{"id":4779,"date":"2009-11-06T12:33:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-06T10:33:00","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"-0001-11-30T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"-0001-11-29T22:00:00","slug":"unreal-engine-dev-kit-available-for-free","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/business\/4779-unreal-engine-dev-kit-available-for-free","title":{"rendered":"Unreal Engine dev kit available for free"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Epic Games, the studio responsible for the Gears of War and Unreal franchises, yesterday released its Unreal Engine 3 dev kit as a free download, aimed at offering prospective developers a chance to better understand the system which powers its PC, PS3 and Xbox 360 titles.<\/p>\n<p>The 563MB Unreal Development Kit, which can be found on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.fileshack.com\/file.x\/15628\/Unreal+Development+Kit\" target=\"_blank\">Fileshack<\/a>, features a number of Unreal Tournament 3 assets as well as two UDK sample games (Whizzle and The Ball) to get users started.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;I&#8217;m excited about the possibilities the Unreal Development Kit opens to those who are looking to get into the game business but don&#8217;t otherwise have the means to acquire world-class technology and tools like ours,&#8221; said Epic VP Mark Rein. &#8220;UDK is Unreal Engine 3, which has been used to create games in a wide range of genres, as well as military simulations, 3D architectural walkthroughs, animated movies and more.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Currently the Unreal dev kit only offers support for PC although PlayStation 3 and Xbox 360 support is &ldquo;under consideration&rdquo;. According to Epic the kit features &ldquo;&#8221;features and technological enhancements&#8230;that have yet to be seen in an Unreal Engine game,&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Among the titles powered by the Unreal engine are Gears of War 2, Unreal Tournament 3, Borderlands, Batman: Arkham Asylum and Shadow Complex.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mygaming.co.za\/forum\/showthread.php?p=139531#post139531\" target=\"_self\">Discuss the Unreal Engine dev kit <\/a>in the forums<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Prospective developers can now download Epic Games development kit for free<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":161,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_sma_x_autopost_status":"idle","_sma_x_autopost_error":"","_sma_x_post_id":"","_sma_facebook_post_id":"","_sma_instagram_post_id":"","_sma_x_attempts":0,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4779","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-business"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/161"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4779"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4779\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4779"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4779"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mygaming.co.za\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4779"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}