TW2 POTFF Velvet GOTY Edition on October 18th, 2011, Packshots Released!

Topware/Zuxxez have just sent us final versions of the Velvet edition packshots, along with the more detailed info on the Expansion itself and Velvet edition-only bonuses:

Las Vegas, Nevada – July 15th, 2011 –
TopWare Interactive is releasing the Two Worlds II: Velvet GOTY Edition this October 18th and they are doing so with glamorous class! The TWII: Velvet GOTY Edition not only comes bundled with the sought-after expansion Pirates of the Flying Fortress, but is also uniquely designed in a limited collector’s box which is wrapped in black velvet (PC/Mac) or red velvet (console versions) and highlighted with metal corners made to look like antique brass. Moreover, there is a bold relief TWII logo of the same real metal at the top of the box.

Along with the multi-lingual version of TWII, this collector’s item also comes with all of the up-to-date upgrades. Additional extras include a huge double-sided world map and a valuable pirate head pin collectable, which subsequently is also available in-game! This exclusive item actually boosts the player’s parameters if hefted to armor! Together with another bonus disc containing artwork, wallpaper, videos, an extended soundtrack and two additional PvP multiplayer maps. More Antaloor simply isn’t possible!

This limited collector’s edition will be available for PC, Mac, Xbox 360 and PS3!

The contents of the Velvet GOTY edition aren’t as posh as the original TW2 Royal Edition (which came with a Cassara figurine and a whole bucketload of other goodies), but it does contain a unique in-game item (pirate pin — apparently, a type of unique enhancement crystal for CRAFT(tm) system), but also (and this is a very nice bonus indeed) TWO new PVP maps (considering an overall shortage of MP content this is a more than welcome addition!). Check the packshots below!

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SOE Fan Faire 2010 Info Released

Sounds like you may even get a sneak peek at games such asThe Agencythis year, tasty! Check it out and scribble it into your list of things to do:

Save The Date! SOE Fan Faire Set For Aug. 5 – 8 In Las Vegas

3/04/2010 10:00 a.m.

Join us at Bally’s Las Vegas for three days of fun and games at Fan Faire 2010 from August 5-8. If you have never been to an SOE Fan Faire before, this is the time to make the trek to Sin City! Fan Faire is a great place for gamers to mix, mingle and meet with some of the faces behind their favorite SOE titles.

Here are just some of the great activities we’re planning:

• Special announcements and sneak peaks of upcoming SOE titles
• In-game tournaments and live, game-themed competitions and quests
• Developer forums and roundtables
• Cool giveaways and other fun items!

And, that’s just the beginning! Check back for up-to-date information on registration, pricing and schedules. Tickets are expected to go on sale early this spring.

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Game Update – It’s Been a Long Road

MMORPG.com’s Carolyn Koh recently traveled to Sony Online Entertainment’s Fan Faire. While there, she spoke with Vnaguard Lead Designer and Acting Producer Salim Grant about the current state of the game.

At the recent SOE FanFaire in Las Vegas, I made a point to speak with Salim Grant, the Lead Designer and Acting Producer of Vanguard: Saga of Heroes to get an update on the game. He spoke with passion and enthusiasm, if not a little fatigue.

"We’ve worked hard. Very hard in the past two years," he said, "to make Vanguard what it should have been at launch. Finally, we are at a point where we are deciding what to do next instead of asking what we needed to fix next."

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Fan Faire 2009 Player of the Year Winners

SOEhas announcedtheir 2009 Player of the Year winners. Below you’ll find the winners from EQ and EQ2, along with their entries.

From EQII:

Bownzer (alts: Bownz, Seelenschrei, Lazyone) from the Crushbone server!
You can see the entry made on his behalf at TheBrasse.com!

From EQ:

Palarran from The Tribunal server!

Palarran’s entry:

Gather ’round the fire my friends
To hear a tale of yore
By Karana’s hand, a druid began
He changed Norrath evermore

Palarran Taurina is of whom we speak
We’re here to tell of deeds
Big or small, he does them all
All you have to do is ask, and he helps fulfill your needs

In every guild there is dissension
No matter your faction, clique or friends
Love them, hate them or indifferent
With Palarran’s guiding hand and wisdom friction ends

Dragon kill points need to be updated?
Palarran is the man that toils away
Need help to get that flag?
Palarran is the man who’ll lend a hand, so that here you will stay

Who lives in a knothole in Tunare’s tree?
Palarran is the man and he goes meep, meep!
Our shining knight… oops druid
Palarran is here for keeps

Leaders come and leaders go
But Palarran’s mettle n’er becomes unfurled
A decade later, still playing together
(Rest in Peace) will rule the world

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Stop The Vanguard Presses!

