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August 20, 2007
Digital Extremes Weighs In On Unreal Engine 3 for PS3
Digital Extremes Weighs In On Unreal Engine 3 for PS3 Digital Extremes’ Steve Sinclair, game director on the forthcoming Dark Sector, has spoken out against the company’s long time partners Epic Games, with further criticism of the Unreal Engine 3 middleware.
Canadian developer Digital Extremes have been long time partners of Epic Games, co-developing the original 1998 Unreal game and the subsequent Unreal Tournament titles for PC and console. With Dark Sector, though, the company has elected to develop its own proprietary graphics engine, rather than using Unreal Engine 3.
Speaking in a new interview with consumer website Gameplayer, Sinclair commented that: “A lot of promises were made about the Unreal III engine [sic], particularly on PS3. But as we see now, the time frames haven’t been met and now a lot of games using it are being held up.”
Public criticism of Unreal Engine 3 began last month with Too Human developer Silicon Knights filing a lawsuit against creators Epic Games, claiming that they were “sabotaging” the efforts of Silicon Knights and others to develop their own games while using licensing fees from the middleware to fund the creation of Gears Of War. In response Epic Games issued a countersuit against Silicon Knights.