A New IP of Epic Proportions
We’ve spotted a new game IP on the horizon, and it’s coming from a very reputable developer.
It wasn’t long ago that Cliff Bleszinski mentioned he was itching to move on from Gears of War, despite Gears of War 3 being the current focus of his development team, Epic Games. To stay fresh and on top of the industry it’s always smart to look to the future, so it comes as no surprise that Cliff was serious in saying this, and now we have evidence that Epic is indeed moving on to new properties. A recent job posting seeking a gameplay programmer for Epic has been spotted, which specifically mentions that they are looking for someone to “join the team currently working on Gears of War 3, as well as a new unannounced IP in development.” Unfortunately, the rest of the posting offers no further clues, with just the usual run down about looking for someone with design experience, Unreal Engine experience, and get this – programming skills.
We can’t even assume the game will be multiplatform, but we sure can be hopeful. After the release of Bulletstorm earlier this year it would be nice to see more from Epic Games hitting our platform, but the game’s inability to turn a profit might make them hesitant to do so. It’s a shame that’s the case, since Bulletstorm is a good game, and provides the type of shooting and foul mouthed comic relief Duke Nukem Forever should have had. Hopefully, Epic Games will give us another shot at playing through another well made adventure, and we’ll let you know as soon as we find out if that’s the case, which will likely be after Gears of War 3‘s in September.
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9 Responses to “A New IP of Epic Proportions”
aren’t they doing something for vita ? could be a cross platform ps3/vita game.
How do we know it’s even coming to the PS3?
“We can’t even assume the game will be multiplatform, but we sure can be hopeful.” – We don’t know for sure, but fingers crossed it will be.
I’m not a fan of Epic anymore there games seem to be easy. Bulletstorm is all gimmicks and its almost impossible to die, watching the Gears of War 3 demo at E3 seems to be the same, fighting a 50 foot monster and they only got hit once by accident by the smaller creatures. May be fun but I’m not a fan
I gave up on Epic as soon as they turned their favor from PC to Xbox 360. While the tech demo for the new Unreal engine was impressive, I just can’t muster enough strength to give a crap about anything with Cliffy’s name attached to it in this day and age.
Going from PC to X-box is not that hard a move to make especially for the 360. If you look at the hardware specs on the 360 it is just a dedicated Mac Clone gaming machine with code added to play regular X-box games from the Intel Xenon CPU. To do that they had to get permission from Sony/IBM since it required some changes in the core code for the PPC chip that is shared by the Wii/360 and is the core of the PS3′s Cell Broadband Processor.
If Sony could license that code they could also play X-box games but that will never happen.
Never cared for Epic. Not about to start now.
I played the Bulletstorm demo and was not impressed. Just a killing focused game that seemed to be whipped together for no reason. I believe I read somewhere that Cliff said “We just needed something to fuck with Killzone,” so they released it the same day as KZ. I lost any potential respect for him when I saw him talking about Gears 3 at E3 and I just saw them playing up Ice T like that would make everyone buy the game and then talked about his Lambo or whatever car he fucking drove to E3 like it mattered. It showed me that money is all he cared about. I know his name is a bit different, but everyone calls him Cliffy B like he’s a good friend that they know, when all they do is play the game he made. I’m not going to say that I think Teddy P did a good job on Resistance. I’ll say that Ted Price and his team at Insomniac did a good job on it.
So they decided the best way to screw with Killzone was to release a game that was nowhere near as good, half the length and completly stupid in nature? Well done Epic Games, I’m sure Guerrila Games are shaking in their boots.
I hate this guy so much, everyone talks like he’s the only person that was involved in the creation of Gears of War and it must be so insulting for the other guys who worked on the game with him.