Vanguard Players brings us the latest community news, in their spiffy little newspaper format. Included in the latest newspaper… Ask a Dev a Question – May (Poll), Telon’s Next Top Model, Dungeon Plunder, and Advertising Your Crafts!

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SOE Podcast #63 Hits The Web

Official SOE Podcast #63 is now live, stop by the podcast’s official site to listen in on the latest from SOE. Episode #63 features an interview with Alan "Brenlo" Crosby, the new Producer for EverQuest II, hear the introduction to the summer’s podramedy, the Grumpy Old Gamer talks about his upcoming trip to Fan Faire, and they have the top 10 games you won’t see at E3 this year.

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Pantheon Game Update Notes

The folks at Vanguard have posted the patch notes for the major Pantheon Game Update which went live of Thursday.

Halls of the Pantheon

The Halls of Pantheon is finally here. The first part of the great architect Artera’s story has finally been released and now is your chance to prove to the gods of Telon you are worthy of their blessings. Within the halls you will be asked to do many things as you increase your favor with the gods until finally correcting the imbalance of creation and unlocking the path that leads into the halls of shattered souls and the truth behind the gods of Telon and their years of silence. It is up to you adventurers, crafters, and diplomats to unlock the secrets within the halls and prove once again that the inhabitants of Telon are a force to be reckoned with.

Feature Details:

• 200 new quests
• 1000+ new items
• 2 new flying mounts
• Choose your alignment and reap the rewards
• Find out the truth behind the schemes of Kamelott
• Become a god warrior and unlock the way to the Halls of Shattered Souls
• Craft enhancements making them more powerful
• Craft god armor
• Craft a unique epic weapon for each class
• New item mods
• New resistances

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Halls of the Pantheon Update Goes Live

Hall of the Pantheon hits Vanguard, the first part of the Artera’s story has been realized. Now it’s time for you to prove your worth! Within the halls you will be asked to do many things to increase your favor with the gods. It’s up to all adventurers, crafters and diplomats to unblock the secret halls.

Feature Details:

• 200 new quests
• 1000+ new items
• 2 new flying mounts
• Choose your alignment and reap the rewards
• Find out the truth behind the schemes of Kamelott
• Become a god warrior and unlock the way to the Halls of Shattered Souls
• Craft enhancements making them more powerful
• Craft god armor
• Craft a unique epic weapon for each class
• New item mods
• New resistances 

Level Increase

• New level cap is 55
• 95 new abilities
• Spell crafting added
• Item levels increased
• New crafting related quest series

Items

• Bow max ranges have been reduced.
• Fixed an issue where the Kamelott Rucksack had slots when it was not supposed too.
• Fixed haste buff on panther mask to increase attack speed and not decrease it.
• KDQ crates can now only be opened in Kamelott’s landing
• Fixed an issue with fireseed refresh discrepancy

 
Abilities

• All counterattacks now have a minimum endurance/mana cost.
• Stroke of Fervor now has an endurance cost
• Stroke of Conviction now has an endurance cost
• All rogue abilities requiring piercing now properly check for the dagger in the main hand.
• Accuracy buffs should now properly buff spell accuracy
• Fixed an issue where some abilities that were supposed to only modify the refresh haste of modular attacks were affecting other modular abilities
• Fixed the Halfling racial (FINALLY!!!)
• Fixed an issue that prevented minions from assisting properly as intended.
• Dementia now has a max target limit
• Hewing the Mountain now buffs your group for 10 seconds or 1 attack
• The Dark elf racial has been modified.
• Warrior offensive form should once again have its accuracy bonus
• Fixed an issue where abilities affected by zeal would not display added attack damage.
• Time Trick 2 should now work like 1 and 3
• Fixed an issue with quelling winds it should actually work now.
• Treeshape will now wipe hate while it is in effect.
• Many secret chains should now display their icons again.
• The body enhancement buffs from KDQ should no longer wear off

