Cliff Bleszinski explains why there are so many bald space marines

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The best facial hair is grown by bald men.

This.

But he just called BS on that.

"Isn't one of their games/projects Fat Princess?"

no. that's a sony game.

It's a PS3 game but it ain't one of Sonys First Parties.
Correct me if I'm wrong but Titan Studios is part of Unreal yes?

You're wrong. Unreal is a game engine, owned and created by Epic. Titan Studios may use the Unreal engine, but it is not "part of" Unreal.

@Wired Knight

Actually WiredKnight deanb is correct in saying that Titan Studios (formerly Darkstar Industries) is wholly owned by Epic Games.

http://titanstudios.com/

From their website:
2006-2008, Titan Studios, Inc. All rights reserved. Epic Games China and ***Titan Studios*** are trademarks or registered trademarks of Epic Games China and Titan Studios, respectively, in the United States of America and elsewhere. Epic, Epic Games, the Epic Games logo, Unreal, Unreal Engine, Unreal Technology, the Unreal Technology logo, and the Circle-U logo are trademarks or registered trademarks of Epic Games, Inc. in the United States of America and elsewhere. Other brands or product names are the trademarks of their respective owners

Press release talking about Titan Studious being owned by Epic Games:
http://www.gamasutra.com/php-bin/news_index.php?story=21046

@deanb

Fat Princess is being published by Sony and it's Sony who owns the Fat Princess IP (not epic). In fact, Sony has completely funded both the PS3 & PSP versions of Fat Princess. I don't see much coorelation between the hair in Fat Princess and the hair that would be required for a Unreal Tournament or Gears Of War title. However, I think Cliffy B is just making excuses for his poor character design choices. Instead of owning that his vision was a bunch of bald hulks he blames the lack of hair on the platform. I seem to recall lots of other games whose characters have long hair.

I wasn't commenting on the hair thing here, more on what his 5 projects could be. As Joystiq have given 2 suggestions I thought I'd have a go at guessing the other 3.

Hair worked back then because it matched the rest of the graphics: crappy. Now, we can do good hair to match the nice graphics, but it preforms like crap. So instead of having a good looking game with shitty looking hair as a compromise, they opt out of hair alotgether.

they could do it then because it matched the rest of the graphics: crap. they can't get away with ugly hair in an otherwise beautiful game nowadays. there were two ways to compromise: make the rest of your game look like it matches the hair, or remove the hair. pretty hair at the cost of performance is not worth it.

I love you joystiq comments software

They are more concerned with things like metal $ rock, green life and hair are fairly hard to develop for. But I still dont see "realism" on any Real time engine, other than HDR lighting, pretty simple for "Dumb surfaces" with normal mapping, They are still repeating the same process over and over again. No Ambient oclussion whatsover, no fluid engines, no procesdural texturing, etc ...you know what went high? bandwidht to inject bitmapped textures.. and they are hammering over that all the time..oh yes,m you get processing power to get Natal, and Tracking devices, but NO to develop hair shaders..
As I said is pretty cheap to get an army of kids painting guns, tanks and walls...

It basically has everything you need to make a game integrated inside of it ... It does it all in terms of in game effects of any kind. However, there has been some noise made that Epic doesn't properly support the engine to companies that liscense the product.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unreal_Engine

The third generation Unreal Engine was designed for DirectX 9/10 PCs, the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3.[2] Its renderer supports many advanced techniques including HDRR, per-pixel lighting, and dynamic shadows, and builds upon the tools available in previous versions of the engine. Unreal Engine 3 IPP (Integrated Partners Program) includes:

Nvidia PhysX[3]
OC3 Entertainment FaceFX[4]
RAD Game Tools' Bink Video
DivX, Inc.'s DivX
Quazal Technologies's Rendez-Vous and Spark [5]
Fonix Speech's VoiceIn and DecTalk [6]
Autodesk's Kynapse A.I. [7]
A.I. Implant for games[8]
IDV's SpeedTreeRT [9]
Pixel Mine Games's nFringe[10]
Autodesk's HumanIK[11]
Vivox's Precision Studio™ SDK[12]
EAX 5.0
Digimask's Diskmask SDK
Geomerics's Enlighten [13]
Allegorithmic's ProFX [14]
PhaseSpace's Motion Capture [15]
IGN's GameSpy [16]
Umbra Software's Umbra, dPVS, sPVS.[17]
Illuminate Labs's Beast[18]
NaturalMotion's Morpheme[19]
Scaleform GFx[20] Flash UI and Video
MÄK Technologies's Game-Link[21]
Audiokinetic's Wwise – WaveWorks Interactive Sound Engine[22]