Epic Games to make Unreal Studio's tools available free

Real-time visualisation platform's Datasmith toolkit will become part of UE4, not as a paid-for service.

Tuesday, November 12th, 2019

Esri ships CityEngine 2019.1

Edit 3D buildings created in the city-generation tool procedurally in Maya via new integration plugin Serlio: free for non-commercial use.

Wednesday, October 9th, 2019

Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.23

Unreal Engine-based real-time visualisation platform gets native support for Cinema 4D, IFC files.

Wednesday, September 4th, 2019

Reallusion releases iClone Unreal Live Link

Plugin transfers iClone characters, lights and cameras to UE4 for real-time rendering, but it isn't cheap.

Friday, July 26th, 2019

Esri ships CityEngine 2019.0

Procedural city generation software gets support for PBR materials, glTF export, improved integration with Houdini and Unreal Studio.

Thursday, May 16th, 2019

Eye candy: the 2019 Godot engine games reels

See the best games created in the popular open-source engine, from colourful tower defence titles to ultra-cute shooters.

Wednesday, April 17th, 2019

Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.22

Real-time visualisation platform gets hardware-accelerated ray tracing, option to import simple 3ds Max animations.

Wednesday, April 17th, 2019

Game engine and crowd tools devs win tech Emmy Awards

Creators of UE4 and Unity win 2019 Technology & Engineering awards, along with Massive, Golaem, Miarmy and Houdini.

Thursday, April 11th, 2019

Reallusion previews Unreal iClone Live Link

New plugin will let users stream animation from iClone to Unreal Engine for rendering in real time.

Tuesday, March 26th, 2019

Chaos Group releases V-Ray for Unreal

New app converts scenes created in other editions of V-Ray for use in UE4, also baking out V-Ray lights.

Friday, November 9th, 2018

Epic Games releases Unreal Studio 4.21

Real-time visualisation platform gets support for Revit files, new shared design review template.

Thursday, November 8th, 2018

Allright Rig 2.0 ships via Unreal Marketplace

Versatile UE4 auto-rigging plugin creates a range of characters and creatures, with facial animation.

Tuesday, October 2nd, 2018

Crytek ships CryEngine 5.5

Long-awaited update to game engine updates GI system and Sandbox editor; introduces new 5%-of-royalties licensing model.

Monday, September 24th, 2018