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All Points Bulletin podcast #12 delivers community Q&A

by Kyle Horner Oct 16th 2009 at 1:00PM

Filed under: Video, New titles, News items, All Points Bulletin

All Points Bulletin's 12th video podcast sees the conclusion of the Mark Rein walkthrough and an informative Q&A with the game's design lead, EJ Moreland. Some of the questions are things we already knew but bore repeating, like that the game is going to be PC only for its first release.

There's new information in there, too. Like the fact that a car you design cannot be stolen from you while driving it, unlike a car you steal from a pedestrian. There's also talk about player and clan housing as future additions to the game.

We think the video podcasts are a great way to clear the air of any misconceptions while simultaneously giving the community a chance to meet the people designing the game they so very much want to play. So hopefully we'll be seeing more of these in the coming weeks leading up to wider beta and eventually, launch.

Check out the video after the break.

Tags: all-points-bulletin, apb, clan-housing, ea-partners, ej-moreland, guild-housing, mark-rein, player-housing, podcast, realtime-worlds, video-podcast

All Points Bulletin video podcast a first look at gameplay

by James Egan Sep 14th 2009 at 4:00PM

Filed under: Podcasts, Video, New titles, All Points Bulletin, Crime

It's no secret that some of us at Massively are looking forward to playing All Points Bulletin, an urban crime title on the way from Realtime Worlds. We learned a bit more about the game at PAX 2009 but we're always hoping to find out more. Fortunately, the company released a new video podcast today filmed at GamesCom 2009 in Cologne that many of our readers have been waiting for -- one with actual gameplay.

The series of videos released prior to this focused on the extensive customization options All Points Bulletin will offer. Although we see quite a bit of gameface from the audience in this latest video podcast, we also see a bit more of that attention to detail emphasized in the previous video footage playing out in the mean streets of the waterfront district. Among other things, the footage shows some very detailed gun animations w. shell ejects and, unsurprisingly, a lot of polish on the look of the vehicles. The user interface is also rather unobtrusive, particularly with the clear compass to guide players.

Interested in checking it out? We've got an HD video embed of APB Video Podcast 9: Viva Cologne for you after the jump.

Tags: all-points-bulletin, apb, chris-collins, crime, gamescom-2009, mark-rein, new-titles, pax-2009, podcasts, realtime-worlds, urban-crime, video, video-podcast

PAX 2009: Massively's first look at gameplay in All Points Bulletin

by Kyle Horner Sep 7th 2009 at 4:00PM

Filed under: New titles, News items, All Points Bulletin, Massively Event Coverage

All Points Bulletin was representing at PAX and while the game wasn't playable I did manage to see a very cool PAX-only gameplay video presentation. Epic Games' Mark Rein and Realtime Worlds' community officer Chris Collins – you know, that dashing gentlemen in all those cool video podcasts – played a bunch of the game and edited it into a nicely narrated sample of what playing the game is like.

What I ended up seeing was a game that by all accounts looks very ready for launch, so I wasn't surprised to be told beta was "a few weeks" away and not months. And while that date is still a little ways off, most other attendees who saw the video seemed to agree that launch day couldn't come soon enough.

Tags: all-points-bulletin, apb, chris-collins, ea, ea-partners, electronic-arts, featured, mark-rein, pax, pax-2009, realtime-worlds

PAX 2009: Massively's first look at gameplay in All Points Bulletin part 2

by Kyle Horner Sep 7th 2009 at 4:00PM

Filed under: New titles, News items, All Points Bulletin, Massively Event Coverage

Tags: all-points-bulletin, apb, chris-collins, ea, ea-partners, electronic-arts, epic-games, mark-rein, pax, pax-2009, realtime-worlds, unreal-engine-3

Hey, look, another Korean developer licenses Unreal Engine 3

by Samuel Axon Jun 17th 2008 at 8:00PM

Filed under: Sci-fi, MMO industry, New titles, News items

Epic Games is apparently doing a good job selling and supporting its Unreal Engine 3 in the Korean market. Yet another developer has licensed the engine for an MMO project. This time it's T-Entertainment, which is working on a "space opera" MMO called L2. Wow, that sounds like the name of another Korean MMO!

Welcome to the club, T-Entertainment! Meet AcroGames and Bluehole; they're also Korean developers using Unreal Engine 3. Oh, and of course you know about Webzen's Huxley, which is built on Unreal Engine 3. Yes, also Korean. Let's not forget the illustrious NCsoft, which already used the previous version of Unreal for Lineage II, and plans to use version 3 for not one but two new projects.

There was an interview with Epic Games' Mark Rein at Gamasutra several months back. He said that Epic is working hard to propagate Unreal Engine 3 in Korea, but described serious challenges -- particularly with customer support. It looks like Epic is finding ways to deal with those challenges after all.

[Via Worlds in Motion]

Tags: acrogames, bluehole, epic-games, gamasutra, huxley, interview, l2, lineage-2, lineage-ii, mark-rein, ncsoft, t-entertainment, ue3, unreal, unreal-engine, unreal-engine-3, unreal-engine-3.0, webzen, worlds-in-motion

AcroGames using Unreal Engine in new online game

by Samuel Axon Nov 29th 2007 at 6:30PM

Filed under: MMO industry, News items

AcroGames, an upstart Korean game development company, has licensed Epic's Unreal Engine 3 for a new game. Epic told Gamasutra that the new game is an online title for the PC. There are lots of different kinds of online titles, but AcroGames is partly comprised of former Lineage II team members, so it's a good, educated guess to suggest that the new title is an MMO. Also, Lineage II was developed using the previous Unreal Engine iteration.

Epic VP Jay Wilbur was quoted in Gamasutra, saying: "AcroGames is a promising team comprised of top talent and we look forward to working with them. We are committed to supporting the Asian game market with best of breed development tools, and our agreement with AcroGames marks a significant achievement in this effort."

In an interview published just yesterday, Epic's Mark Rein described the language-barrier-related challenges Epic is having with supporting its engine in non-English speaking countries (specifically Japan, in that article). One wonders if they'll run into the same troubles when working with a Korean studio.

Tags: acrogames, epic, epic-games, gamasutra, graphics-engine, jay-wilbur, license, lineage-2, lineage-ii, mark-rein, new-game, new-title, unreal-engine, unreal-engine-3