Halo is staying with 343 Industries, but there are big changes coming.

After Microsoft announced plans to layoff 10,000 employees, many of which are coming from Xbox studios, the fate of the Halo franchise lingered in limbo. It was initially rumored that main Halo developer, 343 Industries, would be made into a support studio and that other studios would take on main development of future Halo titles.

343 Industries had to make a statement that refutes those claims. In...

A big engine update just arrived.

Today marked the release of Chapter 4 for the battle royale portion of Fortnite. Today also includes a big update to the game's engine which brings Fortnite up to Unreal Engine version 5.1. I felt as though this was a significant enough update to warrant a separate news post away from the other Chapter 4 news (still to come).

With this rather significant engine bump comes a lot of new visual features and changes. Epic Games outlined these...

Will be coming to consoles and PC.

For some months now, rumors were swirling around that Rockstar Games was working on remasters for Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City, and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas. The rumors really began heating up when Rockstar parent company, Take-Two, suddenly began to issue takedown notices for multiple Grand Theft Auto mods. The prevailing thought was that they knew something was being worked on that could jeopardize sales of some sort of...

The first battle in a long war has reached its conclusion.

This past week, Epic had filed for a temporary restraining order in order to prevent Apple from terminating all Epic developer accounts. This was a reactionary response from Apple after Epic Games filed a lawsuit against Apple for kicking Fortnite from the App Store when Epic decided they did not want to play by the rules.

This ban against Unreal Engine would have effectively barred all Unreal Engine developers...

Sounds like it might be Unreal Engine.

Konami still makes games occasionally. One of those games that they make that isn't Bomberman is none other than PES (Pro Evolution Soccer), their annual soccer (or football for you non-Americans) sports release. Konami says today that the future of the franchise on next-gen machines will make use of an "updated engine" that will "enable (them) to dazzle you with staggering improvements to all areas of the game."
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It's been a real rollercoaster of a day for those using the Unity game engine. First, Unity cut off all future support for the online multiplayer platform called SpatialOS. Unity updated their terms of service back on December 4, 2018, and only clarified these changes to the SpatialOS development team at Improbable on January 10, 2019. These changes specifically prevent services like SpatialOS from working with Unity.

SpatialOS is a widely used development toolkit allowed developers...

The System Shock reboot/remaster/remake is back in active development, according to a report from PC Gamer. This is rather noteworthy because the last we knew, development was halted after they apparently ran out of funding. It was also a matter that the team felt they had diverted too far from the original vision of what they had hoped to accomplish with the remake. How will things differ now? For starters, Nightdive CEO Stephen Kick said that they are shifting their focus back to wha...

The System Shock reboot/remaster/remake is back in active development, according to a report from PC Gamer. This is rather noteworthy because...

So long Unity, hello Unreal Engine! The System Shock reboot has moved onto the Unreal Engine 4, which should appease those that find the performance on Unity to be a bit lacking.

Developer Night Dive found that "Unity is not a great engine to use if you want to make an FPS on console." This is according to statements made to Polygon by game director Jason Fader at GDC.
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So long Unity, hello Unreal Engine! The System Shock reboot has moved onto the Unreal Engine 4, which should appease those that find the performance...

Epic just released a new "features" trailer that shows off the latest improvements made to Unreal Engine 4. The video comes to us thanks to GDC 2017, which is going on for the rest of this week.
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Epic just released a new "features" trailer that shows off the latest improvements made to Unreal Engine 4. The video comes to us thanks...

Epic released a new "Sizzle Reel" trailer for 2016. The trailer gives quick glimpses at some of the new and upcoming games that are using Unreal Engine in 2016.

As some bonus good news, an Unreal Engine 4 plugin for Google's Project Tango is also live. And finally, Unreal Tournament is playable at GDC this week. For those that haven't seen it yet, a new trailer for the new map, Chill, came out earlier this week.

Epic released a new "Sizzle Reel" trailer for 2016. The trailer gives quick glimpses at some of the new and upcoming...

Epic Games has released "thousands of assets" from their Infinity Blade collection for free on the Unreal Engine Marketplace. The studio claims...