Epic working on "new unannounced IP"

By Fred Dutton Published 5 August, 2011

Recruitment call reveals new project.

Gears of War developer Epic is in development on a "new unannounced IP", according to a recent job listing.

As spotted by French site Xboxygen, a recruitment call on its website states, "Epic Games is looking for Gameplay Programmers to join the team currently working on Gears of War 3, as well as a new unannounced IP in development."

The studio currently has no announced projects past Gears of War 3, which is due to ship for Xbox 360 on 20th September.

In recent months it has hinted at a possible return to both Gears and its Unreal franchise at some point in the future.

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Comments (12) Latest comment 10 months ago

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  • Subdominator #1 10 months ago

    I said it before and I'll say it again: The Samaritan demo showed scenes of the next IP. Just like every Unreal tech demo showed something from their next series. But it will probably not be a current gen title. I just found out today that Gears of War started as an Xbox project back in 2002.

  • RodHull #2 10 months ago

    Epic Pinball 2012.

  • chessboxer #3 10 months ago

    I was hoping that Epic would finally make Unreal 3 but this probably won't happen now. I enjoyed playing the original Unreal and Unreal II: The Awakening was a good game.

  • Subdominator #4 10 months ago

    Yeah, but: Epic had nothing to do with the actual level design of Unreal and Unreal 2. :D Digital Extremes made Unreal and Legend made Unreal 2. Back then Epic only created the engine.

  • Tyronne #5 10 months ago

    hmm with this story and the one a few weeks back about how they would like to return to unreal...would it be a good idea to take a stab in the dark?

  • Jmog #6 10 months ago

    Guys, read the article. "New IP" means it can't be Unreal or Gears.

  • Bullet_Tunnel #7 10 months ago

    The new game will be a kinect fitness, your avatar will be a fully rendered cliffy b, using the latest unreal(tm) tech, you get to stare at cliffy mimicing your movements, with hd overbite. As you progress, cliffy will buff up, mainly in the neck area, until the avatar is a fully imagined cliffy b leatherneck space soldier buffed muscle mess. once buff enough you get to go on missions where you beat up/grapple with similar huge necked humanoids.getting fit and living the B-meisters homoerotic fantasy dreams.

  • TaniumZX #8 10 months ago

    Subdominator: keep on saying it, nobody is listening lol

  • Pirotic #9 10 months ago

    My money is still on big steroid addicted men running about with guns, they didn't spend all that money on building the Unreal tech for gardening simulators.

  • P1GEONPOO #10 10 months ago

    Unreal of War Storm- heard it here first.

  • darth_paul #11 10 months ago

    maybe thats the promised exclusive IP that sony was saying Epic had promised them, like, 2-3 years ago... haha :-)

  • Lin #12 10 months ago

    Perhaps they'll stun the world with a slick console shooter about a strong & silent space marine.