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

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

Crytek releases CryEngine 5.4

Now officially released. Free game engine gets support for Substance Designer materials, new Vulkan renderer, and terrain blending.

Thursday, September 21st, 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

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

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

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 4.11

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

Wednesday, April 6th, 2016

Crytek releases CryEngine V for free

AAA game engine now available on a 'pay what you want basis'; gets new C# API and particle system, revamped renderer.

Wednesday, March 16th, 2016

Amazon releases free Lumberyard game engine

Get full source code access to the CryEngine-based AAA engine, aimed at multiplayer online titles.

Wednesday, February 10th, 2016