General

• All corpses now last 2 hours max
• Paladins should now have archery skill
• A camp of KDQ agents has popped up near the Bridge of Destiny.
• All npcs in KDQ should now drop tier 6 skins
• Tier 6 metal can now be harvested in SOD
• Mobile Power suit should work correctly now
• Fixed an issue with caps that has been around for the past few years. Many items and ability caps should now work properly.
• Updated the character sheet to show new resist types.
• Added new hairstyles for most races.
• Thinned out the density of the bridge NPCs just a little.
• Fix for escrow items having incorrect prices show up
• All exp debt has been wiped.
• All exp into 50 has been reset to 0.
• All brotherhood exp has been reset.
• All tombstones have been sent to escrow.
• Adjusted the loot tables of Yerkj & Rinipin. They will now only drop 1 class specific item per kill.
• The Ruined Jharuu Sword and Runed Jharuu Sword are now longswords.
• Synchronize now works with the Summoners Cap of Control version of Time Trick.
• An altar has been added to IOG
• Zyxil and omac have had their pathing adjusted
• Yiminil no longer roams.

 
Quests

• KDQ quest rewards have had their monetary amount reduced.
• Fix for quests not abandoning properly sometimes when expired

 
Raids

• Karax is now level 59
• Karax loot tables have been overhauled due to his level increase.

 
Crafting

• Kaius Rufish and his excavation team have work for skilled crafters in the Pantheon.
• Shajin Graywine is doing research in the Pantheon and is requesting help from talented diplomats.
• Geoffery Wallsten in New Targonor has a new rumor about an artisan’s treasure from long ago. Interested crafters should seek him out.
• An informant in the Pantheon named Delroz is willing to trade prestige for lore in the Pantheon to diplomats.
• Skilled diplomats can parley the avatars of the gods in the Pantheon.

 
Known issues

• The last hair selection for those races that received new hairstyle has an issue. Please try not to select this or you may see some funkiness with your avatar’s hair.

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Vanguard’s It Takes Two ? Winning Pictures

The "It Takes Two" contest winners have been announced and now we get to take a look at the winners over on Vanguard Players. Pop by for a look at the top three entries.

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SOE Is Now Twittering… Or Tweeting… Or Whatever

I think it’s actually called Tweeting when you are Twittering, but any way you shake it,SOE is doing it! Wowsers, they actually have Twitter pages set up for all of their games and many of their community team members. If you’re a Twitter user you can click the links below to add the folks or games that you want!

SOE games and the Official SOE Podcast are on Twitter!

Community Team members are on Twitter!

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Vangaurd Community News Updated

The Vanguard Devs like to keep us in the know, so be sure to give their latest community news feature a read. Included is Telon’s Next Top Model! Whee. Vote your favourite dungeon, Ask a Dev a question for May and more!

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Official SOE Podcast #62 Is Live

Official SOE Podcast #62 is live and ready to serve your podcasting needs! In this latest episode of the show they interview Candace Ivy, the Brand Manager for Free Realms. They also introduce a new Hamster (err), stump Brenlo and more. You can listen to the show here

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Bulletstorm’s Development Story Told Through Bugs

Epic subsidiary People Can Fly has put together what can only be described as an "outtake reel" of sorts for the recently-released Bulletstorm, showcasing all the weird, hilarious and slightly disturbing bugs that can arise when building and optimizing a triple-A title.

Like this biziarre gem:

Head over to the PCF blog for more.

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Unreal Engine 2.5 Alive and Well on Nintendo 3DS

It’s been seven years since Unreal Engine 2.5 made its debut with the release of Unreal Tournament 2004. Now the predecessor to Unreal Engine 3 has found new life in upcoming Ubisoft titles for the Nintendo 3DS, according toblog reportssourcing Ubisoft’s Fabrice Cuny.

The 3DS is powerful, and we are able to run the Unreal engine on this console, which is pretty impressive for a handheld machine, and the 3D doesn’t affect the performance (thanks to my amazing programmers). The architecture is different compared to a Wii or some other platforms that we had to work with here at Ubisoft Montreal.

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The Crucible UT3: v1.2 Released

Version 1.2 of popular UT3 mod The Crucible has been released, bringing a host of new weapons and maps, and moving the mod back to a mutator-based setup to allow compatibility with other mods.

