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Big update to game engine adds animation retargeting, raytraced soft shadows, improved AO and SSS.

Wednesday, October 15th, 2014

Updated: you can now download it directly from GitHub, rather than waiting for your school to sign up.

Wednesday, October 8th, 2014

Updated: download Epic Games' free Zen Garden demo to try Unreal Engine 4 on iOS 8 for yourself.

Thursday, September 18th, 2014

New car paint shading model, and updates to Persona. Subscribers also get 7 free Mixamo animations.

Monday, August 4th, 2014

Updated, now shipping: engine now includes runtime of IDV's vegetation system, plus three free trees.

Thursday, July 17th, 2014

Update to game engine adds subtle GI, AO and shadow translucency effects, improved collision geometry.

Thursday, July 10th, 2014

Updated: sizeable new update to engine to add new IK solver and camera animation system.

Tuesday, May 20th, 2014

See an explosion go from FumeFX simulation to in-game effect in Epic's new Inside Unreal tech demo.

Wednesday, February 19th, 2014

New 192-core mobile GPU beats last-gen consoles, brings high-end PC graphics to tablets, claims Nvidia.

Monday, January 6th, 2014

See how Epic Games set up the fluid and particle effects for its UE4 Infiltrator tech demo.

Monday, December 9th, 2013

Updated with new video: see how Epic's next-gen game engine was used in its Infiltrator tech demo.

Friday, September 27th, 2013

Latest outing for the game engine shows physically based materials and some very nice HDR reflections.

Monday, April 1st, 2013

See Allegorithmic's parametric texture format in action in UE3 in the very Lovecraftian 'Beneath' demo.

Monday, February 18th, 2013

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