Stalker 2 has made me look back and realize that maybe it was a mistake to make Epic Games' Unreal Engine 5 become an industry standard for the next decade.
]]>The extraction shooter subgenre continues to grow, with new and exciting releases appearing on the scene every few months. Usually, these games only exist in pre-release trailers and hyperbolic blurb about their level of ballistics simulation, but most never see the light of day.
]]>Stormgate, one of very few games trying to revive the RTS genre, has kicked off a Kickstarter funding campaign with a very informative pitch video. The campaign reached its modest $100,000 goal in 15 minutes, and went on to clear most of its stretch goals.
]]>I didn’t know quite what to expect from Lords of the Fallen. This is also a sentence I know I must’ve uttered ten years ago, prior to the release of Lords of the Fallen (2014). The two games looked visually impressive in trailers, and you could tell it was a point of pride for the developers of both games to really show how their work outshines its inspirations – and plenty of games available at the time.
]]>After what seemed like years, a developer switch-up, and a bizarre name change - Lords of the Fallen is finally days away from release. That's 14 days, to be exact, as of this writing.
]]>CD Projekt Red recently revealed that the much-anticipated The Witcher Remake will be an open-world game as per its financial reports for Q3, 2022.
]]>A new Unreal Engine 5 trailer hypung up an as-of-yet unnamed project based on the Korean Fantasy Novel, The Bird That Drinks Tears, has been released. The visual concept trailer, titled The Nhaga Eater, is a fairly violent affair kicking off with a decapitation before we see the brutal aftermath of a larger, bloodier battle.
]]>Bloober Team is back with yet another spine-tingling trainer for the upcoming psychological horror game, Layers of Fears. The game was first announced back in June, but we know a lot more about what to expect when it releases in early 2023.
]]>If you consider yourself a fan of fantasy, specifically the kind of fantasy written by working class British people who have sadly left this world in a boat drifting towards the sunset, then this new Lord of the Rings Unreal Engine 5 concept trailer might be right up your alley.
]]>Who doesn’t love a good racing game? Wheels on the road, racing around intricate tracks and weaving between obstacles as you dash for the finish line. Unreal Engine 5 developer, Ronnie Ree, certainly does - and they’ve expressed their love for racing games in a project mixing together Mario Kart and Hot Wheels.
]]>Remember Halo 3: ODST - the brave redirection of the legendary sci-fi FPS towards a slower, more tactical and stealthier experience that won the hearts and minds of many a Xbox 360 owner back in the day? Well, if you’ve got a fond place in your heart for it, you can re-explore New Mumbasa’s shadowy streets in a stunning new Unreal Engine 5 project: Dropzone.
]]>If you’re like us, the idea of Bloodborne 2 has us dreaming of what a hypothetical sequel to the excellent gothic action RPG would look like. What dark corners of the world would we explore? What horrors would await us there? It’s enough to make a person sick. Enter a recently released Unreal Engine 5 montage - which aims to further explore the premise.
]]>Another day, another excellent Unreal Engine 5 project out in the wild to stare slack-jawed at. This time around, it’s a truly excellent first person shooter project from Reddit user Vreski who has recently shown off an extended gameplay demo of a high-intensity gunfight packed with slow motion bullet dives and explosions of tables, chairs, and bloody gory bits.
]]>Are you a fan of the Halo series, and the gorgeous alien worlds it takes you to? We’ve been to some great places in the series’ twenty years history: the dark forest and sprawling interiors of 323 Guilty Spark in Halo 1, the Forerunner Gas Mine in Halo 2, or the gigantic open world of Halo Infinite’s Zeta Halo.
]]>Just when we thought we had seen it all, someone has gone ahead and flipped our world upside down using Unreal Engine 5. How’d they do it? Well, they made a UE5 demo initially featuring a cute squirrel running around minding their own business. However, it’s when the squirrel picks up a gun that we were truly won over.
]]>You're probably a fan of Need for Speed; the franchise – which has been knocking around for some 28 years at this point – has racked up some 150 million sales in its lifetime. It's been under the care of some of the most notable names in racing, including EA Canada, EA Black Box, Slightly Mad Studios, Criterion, and Ghost Games.
]]>Power down those chainsaws and get ready to leave the planet to the wrath of the grubs – the Gears 5 developer is just about ready to give up on its last game and move onto something wholly different.
]]>Another week, and another impressive looking Unreal Engine 5 project has appeared for us to goggle and gawk at. This time, Arni village from adored JRPG Chrono Cross has gotten a top-to-bottom makeover in the new engine, courtesy of the youtuber Studio logic.
]]>Crystal Dynamics has announced that its next Tomb Raider game is being built on Unreal Engine 5.
]]>Yesterday’s announcement that CD Projekt RED is working on a new title in The Witcher series was hardly a surprise. Big studio works on sequel to their massively successful game is not an earth-shattering headline. One element of the announcement did come as a surprise, however: an engine switch.
]]>It's official: The Matrix Awakens Unreal Engine 5 tech demo is real – and it's available for you to download now for PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S ahead of it's mysterious full reveal later this week.
]]>Some sort of tie-in between The Matrix Resurrections and Unreal Engine 5 is coming to PS5 and it's called The Matrix Awakens.
]]>YouTuber Reubs has remade The Simpsons: Hit and Run in Unreal Engine 5, and even added some ray traced lighting.
]]>Gears of War developer The Coalition has debuted new footage showing off what it's capable of in an Unreal Engine 5 demo that teases real new-gen graphics.
]]>The Coalition, the Xbox Games Studio known for developing the modern Gears of War titles, appears to be working on a new IP, a LinkedIn page has suggested.
]]>The Coalition's next project may be a couple of years away, but we'll be seeing something from the team soon.
]]>inXile Entertainment, the development studio behind the Wasteland series and Torment: Tides of Numenera, has teased its next game as an FPS RPG.
]]>Gears of War developer The Coalition has announced it's moving to the Unreal Engine 5 begins production on 'multiple new projects' in the esteemed action series.
]]>This article first appeared on USgamer, a partner publication of VG247. Some content, such as this article, has been migrated to VG247 for posterity after USgamer's closure - but it has not been edited or further vetted by the VG247 team.
]]>The VP of engineering at Epic Games, Nick Penwarden, recently stated that the PS5 is a "masterpiece of systems design."
]]>It was recently confirmed that the vast majority of the games shown during the PS5 reveal from earlier this week run on Unreal Engine.
]]>Hellblade 2 will indeed be using Unreal Engine 5.
]]>The SSD inside every PS5 is going to be transformative for game development, and the maker of Unreal Engine has seen it firsthand.
]]>We recently got our first glimpse of what video games could look like on PS5 thanks to a tech demo for Unreal Engine 5.
]]>The next big game from Wasteland developer inXile will run on Epic's new Unreal Engine 5.
]]>It was recently confirmed that the Nanite and Lumen technology for Unreal Engine 5 will be supported on both PS5 and Xbox Series X.
]]>With the push to bring film-quality assets to games with Unreal Engine 5, some worry game sizes are about to balloon.
]]>In a recent call with Geoff Keighley, Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney said, "The world of loading screens is over."
]]>It was recently confirmed that Fortnite will be a next-gen launch title across multiple platforms, before gradually being rebuilt using Unreal Engine 5.
]]>Epic is opening up its Online Services package to game developers.
]]>Epic Games has revealed a first look at the PlayStation 5 running a real-time demo of its newly announced Unreal 5 game engine.
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