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Epic Games lays off 16% of its employees, sells Bandcamp

But the firm 'continues to invest' in Unreal Engine, MetaHuman, Megascans, Twinmotion and RealityCapture, despite 830 job cuts.

Friday, September 29th, 2023

Epic Games buys Sketchfab

Unreal Engine dev acquires the leading 3D model portfolio service and library of AR-ready content. Fees cut on the Sketchfab store.

Thursday, July 22nd, 2021

Epic buys RealityCapture creator Capturing Reality

Photogrammetry app used for the Megascans library to be 'integrated into the UE4 ecosystem'. Prices cut.

Wednesday, March 10th, 2021

Epic Games will pay you $10,000 to learn Unreal Engine

New Unreal Fellowship program will pay VFX and games pros to do four weeks of online UE4 training.

Tuesday, July 21st, 2020

Epic Games acquires facial mocap firm Cubic Motion

Unreal Engine developer continues to buy its partners from its recent real-time digital human tech demos.

Friday, March 13th, 2020

Epic Games releases Twinmotion 2020.1

Big update gives the visualisation tool new rendering features, better 3D characters and plants - and an aggressive new price.

Wednesday, March 11th, 2020

Epic Games acquires Quixel

All 10,000-plus Megascans assets to be made free to Unreal Engine users; Quixel Mixer and Bridge to be released free for everyone.

Tuesday, November 12th, 2019

Epic Games acquires Shave and a Haircut

Version 9.6 of the veteran Maya hair plugin to be released free to UE4 users, including source code.

Thursday, June 6th, 2019

Epic Games buys Twinmotion

Intuitive real-time architectural visualisation tool now free to download until 2020 - including use in commercial work.

Monday, May 13th, 2019

Epic Games acquires facial capture specialist 3Lateral

Buyout of Epic's tech partner from its amazing GDC demos to boost work on digital humans in UE4.

Thursday, January 24th, 2019

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.19

Update adds live link plugins for Maya and MotionBuilder, material layers, physical units for lights.

Thursday, March 15th, 2018

Autodesk announces its 2013 games tools line-up

New versions of Beast, HumanIK, Kynapse, Cognition, Population and Scaleform go on show at GDC 2012.

Wednesday, March 7th, 2012

Quixel ships Mixer 2022.1

Free material-authoring app gets opacity and emissive map support. Release 'may be one of the final updates' to Mixer in its current form.

Monday, November 7th, 2022

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