The Best Game Engines

SlappingOysters writes "IGN has taken a look at the most impressive middleware solutions for the next generation of gaming, giving a detailed analysis of which engines are performing the best and which have the most exciting futures. It runs through the technical strengths of each engine, as well as how that translates into actual gameplay. It also runs through which software has and will be using each engine."

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If only...

[Anonymous Coward]

they had done the same with F/OSS and/or Cross platform game engines, the article would have been significantly more interesting...
Most of the big commercial engines are pretty useless to those without a budget, or with a desire to target their favorite OS...

And Valve is no where?

[i_ate_god]

The Source engine is a great engine and the results frankly impress me a lot more than Unreal engine. Bioshock was an incredible game, but the look and feel of HL2 and it's subsequent episodes/tech demos were far more impressive visually.

Not only that, but the Source engine is painfully easy to mod and is supported by a company that goes out of its way to encourage third party developers to use it.

Frankly I'm disappointed that Source was not mentioned here.

FOSS and Cross Platform Engines

[WK2]

It's not every day I come across a perfectly good excuse to toot my own horn. Here is my list of free game engines: http://www.freegameengines.org/ My definition of "game engine" is a bit stricter than most. I believe Wikipedia has a similar list.

Drivel like this article is why I quit Slashdot. You can quit too! with only occasional relapses.