Eye candy: the new Unreal Engine next-gen games reel

Check out the gorgeous Unreal Engine 4 and 5 titles due out for PS5 and Xbox Series X in 2021.

Monday, January 4th, 2021

10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.26

Read our pick of the new features, from water and volumetric clouds to Booleans and GPU lightmapping.

Friday, December 4th, 2020

Get Quixel's free Megascans plugin for Unreal Engine

Version 6.3 of the free plugin adds neat new vertex blend material, better LOD export for 3D plants.

Wednesday, October 14th, 2020

Nuke and Unreal Engine win 2020 tech Emmy Awards

Compositing app and virtual-set-powering game engine honored for their impact on the TV industry.

Monday, October 12th, 2020

Epic Games will pay you $10,000 to learn Unreal Engine

New Unreal Fellowship program will pay VFX and games pros to do four weeks of online UE4 training.

Tuesday, July 21st, 2020

Epic Games releases official Blender to Unreal Engine tools

Transfer rigged characters between Blender and UE4 with free plugins Send to Unreal and UE to Rigify.

Wednesday, July 15th, 2020

Get 150+ free automotive materials for Unreal Engine

Download free car paint, metal and glass materials optimised for the new features in Unreal Engine.

Sunday, June 21st, 2020

AMD releases Radeon ProRender for Unreal Engine

Free plugin enables GPU path tracing and 'full spectrum rendering' in UE4 on AMD GPUs.

Saturday, May 16th, 2020

Watch Epic Games' amazing new Unreal Engine 5 demo

See the gorgeous Lumen in the Land of Nanite UE5 demo, running in real time on a PlayStation 5.

Thursday, May 14th, 2020

Epic Games unveils Unreal Engine 5

Amazing next-gen update to the game engine promises dynamic GI - and the end of polygon budgets.

Wednesday, May 13th, 2020

10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.25

See the best new tools in the game engine and real-time renderer - from new ray traced materials to LIDAR support.

Wednesday, May 6th, 2020

10 key features for CG artists from Unreal Engine 4.24

See the best new tools in the game engine and real-time renderer - from landscape editing to 3D text.

Sunday, December 15th, 2019

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.23

Game engine gets eagerly anticipated Chaos destruction physics toolset, new virtual production tools.

Wednesday, September 4th, 2019