"Middleware, often a fast-shifting field, has been pushed even further into the average developer’s field of view, with recent developments such as EA’s purchasing of Renderware, and the advent of next-gen technologies and next-gen costs for consoles.
Few have more to say about middleware than Mark Rein, Vice President of Epic, maker of Unreal Engine, as well as the Unreal consumer software, among others. Regarding costs, Rein takes to task the estimates of many large companies. To him, if your costs are going up so significantly, you’re just not working smart." [
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