3, check out the incredible trailer for Horn just beyond the break.
Epic Games' original Epic Citadel demo of Unreal Engine 3 on iOS, for example.
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Epic Games' first internal initiative to produce an Unreal Engine 3 project on Android is complete, nearly three years after a similar initiative produced the Epic Citadel demo.
Epic Games will offer the free edition of its Unreal Engine 3, including a suite of game-making tools, together in package called the Unreal Development Kit, starting tomorrow to game and application developers for the iPhone (3GS and 4), iPad and iPod touch (3rd and 4th generation).
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"We are thrilled to collaborate with iFrogz to fully integrate the new Caliber Advantage for use with Unreal Engine 3, " said Mark Rein, vice president of Epic Games.
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And the Chinese firm also bought a minority stake in Epic Games in June - the maker of the Unreal gaming engine used by titles including Mass Effect 3 and Lollipop Chainsaw.
Mike Capps, the president of Epic Games (the studio behind Gears of War, the Unreal engine, and other hits), recently put things into perspective.
In development at Adhesive Games, over 500, 000 people have been playing the Unreal Engine 3-powered shooter through closed betas.
Amazing games including Real Boxing and Hawken, which utilize the latest Unreal Engine technology, look fantastic on Project SHIELD.
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But beyond just Android games we've already seen, still-in-development Unreal Engine 3 title Hawken was also given a multiplayer run, and looked notably more attractive than the previous two titles.
Here is a game that eschews much of what defines the modern shooter genre, that promises an infinite number of customization options, that gives players the capacity to create not just elaborately defined action heroes, but entire worlds and games using the same tools that the developers themselves use in their Unreal Engine 4 action title.
Epic Games isn't just offering up its ubiquitous current-gen game creation tool Unreal Engine 3 to Oculus Rift developers, but also its next-gen tool, Unreal Engine 4.
Originally developed by Epic Games, creators of blockbuster gaming franchises such as Gears of War and Infinity Blade, Unreal Engine 3 is considered a category leader with more than 20 technology awards.
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