We all saw the battle of the game engines, as Epic, Crytek and Unity fought over their respective game engines, offering up knock-down prices for subscription services that look hard to resist. The competition’s far from over though, as Epic has now future-proofed its brand-new engine for the latest gaming consoles, as well as doing Gabe Newell a hefty favour with Linux and Steam OS support…
Unreal Engine 4 is available now to would-be developer for a $19 per month subscription fee. The days of devs forking out millions of dollars to license game engines now seem but a hazy memory.
I know from the tech demos that I’ve seen over the years that UE4 is a bit of a beast, but until now there’s nothing out there actually released to support it. Next week’s procedurally generated horror Daylight has become the engine’s debut, bucking Epic’s trend of showcasing its latest and greatest engine with its latest and greatest game. Epic is course busy beavering away on Fortnite, a co-op sandbox survival game where players must work together to erect a fort by day, before fending off invaders at 'nite'.
So what does this mean for you, the gamer? Well, more games. Games galore. A games extravaganza on nearly every platform. The steamrolling Linux support could well see a huge shift in gaming as the years roll by, but for now it’s looking like Steam OS could be getting a strong start when it officially launches later this year.
Unreal Engine 3 was undoubtedly the stand-out engine of the previous generation of videogames, do you think its successor will stand up tall in the next round of games?Let me know!
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