Tag: Epic Games
News Fortnite Is Adding A Whole New 5v5 FPS Mode On Xbox This Week
Epic lands a counter strike
These days, Fortnite is more a gaming platform than a traditional video game, and Epic's new 'Ballistic' game mode only further highlights this - it's basically Counter-Strike but built into the battle royale title as a whole separate experience. Ballistic — "an adrenaline-filled, round-based 5v5 game mode" — is an...
News Halo Enters 'New Dawn' With New Studio Name, Engine And Games
'Halo Studios' is developing multiple games on UE5
Before kicking off the 2024 Halo World Championships, Microsoft announced a "new dawn" for the Halo series - with 343 Studios rebranding (and expanding) as Halo Studios while also revealing a new game engine and a new philosophy. Going forward, the Halo series will now run on Unreal Engine 5. All...
Random Streamer Beats Gears Of War On Insane Difficulty In 2024, Without Ever Taking Cover
Now this is a mad world
Beating any of the Gears games on Insane difficulty is no small feat, but what if you were mad enough to try and do it without ever taking cover? Well, Twitch streamer Arrrash has decided to replay the first game — specifically 2015's Gears of War: Ultimate Edition — in 2024, without using the game's cover mechanic...
News Disney Invests $1.5 Billion In Epic To Create New Universe Connected To Fortnite
"Disney's biggest entry ever into the world of games"
Disney and Epic Games have announced an "all new games and entertainment universe" connected to Fortnite to expand the reach of key IP. As part of this, Disney is also investing $1.5 billion to acquire an equity stake in Epic Games alongside this "multiyear" project. Disney's Chief Executive...
News Gears Of War Creator Says He Rejected A PG-13 Movie Proposal
"I'm like 'No, screw you guys'"
Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski recently appeared on the 'Xbox Expansion Pass' podcast, reflecting on a funny story about the original plans for a blockbuster Gears of War movie. According to the industry legend, also involved in series' such as Jazz Jackrabbit, executives wanted to make the ultra-gory Gears...
News Epic CEO Makes Outspoken Statement About Microsoft 'Empowering Developers'
"Congratulations to Microsoft on a well-deserved honor"
You may have seen in the news recently that Microsoft has overtaken Apple in becoming "the world's most valuable company", and Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has had something to say on the matter. Sweeney has congratulated the Xbox owner for its achievement, while making a not-so-subtle dig at...
Talking Point Has Xbox Done A Good Job With Gears Of War So Far?
Microsoft bought the IP 10 years ago
Gears of War is one of Xbox's premiere franchises - it has been since the first game arrived as an Xbox exclusive in the fall of 2006. Epic Games was at the helm back then — as it was for the whole original trilogy — but, how do you feel about the direction Xbox has taken since? If you remember, Microsoft...
News Digital Foundry Looks At Unreal Engine 5's 'Mixed' Start On Xbox Series X|S
"The early results have been mixed"
Unreal Engine 5 has been one of the most prominent game engines of the current generation so far, with Epic's well-known toolset powering lots of recent AAA titles. While some projects, such as The Matrix Awakens, have been impressive - some have failed to deliver on what we'd expect from a 'next-gen' title. And...
Talking Point Xbox's Influential Gears Of War Sequel Is Now 15 Years Old
Happy belated birthday, Gears 2!
Ahh, the original Gears trilogy - one of our absolute favourite collections in the Xbox library. We had so much fun on these games back in the day, and this week, the second game in the series celebrated a rather substantial birthday. Gears of War 2 is now 15 years of age, and it was a pretty influential game for its...
News Remedy Dev Thanks Epic Games For Being 'Nothing But Supportive' On Alan Wake 2
"They let us make the game we wanted"
Well, the early reviews are in, and it's safe to say that Alan Wake 2 has gone down very well indeed with most critics so far. In the wake of Remedy's review embargo lifting today, the team's communications director has thanked publisher Epic Games - and their comment gives us some insight into why Alan Wake 2...
News Fortnite Creator Epic Games Laying Off 870 Employees
Fall Guys team reportedly "hit very hard"
Following news about Sega's project Hyenas being axed and potentially leading to job losses, the Fortnite creator Epic Games has announced it's laying off 870 employees at its own company. These job cuts are believed to impact about 16% of Epic's workforce, according to sources who wish to remain anonymous...
