Mozilla And Epic Games Bring Unreal Engine 3 To The Web, No Plugin Needed

[rich]

 

Back in 2011, Epic ported its popular Unreal Engine 3 technology to Flash and showed how relatively high-end 3D games could run in the browser. It’s 2013 now, however, and Flash isn’t exactly a hot topic anymore. So to show off what game developers can do with a modern browser and without plugins today, Mozilla and Epic teamed up a little while ago to port Unreal Engine 3 to the web, something that was unthinkable back in 2011.

 

http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/27/mozilla-and-epic-games-bring-unreal-engine-3-to-the-web-no-plugin-needed/

[yetanother]

That's awesome!

[austin]

Mozilla has been doing some fantastic things for HTML5 - I'm very excited for both this, and Firefox OS. I've played around with the test device they sent a bit, and it's pretty nice - still glitchy, but impressive being built completely on open APIs

[Autarc]

Same goes for the Multiplayer implementation in BananaBread - Cube 2 Matches via PeerConnections.

 

Shows what we can expect from WebRTC usage in gaming, even though it's still emscripted and hacked together 

[rich]

This interview with the Epic guys goes into lots more details (with considerably less hyperbole too)

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/189583/Interview_Epic_goes_allin_on_HTML_5_with_UE4_support.php