![]() ![]() Its community gets hold of it and immediately starts creating new content, spurred on by the twin incentives of game ‘ownership’ and financial gain. ![]() ![]() And a new Unreal Tournament which incentives mass adoption of its engine is one hell of a smart idea.Ĭonsider this: Epic puts out the new game. With Gears now handed off to Microsoft wholesale, a new Unreal Tournament is exactly the showcase Epic needs. While UE3 swept to ubiquity at a rapid pace after Gears of War demonstrated its power, its follow-up hasn’t yet achieved the same sort of traction. Having dominated last-gen’s third-party development with its ludicrously prolific Unreal Engine 3, it’s entirely in Epic’s interests to have that happen again with UE4. And it all comes back that engine licensing business. There is, however, a secret stealth benefit for Epic here, in the form of a quiet, long-term power-play that could easily go unnoticed amid the excitement of the game’s announcement. ![]()
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