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 joins the Open 3D Foundation

Unreal Engine creator now a board member of the governing body for rival game engine Open 3D Engine.

Monday, July 25th, 2022

Epic Games buys ArtStation

Top online portfolio service will stay open to non-games artists and Unreal Engine users. Sales fees on ArtStation Marketplace reduced.

Sunday, May 2nd, 2021

Wysilab wins Epic MegaGrant for Instant Terra

Money will help fund development of an Unreal Engine live link plugin for the terrain generation software.

Tuesday, September 22nd, 2020

Maxon awarded $200,000 Epic MegaGrant

Money will fund development of a Cineware-style live link between Cinema 4D and Unreal Engine.

Thursday, September 10th, 2020

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

Reallusion wins Epic MegaGrant

Game tools developer wins funding from Epic Games. Its iClone Unreal Live Link is free to indie users.

Monday, May 18th, 2020

ArmorPaint wins $25,000 Epic MegaGrant

The money will fund development of the promising open-source 3D texture painting tool through 2020.

Wednesday, February 26th, 2020

Godot Engine wins $250,000 Epic MegaGrant

Strings-free dev grant will be used to improve the open-source game engine's rendering capabilities.

Tuesday, February 4th, 2020

Krita wins Epic MegaGrant

Digital painting tool becomes the latest open-source CG app to be backed by Epic Games, winning $25,000 to improve QA testing.

Thursday, December 19th, 2019

Epic Games donates $1.2 million to Blender development

'No strings attached' three-year grant almost doubles Blender development funding at a stroke.

Monday, July 15th, 2019

5 industry stories you may have missed in December 2021

Including end of life for Meshmixer and the 3ds Max Asset Library, and unified licences for Chaos Phoenix.

Friday, December 31st, 2021

Get promising free low-poly 3D modeling tool Dust3D

Neat ultra-lightweight tool creates low-poly games assets, complete with automated character rigs.

Wednesday, January 15th, 2020