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New Technologies to be Revealed at GDC 2005

Posted by Zonk on from the looking-forward-to-the-shiny dept.

Game technology developers Havok and Epic both plan to introduce the newest iterations of their systems at this year's GDC. Havok will be revealing the newest version of their middleware, while Epic Systems will be showing the Unreal Engine version 3 along with their new scripting tools and AI behaviors. From the article: "...seamless world support allows the creation of virtually unending environments through background management of game levels and assets. Even titles not requiring open world support will benefit from these memory management techniques on next-generation console platforms."

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  1. UReal engine looks sweet by superpulpsicle · · Score: 3, Insightful

    But I guess I'd need a 5Ghz PC with 6GB of RAM with another $600 video card upgrade thru Nvidia/ATI.

  2. Only Slightly Stale Technologies To Be Re-Revealed by nick_davison · · Score: 4, Funny

    Game technology developers Havok and Epic both plan to introduce the newest iterations of their systems at this year's GDC... Epic Systems will be showing the Unreal Engine version 3

    Unreal Engine 3 was demo'd at E3 last year. True, it hasn't been released yet but it's also not an introduction if the world has already been introduced to it.

    I'm looking forward to the aftershow party where Michael Jackson will be unveiling his "Moonwalk", whatever that might be.

  3. Bioware / Unreal Engine 3 by jacoplane · · Score: 4, Informative

    Bioware have already licensed the Unreal Engine 3 for a project they have said will be a RPG. Bioware of course is the company behind Baldur's Gate and Knights of the Old Republic.

  4. Unreal Engine E3 Video by jacoplane · · Score: 3, Informative

    Check out the video from E3:
    Link, Link 2