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Gears of War Cosplayer Studio Visit

Gears of War Cosplayer GroupSome of our biggest fans traveled hours to celebrate the launch of Gears of War: Judgment with us on March 18th.  They brought with them an arsenal of amazing hand made COG armor which they proudly wore for a tour of the Epic Games studio.

Along the tour the costuming group had the opportunity to meet Art Director Chris Perna, Assistant Producer Andy Bayle, and CEO Tim Sweeney who were truly impressed by their costuming talent and honored to have them visit.

Among the costumers were Brian Mead and his wife Robin as the ultimate Gears of War couple, Marcus and Anya.  Dale Harvey wore his incredible golden Palace Guard armor while George Lampard and his friend Cruz Cockman represented the Carmine brothers.  Miranda Dombroski was all armored up in her own original female COG design made with real steel plates!  The group was kind enough to share their passion for creating these costumes in the video below:

After the tour the group joined the Epic Games team for a few of the local midnight launches for Judgment.  Having them along made the events even more fun and it was very exciting to meet such creative Gears fans!  Check out more great photos below.

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Posted by PixelK1tty Apr 18, 2013
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Epic to Host GDC Drop-In Hours, Oculus to Release Custom UDK

It’s one of our favorite times of year: The annual Game Developers Conference has kicked off, and we have loads of news for everyone this week.

Drop In, Come See Us!

Unreal Engine 4 on IGNDuring each day of the GDC exposition (Wednesday, March 27, through Friday, March 29), Epic is hosting dedicated drop-in hours from 10 – 11 a.m. PDT at our booth in the business center, North #BS322.

These time slots are specifically designed for independent developers and teams who haven’t already secured an appointment to stop by and chat with one of our dedicated territory managers about any questions regarding Unreal Engine technology.

GDC attendees who show up for drop-in hours will be entered into daily raffles for state-of-the-art NVIDIA GTX TITAN graphics cards, which are virtually and physically flying off shelves.

We encourage folks to check out NVIDIA’s booth, South #1602, which is showcasing Epic’s very own Samaritan and Elemental demo content along with a sneak peek at what we’re presenting behind closed doors this year. The entire GeForce wall highlights the progression of our next-gen technology! As a heads up, NVIDIA will have a special reveal from us at their booth on Friday starting at the opening of the expo and running throughout the day.

The Future of VR Is Unreal!

oculus-rift-prototype_800.0_cinema_640.0Today we announced that Oculus VR will release a custom version of the Unreal Development Kit (UDK), the free edition of Unreal Engine 3 (UE3). The special UDK release will ship during the first week of April, giving all Oculus developers award-winning Unreal Engine tools for day one support, right out of the box.

In addition, as Oculus is now a member of Epic’s premier UE3 Integrated Partners Program (IPP), we are providing UE3 full source licensees with the Oculus integration code at no extra charge.

Oculus is showcasing two fantastic Unreal Engine demonstrations at GDC this week as well. The first is Hawken, the incredible mech shooter from Adhesive Games, who started out building their game and easily upgraded to a full source UE3 license. The second awesome VR experience that must be seen to be believed is Epic Citadel – our expanded snowy version as demonstrated by Oculus on Late Night with Jimmy Fallon.

There’s never been a better time to be an Unreal Engine developer. We’ll have more to share with everyone soon throughout the week. Stay tuned and be sure to follow @UnrealEngine!

Posted by Flak Mar 26, 2013
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Pete Knepley, Chris Wynn and Zak Parrish at SXSW

GOW Judgment_Vert_22x28_FINAL_rgbAre you headed to Austin for this year’s SXSW event? Join Epic Games Senior Producer Chris Wynn and Senior Gameplay Programmer Pete Knepley for a discussion about Gears of War: Judgment’s key game modes, tips and tricks for the game and a Q&A session with the audience.

After the presentation, “Gears of War: Judgment – It’s Time For Battle,” the duo will also be premiering a new trailer for Judgment, only to be shown at SXSW. Fans will also have a chance to win a limited edition custom Gears of War: Judgment console!

The panel starts Saturday, March 9 at 3:00 PM at the Palmer Events Center, Exhibit Hall 1 at 900 Barton Springs Rd. For more information and directions to the event, click HERE.

 

Make Awesome Mobile Games with the Unreal Engine

zakJoin Epic’s Zak Parrish, award-winning author of Unreal Engine technology books and training materials, for our all-day SXSW Interactive workshop, “Making Mobile Games With the Unreal Engine.”

The Unreal Development Kit, the free edition of Unreal Engine 3, will be used to demonstrate how popular UE3 tools such as Unreal Kismet and Unreal Matinee can be used to build and ship mobile games across a variety of genres.

Epic encourages attendees to download and explore UDK at www.unrealengine.com/udk prior to the workshop. We’ll also be giving away UDK books to those in attendance.

sxswIn addition, we’ll provide a special preview of Unreal Engine 4’s all-new Blueprint visual scripting tools. Come see the future of game development – hit up SXSW Interactive registration to sign up!

The Unreal Engine workshop kicks off at 9:30 a.m. on Monday, March 11 at Austin’s AT&T Executive Education and Conference Center in Salon C.

Don’t forget about our Gears panel at the SXSW gaming expo on Saturday! Senior Producer Chris Wynn and Senior Gameplay Programmer Pete Knepley for a discussion about Gears of War: Judgment’s key game modes, tips and tricks for the game and a Q&A session with the audience. You can read more about it HERE.

Posted by Flak Mar 05, 2013
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The Unreal Deal Pack is The Daily Deal on Steam!

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The Unreal Deal Pack is on sale on Steam for 66% off! The Deal Pack includes, Unreal Gold, Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Unreal 2, The Awakening, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor’s Choice Edition and Unreal Tournament 3 Black. That’s five games for $13.59, over $10.00 off! Relive the games that started it all.

The daily deal only last for 24 hours, so grab it while you can!

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Posted by Flak Feb 24, 2013
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Unreal Engine 4 on the cover of EDGE #251

EDGE magazine subscribers began receiving the brand new issue #251 this week, which features a never-before-seen frosty variant of the Unreal Engine 4 Elemental knight.

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Today EDGE has published an excerpt of the cover story on Epic’s thoughts on where platforms and technology are headed, including with quotes from our founder Tim Sweeney.

“We’re more enthusiastic now than ever about the future of high-end platforms,” said Sweeney. “What we’re doing on high-end PCs is going to be representative of the future consumer gaming experience and it’s going to be awesome. It’s going to be a substantial leap over the current generation.”

“I’m looking forward to our digital future. Development budgets are going to be the dominant cost in the industry, and [increasing] the efficiency of building games will directly improve profitability. As we move more sales of games out of retail, that creates a lot more flexibility for developers to make games at different scales and price them differently.”

Read more at EDGE.

Posted by Flak Feb 14, 2013
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