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

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.13

New features in varied update range from Alembic support to the option to paint meshes inside the VR Editor.

Thursday, September 8th, 2016

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.12

Check out the new VR Editor mode and Sequencer cinematic editor. Lots of new mobile options, too.

Thursday, June 2nd, 2016

Epic Games ships Daydream plugin for Unreal Engine 4

Support for Google's new mobile VR platform available already. Source code out now, binaries due in June.

Friday, May 20th, 2016

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.11

Big update to game engine includes new Sequencer cinematics editor. Source code for the upcoming VR Editor also available.

Wednesday, April 6th, 2016

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.10

Update optimises rendering for VR and shading for mobile devices, adds support for Visual Studio 2015.

Friday, November 13th, 2015

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.9

Wide-ranging update adds new rendering and animation options, plus experimental support for DirectX 12.

Tuesday, September 1st, 2015

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.8

Updated: Now officially shipping. New downloadable .exe file for the UE4 Kite demo due this week, too.

Thursday, June 11th, 2015

Unreal Engine is now free

Epic Games removes $19/month fee for world-conquering engine. Pay only if your game is successful.

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015

Unreal Engine 4.7 ships

Engine now publishes games in HTML5 format to play in a browser; better foliage rendering options.

Wednesday, February 25th, 2015

IKinema adds graph editor to WebAnimate

Updated: Free browser-based service gets new tools for stitching and retargeting motion clips.

Tuesday, November 11th, 2014

Videos: watch Epic Games demo Unreal Engine 4

See footage of the new engine from E3 2012: viscous fluids, GPU particles and indirect lighting, oh my.

Friday, June 8th, 2012

Epic posts training videos from Unreal University

Watch 10 one-hour sessions on working with Unreal Engine 3, recorded in Montreal last week.

Thursday, November 10th, 2011