Version 1.2 adds –

-9 new award winning weapons.
-Award winning characters including the Savior, Crusader, Skeleton Minion, Zombie, Hel and Gargoyle.
-8 new maps, including 2 Road Rage maps.
-Road Rage gametype adds maniacal vehicle combat.
-New movement system.
-Extensive new Gore system.
-New items replace the stock items.
-New HUD (in certain gametypes).
-Unlockable Dual Swords by using Hammer.
-Various settings, such as health regeneration, barrel actors, Un-desaturation, Move speed modifier and more.

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Coffee Stain to use UE3 for Upcoming Projects

Sweden-based Coffee Stain Studios joins the growing list of Unreal Engine 3 licensees. The mod team-turned developer has announced that it’s reached an agreement with Epic Games to use the tech exclusively for projects over the next five years.

Coffee Stain Studios, developer of "Sanctum," a game that blends first-person shooter and tower defense action, announces a long-term license agreement with Epic Games to use the award-winning Unreal Engine 3 (UE3) for its current and upcoming projects.

"Sanctum," which was first developed using the "Unreal Tournament 3" game modification toolset, won multiple awards in Epic’s $1 Million Intel Make Something Unreal Contest. Upon launch of Epic’s Unreal Development Kit (UDK), the free version of UE3, Coffee Stain Studios took "Sanctum" from a popular "Unreal Tournament 3" mod to a completely standalone game.

Over the course of its transition into a commercial UE3 licensee, Coffee Stain Studios has armed "Sanctum" with more fully featured gameplay and carnage than ever before. The game is poised for a beta release via Steam on March 24 and a full release on April 15.

"We’ve had our eye on this talented team since the early days of ‘Sanctum,’ and like previous Make Something Unreal winners, we are so pleased to see Coffee Stain Studios turn their game development dreams into a business," said Mark Rein, vice president of Epic Games. "We will continue to provide them with excellent tools and technology."

"Taking ‘Sanctum’ from a ‘UT3’ mod to a full source UE3 game has been a natural step for us, and Epic has been very helpful the whole way," said Anton Westbergh, co-founder and CEO, Coffee Stain Studios. "Using UE3 gives us the ability to work seamlessly across all disciplines using superior tools and support, and that beats out any other alternative."

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Warner Bros Licenses Unreal Engine 3 for More Titles

Warner Bros Interactive Entertainment has announced that it’s licensed Epic Games’ Unreal Engine tech for use studio-wide for the next three years. Warner published the critically-acclaimed (and UE3-powered) Batman: Arkham Asylum, and is due to release Arkham City later this year.

Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment today announced a long-term studio-wide license agreement with Epic Games to use the award-winning Unreal Engine 3.

The development software will be available for any team developing a Warner-published game across PC, console and mobile platforms and, through 2014, will be the exclusive game engine used on projects being developed by Rocksteady Studios who are currently working on Batman: Arkham City and developed the critically acclaimed hit Batman: Arkham Asylum for WBIE/DC Entertainment, and NetherRealm Studios, the team behind award-winning Mortal Kombat franchise for WBIE.

“Unreal Engine 3 is one of the leading development tools available for today’s creative teams and it is a perfect fit for both NetherRealm and Rocksteady,” said Samantha Ryan, Senior Vice President, Production and Development, Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment. “Mortal Kombat and Batman: Arkham City use the engine’s state-of-the-art capabilities to provide the important foundation in bringing gamers the experience they are looking for.”

“We’re very excited that the talented production teams at NetherRealm and Rocksteady will continue to make Unreal Engine 3 their exclusive core technology for the next few years to create the exceptional titles they are so known for,” said Mark Rein, Vice President, Epic Games. “We look forward to seeing how the engine will contribute to the upcoming games from these teams and potentially other Warner teams and external developers who develop or publish with Warner.”

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CTF-Gravis for UT3 Released

BeyondUnrealhas posted a new Unreal Tournament 3 CTF map from mapper Sjosz.

CTF-Gravis was originally due to be released as part of the fourth HOLP (High-Octane Low-Poly) map pack, but wasn’t finished in time. Regardless, the map looks excellent and has been receiving some great feedback over on BU’s forums

Built near one of the poles of a classified celestial body with the intent of studying various different aspects of gravitational energy, the Gravis research campus sat empty for years following political fallout over the bloated budget scope of the project. The facility would be used only 7 months every 2 years, due to extreme temperature shifts during a large part of the planetoid’s orbital cycle. Both to appease the opposition in the New Earth Government and as a means to offset project costs, small adjustments were made so the facility’s main hub could be locked off for highly lucrative tournament play.

