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Intriguing new tool lets you create or edit Unreal Engine MetaHuman characters directly inside Blender. Now available in beta.

Monday, March 31st, 2025

Check out the key artist features in the next version of the game engine, including support for Variable Rate Shading and better DX12 ray tracing.

Thursday, March 20th, 2025

Discover five key new features in the open-source game engine, including updates to shading, lighting, animation and physics.

Tuesday, March 4th, 2025

Check out upcoming features in the game engine, from rendering and simulation to Megaworlds biomes, next-gen terrain and Anim Next.

Tuesday, January 21st, 2025

Get free smoke and fire FX as 2K ProRes files or sequences of VDB files optimized for rendering in Blender. For commercial use.

Sunday, January 12th, 2025

Check out the neat new Sky Paint tools in the December 2024 update to the sky-creation tool for VFX, visualization and games work.

Friday, December 20th, 2024

Environment generation software gets highly multithreaded rendering, plus heightfield export to 16-bit TIFFs for Unity and Unreal Engine.

Friday, December 20th, 2024

Popular lightweight Blender fluid simulation add-on now lets you art direct simulations with guide curves. Check out the other new features.

Tuesday, December 17th, 2024

Game engine now imports meshes, materials, lights and animation in USD format, including in the free Community edition.

Monday, December 16th, 2024

Big update to the photogrammetry app adds USD export and new options aimed at games and VFX. Free to indie artists and studios.

Friday, November 22nd, 2024

Big update to the real-time terrain generator adds new snow and debris simulation tools, and changes pricing and licensing.

Tuesday, November 19th, 2024

Read our pick of the features in this huge update to the game engine, from MegaLights to character rigging, animation and rendering.

Thursday, November 14th, 2024

New 'open marketplace' replaces the Unreal Engine Marketplace and will replace the ArtStation and Sketchfab stores. Read our FAQs.

Tuesday, October 22nd, 2024