Side Effects ships Houdini Engine for UE4

New plugin enables games artists to edit procedural content created in Houdini inside Unreal Engine 4.

Tuesday, December 8th, 2015

Side Effects ships Houdini 15 and Houdini Engine 2.0

Wide-ranging update adds new modelling, animation, simulation tools; native support for RenderMan RIS shaders.

Thursday, October 15th, 2015

Fabric Software ships Fabric Engine 2

Create complex CG tools without coding with Fabric's long-awaited new visual programming system.

Thursday, October 1st, 2015

Faceware launches Unreal plugin for Faceware Live

Stream facial motion data from the markerless capture system into UE4 and see it retargeted in real time.

Saturday, August 15th, 2015

Autodesk launches Stingray game engine

New engine to ship on 19 August from $30/month, with suite of supporting middleware. Free to Maya LT users.

Tuesday, August 4th, 2015

Fabric Software unveils Fabric Engine for Modo

VFX tools development platform to be integrated with Modo. Houdini, Cinema 4D and Unreal Engine also in the works.

Tuesday, May 5th, 2015

Side Effects releases beta of Houdini Engine for UE4

Updated: New plugin for using Houdini content inside Unreal Engine 4 now available for testing.

Friday, April 3rd, 2015

Our new Source 2 engine will be free, says Valve

Successor to the engine used on Half-Life 2 and Team Fortress 2 will be 'free to content developers'.

Wednesday, March 4th, 2015

Epic to offer $50,000 grants for indie Unreal projects

Money available for shorts and visualisations as well as games - and even student class projects.

Friday, February 20th, 2015

Houdini Indie and Houdini Engine Indie hit Unity store

Low-cost rental-only editions now available in Unity Asset Store. Unity plugin for Houdini Engine also out.

Friday, October 3rd, 2014

Crytek releases CryEngine on Steam for $9.90/month

Cutting-edge game engine now available to any dev for under a tenner - and no cut of the profits.

Friday, May 30th, 2014

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

Epic adds Mac OS support to Unreal Development Kit

Create games to play on MacBooks with the September 2011 UDK beta, or drive multiple displays from iOS.

Tuesday, September 20th, 2011