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Zombie Studios making 'thriller' with Unreal 4

Blacklight developer creating PC "psychological thriller" due in 2013 running on Epic Games' next-generation game engine.

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Blacklight: Tango Down and Blacklight: Retribution developer Zombie Studios is the second publicly known licensee for Unreal Engine 4. The company today announced that it is licensing Epic Games' next-generation game engine to power a new PC "psychological thriller" due for release during the second quarter of 2013 (April-June).

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No further details on the project are available.

Zombie Studios follows Final Fantasy and Tomb Raider publisher Square Enix in signing a deal with Epic Games to license Unreal Engine 4. That deal was described as "long-term" and "sweeping," noting it will span multiple games from Square Enix.

Epic Games' own Fortnite was the first game to be confirmed to run on Unreal Engine 4. It is due out sometime in 2013 exclusively for the PC.

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I like psychological thrillers. If they release a name, I can tag it on Gamespot so I don't forget.

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Thriller? Psychological? AND PC only? It truly is christmas!

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The PC is getting the best "psychological thrillers" the way its looking... Need to start upgrading mine, it's gonna be awhile before I see an Alan Wake-esque game on a 360 again

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2013 Q2. Hmmm.. must have been in development for a while then. Interesting...

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The way the article was wrote, I thought they are gonna make "Thriller" video of MJ with UE 4.

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no more 2023 dubstep... AAWWW

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More different please.

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I wonder how my GTX 680 will handle Unreal 4. I don't want to upgrade for at least another year.

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i dont understand is why Square Enix made Luminous Engine if they signed a "long term" deal with UE4.

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@pezzott1 Square Enix has many studios, they could give it to the smaller studios to make low budget/mobile games like what they are doing with Unreal 3 right now.

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@pezzott1 because just the demo for Luminous Engine took ~6 months or so to complete?

While UE4 is heck of a lot easier to work with...

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Probably another open-world zombie MMO that'll eventually turn into mindless PVP.

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@Mr_BillGates According to early rumors it's not F2P title . It's single player game but nothing is official yet .

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As good as those words sound I know it is nothing but a big old nasty let-down, since the 'thrill' will be nothing more inspiring than a zombie on-rail shooting gallery and the 'psychological' elements will be nothing but head games with ambiguous product claims, or worse, cliched and nauseating social themes! Either way I don't put it past anyone that boasts the Unreal-ANYTHING to rate above the putrid depths of 'M.'

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I don't think "Zombie" ever made a good game.

BL:R is awful, one of the worst shooters I've played and really a poor man's Call of Duty, which is funny because up until playing BL:R, I thought CoD was poor man's CoD.

Not expecting anything decent with this one.

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Dang PC gaming is getting the stuff 2013

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Gonna have to upgrade my graphics card for these games to look their best.

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Most Zombie games are the same =/

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@Harrydapro It's not a survival horror game . It's phsychological thriller just like ALAN WAKE .

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I feel bad for all the Wii U fans who bought an outdated console and now will miss out on the benefits of next gen. Oh and Yes Nintendo Fan boys graphics are very important :)

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@SurlyPotato Well if they bought one that doesn't necessarily mean they will miss out as they can still buy a XBOX720 and PS4 like the rest of us. :)

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When I saw "Zombie" and "thriller" in the same sentence I immediately thought they were remaking Michael Jackson's music video in UDK.

I guess I can settle for a horror game.

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bring on next gen graphics.

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U4 More buggy Than U3 I see this alredy :DDDD

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The headline made me think this was a recreation of the famous Michael Jackson video in UE4. Color me disappointed.

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Epic seriously should revive UT. UT04 and 3 were and still are awesome games, but a brand new arena type game would be sweet. Nexuiz gets pretty close, but there just doesn't seem to be any players and there's just something missing.

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@Stebsis A new Unreal Tournament with mod support on the pc would rule the world!

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Looks like EPIC is doing well so far getting their engine out.

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For a second there I thought we were getting another Unreal game, woooh bed time for me then.

I sure as hell miss the Unreal series though (especially Unreal Tournament)...

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Hopefully just maybe it'll set crapcom in its place and show 'em what they've been doing wrong since the old Resident Evil games.

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For a second I thought this said Unreal 4/ UT 4 and I got excited... then I read the rest of the title. ;__;

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We will have to wait for the Xbox 720 or PS4 to handle these type of graphics.

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@SurlyPotato no, these kinds of PC graphics will probably not even be possible on the generation AFTER 720 ps4 if any more console generations happen. Tablets and mobile phone games will kill the games console off. PCs that plug into TVs will be the future of proper games while all the leftover shit is on tablets.

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@SurlyPotato The game is for the PC. So a 560ti and up will do just fine.

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@ssj2los Obviously... hence why I was speaking of yet to be released consoles...

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I was hoping for a UE4 Blacklight sequel on Next-Gen Consoles and PC.

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We want " UNREAL TOURNAMENT......FOUR.......:"

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Anyone else read the title and think "They're using a game engine to remake the Thriller music video?!?! WTH?"

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@Kage52124 I thought it was going to be a game set in the Thriller universe

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UT 4 maybe ? :P

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