Talking Point Did You Play Epic's Ill-Fated Gears Of War Spinoff On Xbox 360?
We won't judge you for it
2013 ended up being a swansong year for the Xbox 360, with fantastic titles like Tomb Raider, Bioshock Infinite and believe it or not, Grand Theft Auto V debuting on the system in its final year. However, on the exclusive front things dried up a little bit prior to the Xbox One's arrival in November 2013. Forza Horizon...
News Fortnite Is Reportedly Going Full FPS Next Season With New First Person Mode
Would you play this?
Fortnite continues to grow and evolve in huge ways with pretty much every new season of content - truth be told, it can be hard to keep up with what's going on in Epic's ever-popular battle royale. However, reports of a first person mode coming to the game next season have piqued our interest. Well-known Fortnite content...
News Xbox 360 Era Gears Of War Director Teases Return To Franchise
Mr. Ortega worked on Gears 2, 3 & more!
The Coalition has seemingly been working away on its next Gears of War game for a few years at this point, with Gears 5 launching back in 2019. While we've not seen any kind of real 'Gears 6' announcement just yet, a key developer from the Xbox 360 days of the franchise has seemingly returned to work on it...
News Fortnite Analysis Shows Xbox Series X|S Version Transformed By Unreal Engine 5.1 Upgrade
New horizons
A week ago, we caught wind of Epic's brand new Fortnite update that began to bring some fresh Unreal Engine 5.1 elements to the long-running battle royale title. In short, a selection of big 'next-gen' UE5 features like Nanite, Lumen, Virtual Shadow Maps, and Temporal Super Resolution all arrived with Fortnite's latest update, and
News Gears Of War Creator On Sale To Xbox: 'Epic Didn't Really Know What To Do With The Franchise'
So Microsoft took charge
Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski recently chatted with IGN about his new book 'Control Freak', and as usual, Gears was a major talking point. In one segment, he touched on the sale of the franchise to Microsoft in 2014 - mentioning how Epic didn't really seem to know what to do with the series after he left alongside...
News Gears Of War Designer Talks The Struggles Of Launching On Xbox 360
Before it went on to become a flagship Xbox game!
Way back in 2006, the current behemoth that is Epic Games created Gears of War, an iconic Xbox franchise in this day and age. However, back when the first game was in development, Epic was a very different company made up of a much smaller team. Gameplay designer at the time, Lee Perry, has now sat...
News New Witcher Game Announced By CD Projekt Red
In partnership with Epic Games
Update: CDPR Global PR Director Radek Grabowski has provided a little extra context to this, advising that the game hasn't been announced as 'The Witcher 4', so we've removed that name from the headline for the time being. Original story: In a new blog post from
News Xbox Joins With Epic Games To Donate Fortnite Proceeds To Ukraine
Phil Spencer issues statement
The Xbox team at Microsoft have announced that they're joining Epic Games in support of the people of Ukraine by contributing net proceeds for Fortnite during the period between March 20th and April 3rd, 2022. This follows a message from Fortnite developer Epic Games over the weekend that the company would be...
Rumour Alan Wake 2 Will Be At The Game Awards This Week
"It will make its grand reveal"
The Game Awards 2021 takes place this Thursday, and it's been suggested that Remedy and Epic Games' Alan Wake 2 will get its "grand reveal" at the event, as stated by YouTuber NateTheHate on his latest podcast. The discussion, which included VentureBeat's Jeff Grubb and YouTuber MVG, was primarily about predictions...
News Rock Band Creator Harmonix Has Been Acquired By Epic Games
"To create musical journeys and gameplay for Fortnite"
Harmonix, the development team best known for creating the Rock Band series of games, has announced today that it has been acquired by Epic Games, which has tasked the studio to "create musical journeys and gameplay for Fortnite". In a post on the Harmonix website, the company stated that it...
News Microsoft 'Encourages' Steam and Epic Games To Join Windows 11's New App Store
"As others want to come to the Store, they’re very welcome"
Microsoft held the big unveiling of Windows 11 yesterday, and in addition to highlighting many of its Xbox gaming-related features, the company spoke a bit about the possibility of Steam and the Epic Games Store being integrated. In an interview with The Verge, Windows and device chief...
