Unreal Studio now free until November 2019

Suite of tools for getting CAD data into Unreal Engine for visualisation to stay in open beta another year.

Tuesday, September 18th, 2018

Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.20

UE4-based visualisation platform gets iterative import workflow, new SketchUp exporter, MDL support.

Saturday, July 21st, 2018

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.20

Artists get new Niagara modular VFX editor, new options for shading human skin, plus cinematic DoF.

Saturday, July 21st, 2018

Master VFX workflows for games in Unreal Engine

Riot Games artist Jeremy Griffith's detailed Gnomon tutorial provides over nine hours of UE4 training.

Friday, June 22nd, 2018

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

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.18

Game engine gets support for Google's ARCore AR system, better lightmapping and media playback.

Thursday, October 26th, 2017

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.16

Big update to game engine adds volumetric fog; plus new physics, animation and VR editing features.

Friday, May 26th, 2017

Sneak peek: Unreal Engine 4.16's new physics tools

Check out the neat new clothing simulation options and Immediate Mode physics system due in the next release.

Tuesday, March 28th, 2017

Epic Games unveils new VR editing tools in Unreal Engine

In-VR mesh and animation editing tools now available as free public preview. Support for OpenSubdiv and USD also due.

Tuesday, March 7th, 2017

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.15

Update improves texture streaming and tonemapping, adds support for Nintendo Switch and HDR displays.

Thursday, February 16th, 2017

Unity Technologies releases Unity 5.6 and EditorVR in beta

Sizeable update to the game engine now available in beta, along with its new VR editing toolset.

Thursday, December 15th, 2016

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.14

Update adds contact shadows, new forward renderer aimed at VR work, built-in automated LOD generation.

Thursday, November 17th, 2016

Download the free Allright Rig for Unreal Engine

Beta of Alexander Shatalov's promising rigging and animation add-on for UE4 now free to all.

Friday, September 23rd, 2016