Studiourile Epic Games au anunţat că în cadrul Game Developers Conference vor avea un demo real-time ce va prezenta noile tehnologii incluse în Unreal Engine 3, printre care şi suportul pentru DirectX 11.

"Mulţumită tehnologiilor cross-platform NVIDIA şi a experienţei cu DirectX 11, am îmbunătăţit Unreal Engine 3 pentru a ajunge la noi niveluri de realism şi putem demonstra cum vor arăta jocurile din noua generaţie", a declarat Mark Rein, vicepreşedintele Epic Games.

De asemenea, versiunea gratuită de Unreal Engine 3 - Unreal Development Kit - va beneficia şi ea de aceste îmbunătăţiri.

SAN FRANCISCO, CA -- (Marketwire) -- 03/01/2011 -- GDC 2011 -- NVIDIA and Epic Games are teaming up at this week's Game Developers Conference to showcase the latest advances in the world's most popular game engine, Unreal Engine 3, which now offers even greater levels of interactivity and immersion.

Unreal Engine 3 -- which supports multiple platforms, including consoles, mobile devices, desktops and notebook PCs -- now features DX11 capabilities, including tessellation, plus support for NVIDIA® PhysX®, APEX, and NVIDIA 3D Vision™ technologies. As the winner of five Game Developer magazine Front Line Awards, it remains the most popular game engine in the world for those designing the most compelling and interactive 3D games.

The new Unreal Engine 3 real-time demo, being shown during GDC exclusively in Epic's booth (Business Suite #400, South Hall), was developed using NVIDIA's GeForce® GTX 500 Series GPUs. It represents Epic's proposal for what the next generation of gaming will look like and sets a new bar for what can be accomplished with Epic's Unreal Engine 3 technology. It also showcases the myriad benefits that DX11 brings to gaming, including complex environments and detailed character models with lifelike movement and animations. The demo is further enhanced by the Epic's collaboration with NVIDIA and use of NVIDIA's PhysX and APEX technologies, including destruction and clothing modules, which enable realistic character interactions with the environment.

"Thanks to NVIDIA's excellent cross-platform physics technologies and DX11 expertise, we have enhanced Unreal Engine 3 to bring unprecedented new levels of realism and demonstrate what the next generation of gaming will be," said Mark Rein, vice president of Epic Games.

"Unreal Engine 3 continues to amaze us and represents a generational leap in gaming," said Drew Henry, general manager of GPU business at NVIDIA. "With the addition of our PhysX, APEX and 3D Vision technologies, it will deliver unprecedented, high-end visual experiences for gamers. We can't wait to play the games that Unreal Engine 3 will power in the future."

Epic's popular Unreal Development Kit (UDK), the free version of Unreal Engine 3, will also benefit from these latest additions, providing users with a theater-quality 3D gaming development platform.