


“While there is still a decent chance this year’s U.S. continues to decline as consumers contend with both economic uncertainties and a new post-pandemic normal,” said Sensor Tower gaming insights lead Dennis Yeh last week. But this year's decline marks a surprising downturn for mobile. Mobile gaming has typically offset the losses in console and PC gaming and has been the largest and fastest-growing sector in the industry for years. “As we head into the metaverse, think of the possibility of games, experiences, stories that are generated in real time.” “We’re on the cusp of really not being able to tell the difference between reality and the virtual world,” Epic CTO Kim Libreri, who worked as visual effects supervisor on the original “Matrix” trilogy, told Protocol in December. The software was created using some of the most cutting-edge video game development tools ever made, and those tools will be released more widely to the game development and Hollywood visual effects communities later this year with the public release of Unreal Engine 5. It also gives players a peek at the shrinking distinction between real and computer-generated imagery that could dominate both future big-budget video games and the avatars and other assets that populate the metaverse. It acts as a showcase for the the real-time blend of cinematic storytelling with unprecedented levels of photorealism. But The Matrix Awakens represents, in Epic's eyes, the future of its business.

It's an impressive figure for what largely amounts to a short, trailer-like experience that doubled at the time as an advertisement for the fourth "Matrix" film. It contains a city complete with buildings, vehicles and hordes of MetaHuman characters.Epic Games' The Matrix Awakens, an interactive tech demo for its upcoming Unreal Engine 5 platform, has amassed more than 6 million downloads since the company released the free software on PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles on Dec. “City Example” is a free downloadable example project that reveals how the city scene in The Matrix: Resurrection – Unreal Engine 5 Demo is built. This downloadable project titled “City Example” reveals how the city scene in The Matrix: Resurrection – Unreal Engine 5 Demo is built, showing how to use Unreal Engine 5 to bring cities to life. However, it should be noted that to experience this project, the Unreal Engine 5 program needs to be installed on the computer. At the same time, “The Hacker Quest: Resurrection – Unreal Engine 5 Demo Edition”, which previously landed on the PS5 and XS platforms, has also launched the “City Example” content on the PC platform for players to experience for free.

Yesterday evening, Epic officially released the official version of Unreal Engine 5 and made it available for download.
