Hasta La Gadget!

A Holy Grail of Linux gaming has been an Unreal Engine 3 port. Getting one for the OS would unlock a world of games that has been the province of, well, just about any other mainstream platform. Thanks to Google preserving Flash on Linux through Chrome, that dream is alive in at least a rudimentary form. Experimenters at the Phoronix forums have found that Chrome 21 has support for the Stage 3D hardware acceleration needed to drive Epic Games’ Flash conversion of UE3. Tell Chrome to enable support as well as ignore a graphics chip blacklist, and suddenly you’re running Epic Citadel from your Linux install. When we say “running,” however, we’re taking a slight amount of poetic license. Performance isn’t that hot, and certain configurations might not show the medieval architecture in all its glory. We’ve confirmed with Epic that it works, but it’s still firm on the stance that there’s no plans for official UE3 support on Linux “at this time.” It’s still promising enough that maybe, just maybe, gamers can embrace an open-source platform without having to give up the games they love.

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French video game developer and publisher Gameloft has unveiled its next project via its Facebook page. And judging from the looks of it, it seems that the big time game developer is onto something big. Gameloft is teasing its first game ever built from Unreal Engine. If that sounds foreign to you, Unreal Engine is actually a game engine that offers a high degree of portability and is a tool used by many game developers today.

Unfortunately, except for the image that Gameloft unwrapped today (the one above) and the caption that says, “The story of Gameloft’s 1st Unreal Game will soon be revealed”, the details are quite bleak. Also, Gameloft says that the image above has a hidden hint that needs to be unlocked. Perhaps, you can unlock it. You can also vote to unlock the teaser trailer via YouTube. Whatever Gameloft has in store for us, let’s hope it’s going to be huge.

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