Latest news about Unreal Engine 4 + Teaser!

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Check this out, some more info about the "Epic" Unreal Engine 4!

Here we go:

US Magazine GI has revealed more details for the upcoming Epic's next-gen graphical engine. The company worked with Intel, AMD, NVIDIA and QualComm 'to plan out the techs road map'.

The latest issue of US Magazine Game Informer has more details on Epic's Unreal Engine 4.

Apparently, Epic is planning for Unreal 4′s lifecycle to last around a decade, beginning with the launch of the next-gen systems.

Here is a summary of the details:

Epic talked with hardware manufacturers like Intel, AMD, Nvidia and Qualcomm to workout a tech road map.

The demo GI saw was running on a single Nvidia GeForce GTX 680

New image based Lens Flare tech, occurs dynamically.

UE4 capable of producing one million particles at once with no hit to game peformance.

Planning to release UE4 dev kit soon

Epic wants "to empower game designers, to take charge of as much of the game production process as possible"

"Next gen will be about alot of things besides just next-gen graphics performance"

UE4 being designed for a decade that starts with the advent of next gen consoles

Entire creation process streamlined, Designers can edit and recompile source code without leaving the editor,take control of the game anytime they want.

"New interface empowers designers to tweak basic programming without having to call over a programmer, Tech artists will be able to create complex assets and programmers can expose certain values for designers as needed to give them access to simple tweaks"

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Expect more details about the engine in the upcoming days, when -hopefully- we will finally see it in action.

Meanwhile, enjoy this teaser GIF:

This is running REAL-TIME!

Hopefully it will run smoothly on Laptops, atleast on 7970m/680m!

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