Epic Games reveals a some of their plans concerning the Unreal 4 engine during this year's DICE convention with the main part being the engine will debut this year.
The first game to use the new engine will arrive later this year although the studio did not mention if it will be another tech demo (ala Samaritan last year) or an actual fully developed game. The earliest the current project could be shown would be at GDC (Game Developer's Conference) in March but most likely would be debuted at this year's E3 convention.
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"People are going to be shocked later this year when they see Unreal Engine 4 and how much more profound an effect it will have."
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Epic Games also hinted both the tech used in the Samaritan demo and the upcoming Unreal 4 engine is meant mainly for the next generation of consoles due to them having no plans to modify the engine to work on current consoles. The main reason being the Samaritan demo alone is roughly 10 times more powerful than the GPU in the Xbox 360.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/we-c...ion-later-year
http://kotaku.com/5884423/unreals-ne...n-the-xbox-360
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Daily Recap:
1) Update to Double Fine's online donations on Kickstarter as the total has reached over $1.6 million with 3 weeks still left in the fundraiser.
http://www.giantbomb.com/news/16-mil...counting/3981/
2) Valve updates their findings regarding last November's hacking of Steam with the confirmation of personal info was indeed accessed but only on the server holding transactions done between 2004 to 2008.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/user...-steam-hacking
3) Rockstar announces LA Noire might be getting a sequel but wouldn't be occurring any time soon nor would Team Bondi be working on the potential game.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/...l-is-possible/
4) In an interview with Entertainment Weekly, Shigeru Miyamoto was asked what his favorite and least favorite characters in the Mario Kart universe were with Mario being his favorite and Toad being the one he dislikes the most.
http://mynintendonews.com/2012/02/13...-on-poor-toad/