Epic’s Project Sword and Epic Citadel

Epic games has recently shown their new project “Project Sword”. For years, Epic has always had their focus on PC and consoles, but for the first time they have shown a new interest – the mobile platform.

On PC and consoles they always focused on high-end graphics and they seem to continue that trend on the iPhone with an incredible demo running in real time; and the best thing is that everyone with an iPhone, iPod touch or iPad can download it for free. Epic citadel is a tech demo that everyone can download and be amazed; the graphics look amazing and it almost feels like you’re looking at a console game.

Not very much is known about Project Sword next to the footage shown in the video and the fact that it will be released this year’s holiday season.

The best part of the entire announcement is the fact that they are planning to release their optimized Unreal Engine for the public; there is not very much known at the moment but if they are planning to go the same route as UDK, it will be a serious contender for the Unity engine. Time will tell.

Check out this video with the onstage announcement and a collection of screenshots:

The rise of Unity

A couple of years ago, when I got the idea to create games, I was looking around for interesting engines I could use. I stumbled upon a very new engine under the name Unity 3D, it had a very small community but some of their demos on the website were very promising, showing millions of polygons and beautiful landscapes right in my browser.
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The Apple Ipad Plays games and lots of them.Run Iphone apps straight of the bat

Run Iphone apps straight of the bat.

But that wont fill the Ipad screen so it can also pixel double and run the apps full screen. Meaning all those Iphone games will run on the Ipad without any trouble. This all and a small list of big publishers and developers behind them this all might turn out nice for Apple. But we do have some question marks, like a 10 hour battery life.

More news as it breaks soon.