A number of ex-Midway employees, when asked about the publisher's downward spiral, had a variety of answers, but almost all of them mentioned Unreal Engine 3, the technology licensed from Epic Games that powers Gears of War.
"One issue popped up again and again: Midway's decision to license Unreal Engine and use it for ALL its games," wrote Variety's Ben Fritz of his interviews with former Midway staffers.
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Filing a false DMCA claim costs nothing, requires no proof, and can destroy an indie game's launch in minutes. Fighting back can cost tens of thousands of dollars and take weeks (if you can afford it at all).
Copyright is copyright. DMCA is a good thing that protects creators IP., revenue and usage. and you can absolutely appeal a wrongful DMCA takedown. It’s happened to me. Was easily resolved.
it's a good thing, but it's also long been reported, across a variety of industries and websites, that currently the system is ripe for and full of abuses. From fair use strikes, to matters like the one reported in this article. It's clear the law needs some tooth to punish bad actors and that parameters need to be set in how reports are filed; ie human review of said content and not some AI bot false flagging stuff. As is the system is far to easily abused by those who have motive to suppress and flag content they have no business or right to.
No system will ever be perfect, but there needs to be a review, unless it blatant.
Until there's genuine consequences for this type of abuse, it'll keep happening across all media. DMCA is in principle a good thing, but it needs an overhaul.
The Montreal-based team behind March of Giants joins Ubisoft to continue development on the free-to-play 4v4 MOBA game where players take on the role of giant combatants.
This is an interesting article, since a lot of devs seem to be using UE3 nowadays and a lot of them swear by it. I'm curious why devs still license it despite the issues. Perhaps the availability supersedes the convenience.
I don't think there's anythig wrong with UE3. That's not even what they're trying to say with this article. What they're saying is that it's not right for every game ever. MK vs. DCU is a good example of a game that the people who designed UE3 just didn't have in mind. UE3 is great at what it does, but it's not the ultimate solution for all your game design needs. One would think Midway would have realized that. I only wonder how they managed to stay afloat all these years. Is the MK license really that valuable?
I wonder why it seems that gears of war looks so much better than all other games using the unreal engine???
UE3 engine is junk! It is only applicable to one system and seeing every dev under gods green earth support it almost speaks volumes for their thoughts on Sony's ps3. A system with major known compatibility issues, even after Sony worked with epic on UT3 it still didn't run right.
The engine should've been a proprietary engine for the xbox 360. Nuff said... Microsoft should buy it. Oh, wait... they kinda bought 3rd party this gen so I guess it doesn't matter.
built with that unreal engine. Your opinion really is way off! Most of the games that were created with it on the 360 suck. Thats not saying so much for the 360, touted as the easier console to program for. The ps3 version of unreal was the best game ever made with the unreal engine this gen and it was on the ps3!!!!!!