What do games like Gears of War, Mass Effect, and XCOM have in common? Besides their shared objective of blowing aliens to bits with great big laser guns, they are all built with the Unreal Engine 4.

Epic’s new engine could halve production costs, lower the prices of games, and spur détente between developers and consumers. From anyone who has seen Epic’s “Elemental” demo of Unreal ...

At a GDC 2014 press briefing today, Epic founder Tim Sweeney announced that Unreal Engine 4 is now available for game development, but not just for big studios. Access to the binary development ...

Epic Games has just announced that they are releasing their full Unreal Engine 4 and its source code to everyone. For $19 a month anyone can use the engine to power their games.

Today, Epic Games revealed Unreal Engine 5. Epic has revealed that developers can begin projects in Unreal Engine 4 and carry them forward to Unreal Engine 5. Unreal Engine 5 will be available in ...

Epic also is releasing the source code of the Unreal Engine 4 in the hopes that it will foster a community of tinkering and manipulating and user development. "The source code is Epic's crown jewel.

Unreal Engine 4, the latest version of the game engine developed by Epic Games, is now completely free for anyone to use, the company announced today. Epic originally launched Unreal Engine 4 in ...