Mark Rein, vice president of Unreal Engine creator Epic Games, says he will be "shocked" if Nintendo's new console, Wii U, doesn't do well. Speaking to Eurogamer at GDC last week, Rein said Wii U - which was unveiled at E3 last year and will be shown off at this year's conference ahead of a release later in 2012 - was much changed from what was unveiled last year. More >
1Epic Games has shown off the progress it has made running Unreal Engine in Flash, saying that its long-term goal is to run the Samaritan demo in Adobe's technology. Speaking during a GDC presentation, Epic Games VP Mark Rein showed off Dungeon Defenders running in full screen just as well as it does on PS3, according to Gamesindustry.biz. "This isn't your father's FarmVille," Rein quipped at the close. More >
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Unreal Engine 4 will be revealed later this year, Mark Rein has confirmed, with the Epic Games vice-president saying people will be "shocked" when they see what the company's next-gen tech has to offer. Speaking at last week's DICE Summit in Las Vegas as reported by Loud-Mouthed Gamers, Rein said that UE4 was already up and running on "systems I can't talk about by name." More >
1Epic Games says it is at work on a fix an issue affecting Infinity Blade II, which was released for iOS devices this week. In a post on the Epic Games forums, co-founder Mark Rein pinned the blame for the problem, which affects iPad 1 and iPod Touch users, on users having too many apps installed on their devices. More >
1The Unreal Development Kit has been installed more than a million times, Epic Games co-founder Mark Rein has revealed. "This isn’t a download count nor does it count users who installed a new version of UDK over an old version, or reinstalls," Rein clarifies in a post on Unreal Insider. More >
Epic's Mark Rein on UDK's major new update, Wii U and the difficulty with Android.
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