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The Engine is Unreal

If you're not a gaming enthusiast or you've been living under a rock this week, you may have missed the Technology Demonstration of Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) on a PS5 preview system.  It's an incredible piece of work packaged in a fully playable demo that showcases the advancements that UE5 has made over the years. A bit of history:  back when Quake was the epitome of first person shooter (FPS) games a company out of Cary, NC called Epic MegaGames (now just Epic Games ) developed this original, futuristic FPS game called Unreal that ran on an original graphics engine simply dubbed The Unreal Engine.  I was a huge Quake fan at the time, and when Unreal was released everyone at the office that were also gamers rushed to see who could finish the game first.  Along the way, we were all awed at how amazing the scenery looked in spite of our relatively low-level graphics cards. (I won the contest, by the way.  It went down via a phone call to my boss on a Saturday: Me [leaving