Epic Acquires Rad Game Tools, Creators of Oodle Compression Technology

It will be super cool of epic released that ps5 unreal 5 demo on psn 😃

@wiiware You can download it on PC with an EGS dev account

Arguably the most versatile engine on the market continues to improve, this is great. Sony Bend’s use of Unreal Engine 4 on Days Gone was very impressive and the tech demo for 5 has me pretty darn excited for what we may see in the sequel. Fully rendered hordes as far as the eye can see? Yes, please.

And, nobody is concerned about Tencent further consolidating the industry.....?

@NEStalgia You're on the wrong website for overarching impactful things like that. You need to hit up PC websites for worry about the future of gaming. This is console town, where all that matters is what <hardware maker's marketing division> tell you.

@NEStalgia China is further consolidating the entire world economy on a daily basis. The wheels turning here are much larger than Unreal Engine, so a realistic balance unfortunately has to be found. I’m a much bigger supporter of proprietary I.P, but at the end of the day, this specifically is pretty harmless, especially when it allows immediate access for 3rd party’s to effective tools to realize their visions. As long as censorship and politics are kept out of licensing agreements, I’m happy. To take a hard stance here, you’d be giving up a lot of what makes up your everyday. That’s just my opinion of course. Cheers!

@Menchi that’s a bit offensive, isn’t it? I’m sure there are many cultured, intellectual people here and this pretentious approach just ensures that they will never engage you. With all due respect, if you’re always the smartest man in the room, you will never learn anything.

@Jimmer-jammer On the narrow scale, in this corner of the internet we can only really focus on the effects of such thing on this particular industry. On a broader scale, that's a crisis of unimaginable proportions and needs to be shouted from every rooftop, every minute, of every day, in what is guaranteed to become one of the, if not the, darkest chapters in human history, as we barrel toward the inevitability of WW3 at best, and complete breakdown at worst, regardless how fast or slow it happens. Considering we get here in about 20 years, I expect either outcome happens in our lifetimes because the steady progression of the status quo isn't going to last forever at present pace in that regard. As more and more of the human race is rendered obsolete, redundant, and unnecessary in this consolidation, I envision a global scale of the Children's Crusade will be starting in the not so distant future.

But in this little corner...all we can focus on is the effect on gaming and the business, and consumer experience within. I don't believe most consumers understand just how completely China has literally bought every aspect of Earth, legally, over merely 20 years, and how it affects everything in their life from employment to recreation. At least in this arena, we have the ability to keep awareness visible in conversation.

All that said, @Menchi isn't necessarily wrong. Yeah, he's a PC elitist who loves kind of smugly trolling about it as much as possible...but it doesn't necessarily invalidate his points. The console space has developed into more of an arena of "good little consumers" and the PC space has...well...flat out anarchists as a primary demographic still, for better or worse. Can't say I can join in with either camp wholly. And certainly there are some amount of people who can participate in reasoned discussion in the console space, but the majority populations in the console spaces tend to have an odd association between a corporate brand with their own identity and will defend that identity to the death from the evil other corporate brands from which no good can come.

Hey, as big as new consoles are to gaming, they only paint half a picture. Unreal 4 will only rend what unreal 4 will rend. I'm so excited to see the unleashing of the Unreal 5 engine! THAT is what's going to take full advantage of this new hardware, and bring the big visual leap we're all keen to see. Can't wait!

@NEStalgia now that I understand the level playing field we’re on here, I won’t argue any of the points you’ve made. My acceptance of the status quo due to our utter powerlessness in this regard is not more valuable than, and shouldn’t take away from your right (need) to bring awareness to these pertinent issues. They can’t disappear from the conversation.
It was wrong of me to flippantly dismiss your comment, as your reply to me shows a much deeper understanding of the issues than I initially thought. I quickly reacted to the double whammy of yours and @Menshi comments without taking pause.
You’ve helped me better understand his perspective and humour as well, elitist attitude intact, so for that I thank you.
And if it wasn’t already apparent, I am very concerned, just trying to move forward in life in a realistic way, though all change starts small and I should be supporting this type of awareness.

@Jimmer-jammer I will concede that thanks to the run up and launch of new consoles and fake gaming news, the incompetent shill media and fanboy frenzy that has accompanied them I've lost patience for many console people/places, or at least the ignorant and the fanboys. Which is typically why my points come across as blunt and harsh. @NEStalgia broke it down better so I thank him for that.

I am glad that someone actually had a brain and thought "hey maybe making Tencent the Disney of PC gaming tech is a bad thing" instead of the usual "A WIN FOR SONY WOOOOOO". It's not the kind of thing I expect from console sites.

@Menchi I mostly agree with you and have adjusted my position appropriately. In hindsight, I was the pretentious one in that I undervalued what you two were actually bringing to the table.
Truthfully, I’m fairly new to the social side of the internet as I‘ve always taken a hard, dogmatic stance against engaging social media (within reason). PushSquare has been a trail breaking foray into harmlessly sharing my feelings about a medium I’m passionate about with like minded folks and my over eagerness to not be a jaded, grumpy bugger about it all probably comes off a little strong.
Anyway, I’m glad we can understand each other a little better. Cheers!