Epic's unannounced game to "push next-gen graphics"

Epic Games has a new title in development that will push the power of the new consoles, according to studio co-founder Tim Sweeney.

Players were wowed by Epic's Gears of War at the start of the last console generation, and Sweeney predicts this unannounced game will provoke the same reaction.

However he didn't want to reveal too much, and we might have to wait until E3 in a few months to find out more.

"It's going to push next generation graphics as you'd always expect Epic to do," Sweeney told Edge.

He did have a few things to say about the studio's Unreal Engine 4, though, which is being used by many developers to create the latest games.

"There's a lot [of games] on the way and a large number of them haven't been announced," he added. "You'll see lots of triple-A stuff coming out over time.

"The industry is changing. This generation it seems like there are about a third of the number of triple-A titles in development across the industry as there was last time around - and each one seems to have about three times the budget of the previous generation.

"I think we're heading towards a future where triple-A is the minority."

Epic is also making Unreal Engine 4 more accessible to other studios, even introducing a new subscription service which allows PC, Mac, iOS and Android developers to access Epic's game creation tools.

'It's meant to be as accessible to indies as a subscription to an MMO," said Sweeney, a big fan of indie development.

"As these triple-A games are seeing fewer releases then the empty spaces in between are being filled by indie projects of all scales."

Epic is currently working on a survival sandbox title called Fortnite, due to release sometime this year.