Forget in-house tech! Square Enix is having Final Fantasy VII Remake made with the Unreal Engine 4. So, there you go. Unreal Engine 4. Square Enix. FFVII.

"[Virtual Reality] is a technology that I think will completely change the world. I think it's going to be a bigger phenomenon than smartphones." Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney to Polygon, in an interview about the future of VR, the Unreal Engine, and game development in general. Read it in its entirety here.

Here's a neat new trick. You can run the Unreal Engine 3 real-time tech demo Epic Citadel in a web browser. Get a "Nightly" version of Firefox. Then go here. This HTML5 FAQ explains more. How high can you get the framerate?

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