Epic to Show Unreal Engine 4 at GDC

[Ethan_Hunt]

According to Epic, a preview of its "next-generation game technology" will be shown to "select licensees, partners and prospective customers during the exhibition." The company notes that "space is very limited" and that the presentation will be viewable by appointment only.

This follows the Samaritan Unreal Engine tech demo that Epic revealed at last year's GDC. Last year, Epic's Tim Sweeney told IGN that Unreal Engine 4 is "technology that won't see the light of day until probably around 2014," so the actual release of the engine could still be quite far away.

At the time, Sweeney described the tech as doing "some really cool things that just aren't practical today, but soon will be." He added that Unreal Engine 4 is "exploring areas of the technology nobody else is really yet contemplating because they're still a few years away from practicality."

GDC will take place in San Francisco from March 5th through 9th.

Source: IGN

I have high expectations from this engine. Unreal Engine 3 had a great amount of potential and was exploited to the max by many developers, but as every other engine, it's aging out.

 

[Gannu]

UE 3 has been by far the most versatile game engine used. The engine was used across all the major platforms including mobile based Open GL platforms Android and iOS. But it is about time the next generation of the UE is due considering the tenth generation of consoles are speculated to be out sometime in 2013-2014 and engines from other devs. such as the id Tech 5 (Tech 6 is in development as we speak!), CryENGINE 3, Frostbite 2 etc. to name a popular few have proven to be competitive in terms of visual quality and performance.

A recap of the UE 3 real-time demo - Samaritan, which was showcased before:

[media]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XgS67BwPfFY[/media]

 

[ramdante]

This engine's going to make our systems cry!

 

[Zloyd]

Awesome demo !!

 

[aproxymate]

[font=arial, sans-serif]"[/font][font="arial, sans-serif"]technology that won't see the light of day until probably around 2014[/font][font=arial, sans-serif],"[/font]

[font=arial, sans-serif]Yes, let's just wait for consoles to play catch-up before having any innovation in graphics. [/font]

 

[dragon_unleashed]

UE4 is just looking awesome...

 

[Scorpy]

Whats the point in telling all this if no preview is shown to the masses ? I mean any company can say whatever hes saying and I don't mean hes lying but only teasing isn't enough :/ .