EA Announces Multi-Title Unreal Engine 3 License

Posted by ryuzaki0 on Sunday August 20, 2006 @02:30AM from the hope-that-goes-well dept.

An anonymous reader writes to mention a Gamasutra article about a surprising announcement from EA. They've made the move to license the Unreal 3 Engine for a series of next-generation titles. "The brief announcement states that EA 'employs a variety of engines, tools and technologies to best serve the needs of each game and development team', but raises interesting issues regarding the Criterion-authored Renderware engine, purchased by EA in 2004 alongside the Burnout developer, and its intended global EA rollout."

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Re:Another Boneheaded Move By EA by Anonymous Coward · 2006-08-20 03:39 · Score: 0, Flamebait

"UE3 is an engine designed for the archaic x86 pc architecture(weak CPU connected to a GPU by a slow bus)"

Can the anti-x86 trolls just move along please? You don't know a damned thing about CPU design, yet you feel qualified to blather on about how poor the x86 is, despite the fact that it still walks all over everything even remotely in it's price range.