An Unreal game remake could be on the cards from the team behind last year's Quake remastered. Apparently, Nightdive Studios has "reached out" to Epic Games about a possible Unreal 1 remastered release - which would finally mark the return of one of the best FPS games on PC.
Despite the popularity of Epic's Unreal Engine - which these days powers everything from The Witcher 4 to the next game from the Alien Isolation team, as well as the studio's own Fortnite - the engine hasn't been used to create a new Unreal game since the free Unreal Tournament game, which is pretty dead now.
While it's not a new Unreal single-player game, Nightdive Studios - the team behind the Quake remaster, bringing Doom 64 to PC, and the upcoming System Shock remake - wants to remaster the original, best Unreal game. According to Nightdive CEO Stephen Kick, Unreal and Gears of War co-creator Cliff Bleszinski "reached out" to Epic head Tim Sweeney after Quake remastered released in order to "give Unreal the same treatment."
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