In an interview with Edge Online, Tim Sweeney the founder of Epic Games and creator of the Unreal engine, commented on the future of gaming graphics and business. He expressed enthusiasm regarding future console graphics and also predicted the fall of retail game sales followed by the dominant rise of online game sales. Tim Sweeney continued expressing that game development budgets should focus far less on marketing and more … [ Read More... ]
2012 was a big year for gaming technology. While there haven’t been a ton of technological advancements completed, quite a few have now been publicly shown or advanced considerably. We take a look at our favorite gaming technologies shown off in 2012.
1 Oculus Rift Prototype (from Oculus VR)
Why? Oculus VR & Palmer Luckey showed us the first enjoyable and emersive virtual reality experience this year. Low … [ Read More... ]
Epic showed a preview of their new graphics engine, the Unreal 4 Engine, at the Game Developers Conference 2012 (GDC). The preview demonstrates the new engine’s impressive abilities to render lighting, particle effects and more. This is all expected… after all, it is the new Unreal engine. More importantly though, Epic is working towards multiple agendas with this engine. The obvious one is to make the next … [ Read More... ]