Making a surprise appearance on stage at Unity’s Unite conference in Barcelona today, Epic Games’ CEO and founder Tim Sweeney ...

That statement from Epic Games’ Senior Technical Artist and Level Designer Alan Willard doesn’t seem like such a big deal on the surface. To a non-programmer, it probably sounds like the blindingly ...

Two years after Epic Games revealed Unreal Engine 5 with a gorgeous tech demo, the next-gen games engine is officially available. It's been released alongside a playable shooter, Lyra. Unreal Engine 5 ...

With the release of Unreal Engine 5.4 in late April, Unreal is offering a new per-seat pricing plan distinct from its existing royalty-based model. With the release of Unreal Engine 5.4 in late April, ...

It won't be long before we start seeing Unreal Engine 5 games out in the wild. Epic Games has announced that its new engine is now available to the public, promising that it will allow developers "to ...

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CARY, North Carolina – Epic Games is much more than a studio creating original game franchises like Unreal Tournament, Gears of War, Bulletstorm and Infinity Blade. The independent game studio was ...

A version of this article was published in TIME’s newsletter Into the Metaverse. Subscribe for a weekly guide to the future of the Internet. You can find past issues of the newsletter here. For years, ...

As a programmer, I thought the coolest moment of the whole demo was when he changed some code, recompiled while still ingame, and then the engine instantly changed to use the new value. All without ...