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Mark Rein said a lot of nice things about the Wii U. He also mentioned that he has played Batman: Arkham City on the platform, and the game supposedly makes “fantastic use of the touch controller”. There was no further explanation beyond that (although the obvious usage would relate to the gadgets that Batman has at his disposal), but it was confirmed the game will not be a straight port of the other versions. As to what this means specifically, it’s hard to say, but Rocksteady seems to be taking this version of the game seriously, and that’s great to see.

Mark Rein of Epic Games has shared that, while he would have loved if Nintendo had released the Wii U last year, he would be “shocked” if it didn’t do well, and that in regards to the system, he believes E3 will “be a big eye-opener for people”, and that is something we’ve also heard from Yoshinori Ono of Capcom.

Rein also mentioned he has played Batman: Arkham City on the Wii U and, apparently, the developers “are doing some really cool stuff with the controller”. He also offered praise for the Zelda HD tech demo:

Do you remember the Zelda demo they had on it? Would you not buy a Wii U just to play that? Of course you would. That’s what Nintendo is all about. Their hardware is the software delivery service for their great content. That Zelda demo was gorgeous and we can do even more than that with Unreal Engine 3. I think it will do great.

All we can do now is hope this translates into support for the platform from Epic Games themselves, while also hopefully adding weight to the rumours that Unreal Engine 4 is running on the dev kits.

(via mynintendonews.com)

Unreal Engine 4 is the next game development engine from Epic Games. According to Mark Rein, the CEO of the company that develops it (along with the previous incarnations which have been the back-end for hundreds of games), people will be “shocked” when they see it later this year. Only a few developers have seen it these past few days at GDC 2012. But we have some (potentially) good news:

It might be coming to Wii U.

The rumour begins on NeoGAF, where a user has stated that their friend has a source whose a developer within a company that does work “on pretty much every system”. And according to them, Epic has Unreal Engine 4 running on the hardware, with Nintendo specifically tweaking the hardware to make it happen.

The main thing that separates this from other rumours we’ve heard is that it makes sense. Nintendo doesn’t want a repeat of the Wii in regards to third party support. If they can support Unreal Engine 4, which will surely be one of the biggest engines for the next generation of gaming, then it will only serve them down the line as more developers are able to bring their games to the platform. But maybe that’s just me justifying the rumour because I want it to be true. We’ll have to wait and see.

You can check after the break to see the latest demo for Unreal Engine 3, codenamed “Samaritan”, that Mark Rein has implied will look like “crap” once Unreal Engine 4 is shown off. If you watch the video, you’ll see how exciting that is, and how brilliant it would be for the next engine to arrive on the Wii U.

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