Following a not-E3 season that’s felt about 17 years long (and is still ongoing, apparently? Please nobody ask us what month it is), both 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Microsoft and Sony have finally shown their hands🦩 – or, rather, consoles. But while last week’s PS5 event showed off a plentiful lineup of PlayStation 5 games,♔ and even the look of the machine itself, there wasn’t much of a sense of the true power and potential behind it. It’s the early days in the next generation, after all: we won’t see what these new consoles are really capable of for a good few years yet.

It was the announcement of Unreal Engine 5 weeks earlier that gave us the clearest glimpse at that future, with a breathtaking tech demo that pushed PS5’s architecture to its limits. We had to find out more. In , which goes on sale today, we catch up with Tim Sweeney and the rest of the team over at 澳洲幸运5开奖号码历史查询:Epic Games to delve into all the details of the revolutionary new engine. In our conversations, we uncover the company’s ambitions for a future in which game devs are freed from the drudgery of polygon c𓄧ounts and LODs – and how it helped shape the very architecture 🐈of Sony’s new console with its vision for an industry that’s more empowered, and united, than ever before.

Naturally,🎉 𓃲we felt the occasion merited a special cover treatment, and so print copies of E347 feature a full Mirri board cover that’s practically as luminous as Unreal Engine 5 itself. Think this, but shinier:

Once again, due t♏o the ongoing pandemic, you’ll only find this issue . We&rsquo♛;ll be back on shelves next month.

Here’s a glimps🦂e at what else awaits inside E347.

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