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UDK March 2011 Beta Released

Today is a big day for Epic’s free Unreal Development Kit, as the March 2011 beta is released along with DirectX 11 rendering support, a new terrain rendering system and NVIDIA APEX support.

Important DirectX features now shipping with UDK include:
– Tessellation and displacement;
– Geometry shaders;
– Multisampled textures; and
– Shader Model 5.

High-end rendering features include:
– Image-based reflections that allow surfaces of any shape to reflect an approximate version of scenes, with varying glossiness across surfaces, anisotropic HDR highlights and anti-aliasing;
– Subsurface scattering (SSS) that simulates the light that scatters inside semi-translucent materials, making character skin come alive;
– Anti-aliased masked materials that super sample the edges of masked and alpha-tested materials, making character hair more look realistic than ever before;
– Deferred rendering with MSAA support;
– Bokeh depth of field providing close to film-quality DOF, with artist-controllable Bokeh; and
– High-quality dynamic shadows from many lights on the environment, such as shadows for point lights and other light sources.

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Unreal Engine ‘Samaritan’ Demo Video Released

You’ve seen the screenshots, now you can experience the full Unreal Engine 3 DirectX 11 GDC demo in all its HD glory, thanks to a 1080p direct-feed rip released on YouTube by Epic Games today.

The demo was powered by three high-end graphics cards running in a multi-GPU setup, so we won’t be seeing games with this kind of graphical fidelity anytime soon, however Epic says these are the kinds of visuals it expects next-gen consoles to bring…

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Runestorm Unveils Crucible and Ballistic Weapons Updates

Unreal modding teamRunestormhas unveiled updates to two mods -The Cruciblefor Unreal Tournament 3 andBallistic Weaponsfor UT2004.

To allow for compatibility with other mods and add-ons, Crucible 1.2 takes the form of a collection of mutators and gametypes rather than a total conversion, and includes the following changes:

-Original 8 MSUC winning Crucible weapons, plus the "Thor" Lightning Gun.
-All Crucible characters including the 1st place Savior, Skeleton
Minion, Crusader, Zombie, Gargoyle and Hel.
-Horrific, intense new gore system featuring per-character gibs, blood
pools, drag marks, surface splatters and disgusting new effects,
everything you need to paint the town red!
-New movement system allows greater freedom with abilities such as
sprinting, mantling, vaulting and the ‘Wings of Light’ powerup to give
players super leaping abilities.
-RoadRage gametype with over-the-top vehicle combat as seen in the
previous Crucible TC.
-New Health and Armor items.
-New HUD.
-6 new Deathmatch maps, and 1 RoadRage map.
-Various options and settings, such as spree based Health Regen and
Frag Health Bonus, Undesaturation, Move speed modifier and more.

The Ballistic Weapons 2.5 pack will take the form of a complete Ballistic Weapons and Runestorm pack, including all Ballistic and Runestorm content, as well as –

-X4 Knife, MD24 Pistol and XMk5 SubMachinegun
-M46 Jackal Combat Rifle
-BORT-85 Break Open Grenade Pistol
-A500 Reptile Skrith Acid Gun
-Quicker Iron-Sights.
-Force-to-Walk in Iron-Sights.
-New "Ballistic Regeneration" mutator for health regen and life steal.
-Removed "DoubleJump" limiter.
-Plenty of small fixes and tweaks that will hardly be noticed 😀

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Stunning DX11 Unreal Engine 3 Shots Released

Epic Games has released some stunning screenshots from an Unreal Engine technology demo shown to GDC attendees this week. The shots are taken from the "Samaritan" tech demo, which apparently took three high-end DirectX 11 graphics cards to run smoothly. The demo showcases advanced shader and lightning techniques including subsurface scattering and tessellation on both character models and environments.

Epic VP Mark Rein described the screenshots as the developer’s "love letter to hardware manufacturers", meaning that this is how Epic envisions graphics on the next generation of home consoles.

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Gameloft Partners with Epic for 4 New Unreal Engine Games

Mobile gaming giantGamelofthas announced that it’s partnered with Epic Games to develop four new Unreal Engine-powered titles over the next year. Two titles will launch on Android, iOS, PSN and set-top boxes in 2011, with another two following in 2012.

