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16-08-2011, 14:46
Epic Games is working on five new games that have nothing to do with Gears of War, president Mike Capps has revealed.
Each of the games are in varying stages of development.
"It's nice to target the PC as a primary platform again," teased Capps, "not just for ports."
The revelation was made during a presentation at Gamescom in Germany today. Responding to an audience question, Capps suggested these five titles maybe smaller in scope than, say, the Gears of War projects.
"At Epic we didn't multiply the studio size by five when we started workig on these multiple projects," answered Capps, "so you can make some assumptions about the size of those projects".
Capps went on to suggest that companies need smaller-sized projects to counter-balance the big-bucks, high-stakes blockbusters.
"Everyone knows the middle class is disappearing from the console business," he said. "Gears of War I hope will do really well, but a pretty good game doesn't make its money back any more. A game like Homefront sells a couple of million copies and they close the studio, right?
"That's not enough any more. That's pretty depressing. You don't want to see what happens to an industry where it's Call of Duty, Halo and Gears and no-one else has enough money to make any games any more. That's not a fun industry.
"I can't bet my entire company every time I make a game," declared Capps. "That's a really dangerous business."
GamesIndustry.biz reporter Dan Pearson attended the speech.
Epic Games-owned studio Chair has already promised to make Shadow Complex 2. That Chair will also follow-up its success with Infinity Blade on iOS devices is also probable.
Fonte: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-08-16-epic-games-working-on-five-new-titles
Finalmente la piattaforma di riferimento tornerebbe ad essere il PC :D
Uno dei titoli al 100% sarà UT4 (o UT20xx dipende come lo chiameranno) che uscirà appunto con il nuovo motore grafico.
Un altro è una IP del tutto nuova annunciata di recente di cui non si sa nulla (forse ambientata nell'universo del trailer Samaritan??).
Magari uno dei titoli nuovi potrebbe essere Unreal III visto che UE -> Unreal, UE2 -> Unreal 2 the Awakening, UE3 -> ???
Personalmente quello che mi piacerebbe sarebbe un "UT3 e 1/2" solo multiplayer che utilizzi la stessa versione dell'engine dell'UDK che così si potrebbe utilizzare come editor per fare le mappe e con qualche aggiunta rispetto ad UT3 tipo modalità Assalto, Bombing Run etc. Un po' quello che UT2004 è stato per UT2003 per capirci.
/discuss
Each of the games are in varying stages of development.
"It's nice to target the PC as a primary platform again," teased Capps, "not just for ports."
The revelation was made during a presentation at Gamescom in Germany today. Responding to an audience question, Capps suggested these five titles maybe smaller in scope than, say, the Gears of War projects.
"At Epic we didn't multiply the studio size by five when we started workig on these multiple projects," answered Capps, "so you can make some assumptions about the size of those projects".
Capps went on to suggest that companies need smaller-sized projects to counter-balance the big-bucks, high-stakes blockbusters.
"Everyone knows the middle class is disappearing from the console business," he said. "Gears of War I hope will do really well, but a pretty good game doesn't make its money back any more. A game like Homefront sells a couple of million copies and they close the studio, right?
"That's not enough any more. That's pretty depressing. You don't want to see what happens to an industry where it's Call of Duty, Halo and Gears and no-one else has enough money to make any games any more. That's not a fun industry.
"I can't bet my entire company every time I make a game," declared Capps. "That's a really dangerous business."
GamesIndustry.biz reporter Dan Pearson attended the speech.
Epic Games-owned studio Chair has already promised to make Shadow Complex 2. That Chair will also follow-up its success with Infinity Blade on iOS devices is also probable.
Fonte: http://www.eurogamer.net/articles/2011-08-16-epic-games-working-on-five-new-titles
Finalmente la piattaforma di riferimento tornerebbe ad essere il PC :D
Uno dei titoli al 100% sarà UT4 (o UT20xx dipende come lo chiameranno) che uscirà appunto con il nuovo motore grafico.
Un altro è una IP del tutto nuova annunciata di recente di cui non si sa nulla (forse ambientata nell'universo del trailer Samaritan??).
Magari uno dei titoli nuovi potrebbe essere Unreal III visto che UE -> Unreal, UE2 -> Unreal 2 the Awakening, UE3 -> ???
Personalmente quello che mi piacerebbe sarebbe un "UT3 e 1/2" solo multiplayer che utilizzi la stessa versione dell'engine dell'UDK che così si potrebbe utilizzare come editor per fare le mappe e con qualche aggiunta rispetto ad UT3 tipo modalità Assalto, Bombing Run etc. Un po' quello che UT2004 è stato per UT2003 per capirci.
/discuss