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

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

Esri ships CityEngine 2018.0

Procedural 3D city-generation tool gets greater integration with Unreal Studio for VR work, new option to distribute geometry along curves.

Friday, May 11th, 2018

Videos: Epic Games' Unreal new digital human demos

Watch Epic's eye-popping real-time demos, then discover the facial capture tech that powers them.

Thursday, March 22nd, 2018

Epic Games launches Unreal Studio in free open beta

New real-time visualisation product gets 3ds Max scenes or CAD data into Unreal Engine for rendering.

Wednesday, March 7th, 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