Epic's Mark Rein

Yeah. We can always get more badass.

We're a conglomerate of badassery.

Yeah, I can picture that... I think whatever we do, we'll get better at it. Have you seen Shadow Complex? It's really good.

Oh, is that it? But we should just talk generally about our engine.

I said generally, not specifically.

This year at E3 we showed three really major features that showed how we're improving performance, visual quality and productivity as well as [at this point, Rein delivers a lengthy monologue about the benefits of Unreal Engine 3. For the sake of brevity, it can be summarised thus: 'The Unreal Engine's quite good, buy one.'] So the thing is I've started joking with people that if we had a minor numbering system for Unreal Engine 3, I think we'd be at 3.7 or 3.8 by now.

It really is a very mature engine with a lot of great new functionality and improved performance every year.

I know. You'll condense that though, you're good at that.

But you'll remember I said it. 'Don't forget, Epic continues to improve their technology every year...'

I guess that was kind of shlocky.

Like, "Smaller, tighter, more badass."

Yes, it sounds too much like a porn commercial.

No, I don't think so. I've read the forums. No.