Lots of exciting news for fans of the tech behind games as well as the final products.

Epic co-founder Mark Rein commented on Twitter today that Unreal Development Kit – a free, revenue-share version of Unreal Engine – has reached 1.5 million installs. That’s a heck of a lot of novice, indie and hobby developers with access to one of the industry’s most respected toolsets.

In other Unreal Engine news, Rein mentioned yesterday that Epic had signed a “big new Unreal Engine 4 licensee” but couldn’t give details. (I assume it’s not Zynga.)

Unreal Engine 4 itself will make its public debut on SpikeTV tonight, in an episode of GT.TV to be aired at 1:00AMPDT. The engine was shown to press last month.

http://www.vg247.com/2012/06/08/unreal-development-kit-hits-1-5-million-installs-unreal-4-to-be-broadcast-today/

Wow I though that Warnar Bros brought the exclusive rights for UR4

Can't wait to see footage of this.

what? why would you think that?

the final fantasy demo looked far more impressive than that.

did they show it already?

yea it's up on gametrailers

and yea Squeenix really stole their thunder, their demo was much more impressive 

http://www.vgchartz.com/article/84926/warner-bros-sign-deal-with-epic-to-use-unreal-exclusively/

My bad I though it was UR4 but it was UR3. 

ether way that is exclusively as in they will only use UE3 to make their games, not that they have exclusive rights to use UE3

Final Fantasy demo looked better as did the Star Wars 1313 demo. It was still impressive though. Makes me wonder how powerful next gen will really be.