Video gaming minds from the East and the West have recently joined forces to deliver to us some interesting action titles in the near future. Electronic Arts signed a partnership with Grasshopper Manufacture and Epic Games during its Bay Area showcase event, revealing a few new projects in the works for the new studio, EA Partners. Find out more in our full article.

Capcom has announced that it has once again licensed Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3 for another to-be-announced title. Further details regarding this news are available in the full article.

Unreal Engine.">Epic Games, known for setting the bar with its powerful Unreal Engine 3 which powered Gears of War and Unreal Tournament 3, makes it well known that licensees of its engine can expect bleeding edge graphics. According to the company's president Michael Capps, that's why there won't be an Epic game on the Wii. Get the drift? Find all the details at the full article.

Epic Games CEO and founder Tim Sweeney expressed his opinion on the flagging state of the PC gaming industry. In an interview conducted by TG Daily, he pointed out the different problems the PC marke t is facing as well as some possible solutions the industry can take if it wants to make some headway against its rivals. You can check out the rest of the interview by reading our full article, accessible through the "read more" link below.

And as the 2008 Olympics draws near, it's hype seems to grow more influential. While Beijing has been transformed to house an Olympic city - making the latter a city within a city - Mario & Sonic at the Olympic Games makes serious headway into the casual gaming market. Or maybe it's just in the UK, where SEGA's joint Olympics game with Nintendo holds top spot for another week running.

2K Games, the studio that brought us such games as Bioshock, Civilization IV, and the Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion, has announced that they are developing a new lineup of games that will be using the Unreal Engine 3. Not that 2K Games is a stranger to the Unreal Engine: Bioshock ran on it. If they're set to come out with new Bioshock-quality games then we're all for it. More in the full article.

It's been a common practice in the video game industry for developers to license game engine technology to avoid having to build the foundations of games, saving time and money in the process. However, some of the industry's best game makers see this as a bad practice, fueling a debate in DICE 2008. Find out who are for it and who are against it, and which side AAA titles like Resistance: Fall of Ma, Ratchet & Clank, BioShock, and Mass Effect fall into when you read the full article ahead.

Fans of the Alone in the Dark franchise can heave a big sigh of relief... for now, at least. As it turns out, an Atari spokesperson just debunked the rumor of Alone in the Dark for the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360, and PC being delayed all the way to September. More details in the full article!

Back in industry news, we're seeing the new generation of game tools entering the limelight as Game Developer magazine's 10th honorary Front Line Awards draws to a conclusion. Budding game devs take note: 2007's Front Line Awards winner line up headlines the tools used by the industry's biggest studios to create the next gaming generation's current titles. Get the full list of winners at the full story.

If your bet during last year's Game Developers Choice Awards (GDCA) wasn't able to nab first place, then perhaps you'll have better luck this year as the Game Developers Conference has opened up the nominations for the 2008 GDCA event to be held this coming February 20.

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