Obviously, Unreal Engine 3 has been somewhat under fire since Silicon Knights filed their lawsuit alleging (more or less) that UE3 wasn’t what Epic had claimed it would be, and that it was significantly late to boot. Since then, Mark Rein, Vice President of Epic Games has been on a PR campaign of sorts, trying to shore up the image of UE3. The latest salvo in this campaign came a couple of days ago when Mark Rein took some time to pat his engine on the back while complementing Bioshock on its somewhat surprising success:

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Oh Bioshock. You’re like the mean girl that we call up every night. You scare us. You hurt us. You’re mean. On the hardest difficulty setting, you are nigh unto impossible! But you are addictive, like heroin or crack cocaine. So much so that Valve has banned you, you production sucking whore.

“We had to ban Bioshock from our offices,” Valve boss Gabe Newell told us. “Nobody gets to play it until Orange Box is done – that’s our reward to ourselves as a company; everyone gets a copy of Bioshock.”

Its nice that one studio can love another studio. This war will not end true friendships. Admiration creates quality. Now, go away. This Ultra-Bouncer is gonna be a bitch!

[Via Game-industry]

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