Random A Gears Of War 3 PS3 Prototype Has Been Released Online
Requires a debug unit to run
Last May, leaked footage of Gears of War 3 running on a PlayStation 3 devkit appeared online. At the time, Epic Games noted how it had been used in Unreal Engine 3 for internal testing purposes and was never an "actual product work". Now, the same prototype version (dated 19th May 2011) has been uploaded to the...
Rumour Alan Wake 2 Is In Development With Remedy And Epic Games
Wake up, Alan
Remedy has been building a connected universe with Control, bringing elements back to previous games such as Alan Wake. It was confirmed the next title was going to be part of something called the Remedy Connected Universe, and according to one industry insider, the next game is seemingly going to be Alan Wake 2. Jeff Grubb, famously...
News Epic Games Shares A Look At Its New 'MetaHuman Creator' Tool
"The tool compresses weeks or months of work"
Epic Games has today lifted the lid on a browser-based app called "MetaHuman Creator", which will reportedly allow developers and creators to make digital humans at a much faster rate in the future. As reported by VentureBeat, this tool runs in the cloud using a technology called "Unreal Engine Pixel...
News Gears Of War Creator Says He's Got Some Ideas For A 'Little' Game
"the success of Fall Guys and Among Us give me hope"
Gears of War creator Cliff Bleszinski has previously mentioned how he wouldn't mind returning to the video game industry. At the start of the year, he even offered to help Microsoft out with the sixth Gears game - explaining how he had some unfinished business. Now, in a recent Facebook post...
News Apple Can't Block Epic's Unreal Engine, Rules Judge
"The record shows significant potential damage..."
Microsoft stepped into the ongoing drama between Epic Games and Apple this past weekend by filing a statement in support of Epic's request to keep access to the Apple SDK for its Unreal Engine, and in a temporary restraining order, a judge has now ruled in favour of Epic in that regard (via The...
News Microsoft Files Statement In Support Of Epic Games Against Apple
Relating to Unreal Engine
Microsoft has stepped into the battle between Epic Games and Apple, filing a statement in support of the former and explaining that Apple's support of Epic's Unreal Engine is critical for gamers and developers. The conflict between Epic and Apple began back in mid-August when Fortnite released an update that bypassed Apple...
News The First Avenger Captain America Arrives In Fortnite
Wield the shield
Epic Games has just revealed Captain America for its ever-evolving battle royale game, Fortnite. Of course, this super-soldier is armed with his indestructible shield and iron will. Here's a bit more about what to expect from this new outfit - now available from the Item Store, along with a video: Cap’s Outfit includes two...
News Epic Games: Unreal Engine 5 Will Run Well On All Next-Gen Platforms
"The next generation is going to be amazing for all gamers"
Epic Games' Tim Sweeney and Kim Libreri recently took part in an interview with GameSpot for the company's Play For All event, and talked more about Unreal Engine 5 and Xbox Series X. Last month, the company's
News Epic Delays Launch Of Fortnite Chapter 2, Season 3 By A Further Week
"We appreciate your patience and understanding"
Epic Games has announced that it's delayed the start of Fortnite Chapter 2, Season 3 for a third time. The new season, which was previously scheduled for June 11, will now begin on Wednesday, June 17. Live event "The Device" is set to take place two days earlier on Monday, June 15. In a statement,...
News Gears Of War PS3 Footage Appears Online, Epic Games Comments
It's the real deal
The eight-hour long footage you see above is of Xbox 360 game Gears of War 3 running on a PS3 devkit. The description explains that this version is dated May 19, 2011, and is the only build of this ever located. Following lots of speculation, Epic Games has now revealed the reason for its existence. While even Gears of War 3...
News Epic CEO Reassures Xbox Fans Following PS5 Unreal Engine 5 Demo
Talks Xbox Series X
There's been a lot of discussion surrounding this week's Unreal Engine 5 tech demo, which was said to be running on a PS5 devkit. Epic Games has done a lot of talking about the PlayStation 5 as a result, but CEO Tim Sweeney recently took to Twitter to reassure Xbox (and PC) fans as well. In his tweet, Sweeney revealed that the...
News Epic Games To Publish New Titles From Control, Inside, The Last Guardian Devs
"A new multiplatform publishing effort"
We reported earlier today that Remedy Entertainment had signed an agreement with a 'major publisher' to develop two next-gen games. Well, that publisher is none other than Epic Games, which has revealed it's also working with Playdead (Inside, Limbo) and gen Design (The Last Guardian) in a "new multiplatform...