"Gameloft is very pleased to partner with Epic, especially with their ability to stay ahead of the curve and continually place the best game engine technology in developers’ hands at any given point in time," said Julien Fournials, vice president of production, Gameloft. "Using Unreal Engine 3 allows us to push game visuals with remarkable lighting and high-fidelity environments. We are confident that players will enjoy the games powered by Unreal Engine 3."

"There is no doubt that the four games running on Unreal Engine 3 will be visually stunning and take advantage of the powerful mobile gaming devices," said Mark Rein, vice president, Epic Games. "We are thrilled to provide our technology to Gameloft and look forward to a lasting collaboration."

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Epic Releases Infinity Blade "Deathless Kings" Update

Epic Games and Chair Entertainment have released a massive update for their popular hack-n-slashin’ iOS title Infinity Blade. To celebrate the new "Deathless Kings" add-on, Epic has reduced the price of Infinity Blade to just $2.99 from now until March 6.

Here’s a sample of the cool stuff in this latest update –

· Gain access to the all-new “Dungeon” game play environment.
· Players can battle and explore through six new game arenas, which nearly doubles the size of the game.
· Featuring The Deathless Kings, players will encounter ten new enemies, including the Wood Jester, the Iron Guard, the Plated Sorok, the Warden, and more.
· Fans will have the ability to continue building their character with NewGame+, which allows gamers to re-master any item, unlock new items in the store, and removes the level cap.
· Collect and master more than 30 all-new magic rings, swords, shields, helmets, and armor.
· Gain new achievements and compete on the leaderboards.
· Enjoy new gameplay enhancements and optimizations, including multiple character slots, dodge button size slider, and audio volume controls.

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Gameloft Partners with Epic to Develop 4 New UE3 Titles

Mobile game developer Gameloft has announced that it’s teamed up with Epic Games to create four new titles powered by Unreal Technology, with two being published in 2011 and another two in 2012.

"Gameloft is very pleased to partner with Epic, especially with their ability to stay ahead of the curve and continually place the best game engine technology in developers’ hands at any given point in time," said Julien Fournials, vice president of production, Gameloft. "Using Unreal Engine 3 allows us to push game visuals with remarkable lighting and high-fidelity environments. We are confident that players will enjoy the games powered by Unreal Engine 3."

"There is no doubt that the four games running on Unreal Engine 3 will be visually stunning and take advantage of the powerful mobile gaming devices," said Mark Rein, vice president, Epic Games. "We are thrilled to provide our technology to Gameloft and look forward to a lasting collaboration."

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UDK Royalty Threshold Increased to $50,000

Great news for UDK developers – Epic Games hasannouncedthat the royalty threshold for the Unreal Development Kit has been increased to $50,000 from the previous limit of $5,000. This means that indie developers using UDK to create commercial titles will have to part with less of their initial profits, allowing them to more easily grow their studios and reap the rewards of their hard work.

Epic VP Mark Rein posted his thoughts on the royalty changes on the official Epic forums…

We’re really excited about folks making some amazing things with UDK and we realize that a lot of you are just started in the business so not having to pay royalties on your first $50,000 should help you get a financial footing toward building a quality game development business.

One thing some folks didn’t seem to realize is that whether you sell your product through digital distribution (or a retail location) the company doing the sale to the end user (called the "retailer") takes a cut (typically around 30%) for their efforts. The price they sell it for is called the retail price. The amount of money they pay to you on each sale is called the wholesale amount. When you pay us royalties you pay on the wholesale amount, i.e. the money you actually receive.

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New Version of UEFT Chronicles Released

Here’s proof that almost seven years after the game’s release, the Unreal Tournament 2004 mod scene is still as vibrant as ever. The team behind UEFT Chronicles recently released a brand new version of their mod, adding a host of new changes including AI improvements, new weapons and maps…

Iterative Games would like to invite you to play the new release of UETF Chronicles, available starting today on Desura. It’s a completely rebuilt experience; I’ve added smarter enemies, remade player classes and roles, added customizable weapons & player abilities, and created 3 brand new custom maps for a better cooperative experience. I hope you’ll give this a try and also encourage your friends to join you for some great cooperative gaming.

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