Eye candy: the GDC 2015 Unreal Engine sizzle reel

Watch a beautiful two-minute run-down of the work being created in UE4: from AAA titles to arch viz.

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015

Unreal Engine is now free

Epic Games removes $19/month fee for world-conquering engine. Pay only if your game is successful.

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2015

Unreal Engine 4.7 ships

Engine now publishes games in HTML5 format to play in a browser; better foliage rendering options.

Wednesday, February 25th, 2015

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.6

Latest update adds 'experimental' new 3D UI system, better emissive materials and character animation.

Thursday, December 4th, 2014

Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.5

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

Wednesday, October 15th, 2014

Epic makes Unreal Engine 4 free to students

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

Wednesday, October 8th, 2014

Video: see Frostbite and Unreal Engine 4 on iOS 8

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

Thursday, September 18th, 2014

Epic Games previews Unreal Engine 4.4

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

Monday, August 4th, 2014

Unreal Engine 4.3 throws in SpeedTree for free

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

Thursday, July 17th, 2014

Epic Games previews Unreal Engine 4.3

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

Thursday, July 10th, 2014

Epic Games unveils Unreal Engine 4.2

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

Tuesday, May 20th, 2014

Video: volume explosions in Unreal Engine 4

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

Wednesday, February 19th, 2014

See Unreal Engine 4 run on Nvidia's new Tegra K1

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

Monday, January 6th, 2014