Demonstration of a NVIDIA Tegra powered Windows RT tablet running Unreal 3 engine. Coming to Windows Phone 8?

Unreal 3 Windows 8 RT

Gaming on Windows 8 tablets (and the platform as a whole) simply got a whole lot cooler with a demonstration of the Unreal Engine three running on an ASUS Windows RT tablet. Powered by NVIDIA's Tegra, the tablet was shown today running the engine flagship demoEpic Citadel at IFA Berlin.

NVIDIA chop-chop ran through the demo at the ASUS Vivo Tab RT press conference, which was the first public showing of an Unreal Engine iii app (or game) on the Windows RT platform. As well every bit Windows 8 (and Pro), the engine has been optimised for Windows RT devices to ensure consumers have a broad choice of available titles from the Windows Store.

The articulation effort by NVIDIA and Epic (the visitor behind the Unreal Engine three) made porting the engine to Windows 8 and RT possible, which was made available to developers terminal week. Operating on 9 platforms, with more than 20 integrated technologies and licensed for more than 225 titles, the Unreal Engine 3 is certainly more than welcome on the new Windows.

Microsoft has the 3-screen vision in heed, and the porting of the Unreal Engine 3 will ensure developers can easily launch titles on Windows 8, whether they are already established on the PC or Xbox. Integrating the Xbox Live service into games on Windows viii would unleash a new way of gaming for PC users.

Marking Rein, Vice President of Epic Games, had the following to add:

"The Unreal Engine iii-powered 'Epic Citadel' demonstration for Windows RT tablets implements the full DirectX nine pipeline, with shaders and materials, all running beautifully on Tegra three. By porting the full engine as opposed to a modified mobile version, NVIDIA and Epic have made it easy for UE3 developers around the world to bring their best content to Windows RT, Windows 8 and NVIDIA'due south Tegra iii processor. Windows RT lawmaking is available to licensees from Epic now and we're excited to see the great games they develop with information technology."

Cheque out the Ballsy Citadel demonstration in the video below, running on an ASUS Windows RT tablet.

While all is expert and dandy in the garden of Windows 8 and Windows RT, we're withal to run across progress being made on the Windows Telephone front to get the Unreal Engine 3 to consumers on Microsoft'southward mobile platform. Epic previously skipped Windows Phone due to the "closed environs" present, only with Windows Phone 8 around the corner, possibly nosotros'll see an opening for the studio to port the engine.

In fact, we've heard from our sources that Unreal has been involved in attending some meetings with Microsoft in this regard, so take that every bit yous will.

Source: NVIDIA