Epic Games working on five new titles

By Robert Purchese Published 16 August, 2011

Not Gears of War-related, says Capps.

Epic Games is working on five new games that have nothing to do with Gears of War, president Mike Capps has revealed.

Each of the games are in varying stages of development.

"It's nice to target the PC as a primary platform again," teased Capps, "not just for ports."

The revelation was made during a presentation at Gamescom in Germany today. Responding to an audience question, Capps suggested these five titles maybe smaller in scope than, say, the Gears of War projects.

"At Epic we didn't multiply the studio size by five when we started workig on these multiple projects," answered Capps, "so you can make some assumptions about the size of those projects".

Capps went on to suggest that companies need smaller-sized projects to counter-balance the big-bucks, high-stakes blockbusters.

"Everyone knows the middle class is disappearing from the console business," he said. "Gears of War I hope will do really well, but a pretty good game doesn't make its money back any more. A game like Homefront sells a couple of million copies and they close the studio, right?

"That's not enough any more. That's pretty depressing. You don't want to see what happens to an industry where it's Call of Duty, Halo and Gears and no-one else has enough money to make any games any more. That's not a fun industry.

"I can't bet my entire company every time I make a game," declared Capps. "That's a really dangerous business."

GamesIndustry.biz reporter Dan Pearson attended the speech.

Epic Games-owned studio Chair has already promised to make Shadow Complex 2. That Chair will also follow-up its success with Infinity Blade on iOS devices is also probable.

Infinity Blade - an Epic success on iOS.

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Comments (21) Latest comment 9 months ago

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  • Timotei #1 9 months ago

    "It's nice to target the PC as a primary platform again"

    \0/

  • Paul_cz #2 9 months ago

    Well finally good news. GoW is tiring.

  • Segnit #3 9 months ago

    5 - 4 kinect games = 1 awesome high end PC game?

    Yes please.

  • Freek #4 9 months ago

    So that'll be Unreal Tournament then, Shadow Complex and Infinity Blade sequels, what ever that tech demo was with the smoking trenchcoat guy and something else...probably something for the next Xbox.

    Now if I was an analyst I'd actually get paid for blatent speculation like that.

  • Ultrasoundwave #5 9 months ago

    I may be alone in saying this, but i believe Bulletstorm deserves a sequel. It was an over-the-top, original shooter which was great fun while it lasted.
    I would personally snap Bulletstorm 2 up on day one...

  • mickey2002 #6 9 months ago

    @7 Same. However BulletStorm was NOT Profitable so can't see it happening.

  • Belmonth #7 9 months ago

    about Bulletstorm: maybe they think it will get better sales once ppl see it as a franchize. Also maybe they want to put real multiplayer , not just to show who has the higher score on the AI. But prolly not...
    I think the reason they said about PC is cause they go for something with free2play...seems its the only way devs/publishers see PC as leading platform these days.

  • HL706 #8 9 months ago

    I loved Bulletstorm for about 3 days and never played it again :-/

  • Belmonth #9 9 months ago

    lol and for how long u wanted to play it? its a FPS with an 7-8h campaign , with kinda irelevant multiplayer. 1-2 days and it served its purpose.

  • Armoured_Gideon #10 9 months ago

    Where is the Gears of War 3 preview? Every other site seems to have theirs up. Have I missed it?

  • GiarcYekrub #11 9 months ago

    Bulletstorm 2 please

  • Mr_Wizard #12 9 months ago

    I hope one of them's a true sequel to Unreal, exploring the universe they'd created for that. With all the temples and gods it features they must have written a decent mythos bible for it. More Nali please!

    No, Unreal II doesn't count.

  • Skooch #13 9 months ago

    I played Bulletstorm and enjoyed it, but no sequel for me please. It had some good combos and weapons but it was also extremely linear, had ridiculous dialogue, lack of story and felt repetitive - it also gave me slight motion sickness.

  • Zombie-Hamster #14 9 months ago

    Well whatever they're making, isn't it nice to see a big and very successful company trying to keep things fresh and interesting? And maybe (hopefully!) taking one or two risks too (although I appreciate they're doing this to avoid continually putting all their eggs in one basket).

    Can't see Activision taking a similar approach...

  • Inmediasress #15 9 months ago

    "It's nice to target the PC as a primary platform again" (they forgot to ad a heavy sarcasm filter to this one)
    "At Epic we didn't multiply the studio size by five when we started workig on these multiple projects," answered Capps, "

    These two statements make it pretty much obvious that whatever it is going to be it will be shit.
    Maybe some episodic nonsense or some pay to win shit.

    Oh and I find it really funny that we arrived at a point in the game industry where they can freely announce that they will be making quick cash grabs and get away with it.
    Edited by Inmediasress at 16/08/11 @ 13:40

  • aphex187 #16 9 months ago

    That's great news for PC gamers!

  • xuiton #17 9 months ago

    they make a good point. Selling a million copies of a game used to be a big success, unless your game cost less than one million to make, that is nothing.

    I blame it all on money going into gfx, voice acting and cut scenes.

    Voice actors have to be paid a set rate in the US of around 100,000 a year, so if you got multiple actors, it is going to cost alot.

    The developers themselves just have a crack at recording their own voice to save money, unless it is some annoying camp voice, I doubt gamers would give a shit.
    Edited by xuiton at 16/08/11 @ 14:18

  • BigDannyH #18 9 months ago

    I thought Bulletstorm was pretty good. I also liked Singularity, both more fun than the CoD wannabes like Medal of Honour yet, apparently, they didn't sell that well.

    I'd be more interested in Shadow Complex 2 though, the first game was ace! It's the yard-stick to which all XBLA games should be measured.

  • DodgyPast #19 9 months ago

    Given the enjoyment I get out of lower budget indie games it's nice to see epic looking at this kind of market.

    Also good to see a major developer realising that they don't have to live or die by the current arms race where graphics are put ahead of fun. Instead we may see then trying to get the most out of smaller teams rather than taking the easy option of throwing cash and bodies at every problem then crying afterwards when they can't achieve the ridiculous number of sales required to break even.

  • Alestes #20 9 months ago

    If they make a Shadow Complex 2, I hope they will it for PC too and not keep it exclusive to the 360 like the first Shadow Complex. Would be nice if they ported Shadow Complex to PC now too :p

  • Jmog #21 9 months ago

    Most of his remarks sounded sensible and interesting.

    ...I completely forgot all about it when he mentioned Shadow Complex though :-)