Terminal Reality ain't afraid of licensing no middleware

The developers behind the upcoming PS3 and Xbox 360 versions of Ghostbusters: The Video Game have informed us that the engine driving the game, the Infernal Engine, is open for third-party licensing. In fact, Terminal Reality will be meeting behind closed doors to discuss licensing its tech with several folks at the DICE Conference, which is going on right now in Red Rock, Nevada.

Terminal Reality says its engine is compatible with all next-gen platforms, including PC, and can take "full advantage of next generation hardware while scaling easily to all systems." It features "an advanced physics solution, powerful particle system, and rendering features that provide ultra-realistic environments and characters." In layman's terms, the Infernal Engine can make stuff.

The image above was crafted using the engine, and will serve as one of the items Terminal Reality uses to market its middleware product. So, developers, if you're looking for something that can help you create dudes with glowing eyes, old rifles, and a taste for tacky jewelry, who you gonna call?

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Doesn't DICE already have Frostbite Engine? Or is that a third party engine as well?

The D.I.C.E. (Design, Innovate, Communicate, Entertain) Conference has nothing to do with the Swedish game company, EA Digital Illusions Creative Entertainment (D.I.C.E.).

They do have their own Frostbite engine, but they also use the Unreal 3 engine for some games.

Good luck to Infernal, seems like its a bad time to try and sell an engine seeing as how Unreal 3 is in just about everything these days, besides the Wii.

Ohhhh, I get it now. Ha, I'm retarded. Thanks for explaining that Toad. Much appreciated.

Awesome.

A game engine that can make a leather trenchcoat look like cheap plastic. Just what gamers everywhere have been waiting for.

See? They did a great job, you should be a fan. That's actually textures and polygons that they made look like a leather trenchcoat that looks like it's made of cheap plastic! It's so meta.

is that image from Ghostbusters, another game altogether or was it created SPECIFICALLY for use with showing off the engine??

The image above was crafted using the engine, and will serve as one of the items Terminal Reality uses to market its middleware product. So, developers, if you're looking for something that can help you create dudes with glowing eyes, old rifles, and a taste for tacky jewelry, who you gonna call?

You hurt Hinkle's feelings when you don't read the article.

dude did YOU read the article???

did it say it was Created SOLELY for use for promotion purposes??

I mean hell Ghostbusters uses said engine as well and most likely will be in the promotion materials

Ahh cool it, Charlie. Tone down the histrionics. :P Reading it, I felt it implied that no, it's not from Ghost Busters, and yes it was being used solely for promotional purposes. There are a few smarty pants below me who have the right answer.

So... why am I the only one that realises the screenshot is based on Nocturne? I know it's just a kind of tech demo shot, but that they're using The Stranger to promote the engine is pretty cool, and hopefully a hint for a sequel..

Damnit!! you beat me to it. I thought I was the only one to notice!! How much fun was that game anyways!!!

Oh, how we could hope. If memory serves, Gathering of Developers owned the Nocturne franchise and not Terminal Reality, and when Nocturne didn't sell especially great they nixed any idea of a sequel. Most of the staff who worked on the original game are no longer at Terminal Reality either. I know that at least one member is now working on Duke Nukem Forever.

Nocturne is one of my all time favourite games, too!

The image above is also an IP Terminal Reality used to have the rights for back in the 90's. I believe the character is called "The Stranger" and was a part of a paranormal investigative unit in the 1930's. It was a super cool storyline with gameplay that resembled the Alone in the Dark series. It had the humor and visual finesse of the Hellboy franchise with a lot more horror thrown in.

I miss that game.

But you're right. Anything built over that old engine probably just won't cut the mustard these days... unless you're reviving a 1980's movie about catching ghosts.

Good call, now I want to play that game :P

DMM and Euphoria are the future. No matter the game engine used.

I look forward to a world where all games are not created using the UE3 engine... I'm so sick of that engine.

By 'next-gen', did Terminal Reality mean 'current-gen'?

Seriously, how long do these consoles have to be out for people to stop referring to them as next-gen.

Three generations.

Is this the engine that made PC game Infernal? I really enjoyed the demo for that one.

Smart move on their part, engine licensing nets more revenue then making titles does. It will be interesting to see who uses this vs id's or Epic's.

Terminal Reality ain't afraid of licensing no middleware

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