If you’re not a hardcore geek, the above video and headline is really meaningless to you.  If you are, your head just exploded.  Same if you’re Sony, Microsoft or Nintendo.

Let me break it down to you…

Gears of War? BioShock? Batman: Arkham Asylum?

What do they have in common?  If you said “they’re all amazing games”, you’re half right.

They all run on an engine called “Unreal Engine 3”, a graphical engine made to make programming easier for developers, while at the same time, producing graphically stunning games.

And it can run on the most popular smartphone currently available.

Now, this doesn’t mean you’ll be seeing ports of all of these games to the iPhone, the available memory doesn’t allow it (yet). What it does mean, though, is games of a similar quality will soon be available for your freaking telephone.

Modern technology folks, it blows my mind.

Apparently we’ll be seeing the first instances of this tech on the iPhone in early 2010.  Sure, the gameplay will have to match the graphics…but it’s freaking on.

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