What do games like Gears of War, Mass Effect, and XCOM have in common? Besides their shared objective of blowing aliens to bits with great big laser guns, they are all built with the Unreal Engine 4.

Code Vein will run on Epic’s Unreal Engine 4. Publisher Bandai Namco teased the project last week in a trailer. It’ll make a formal announcement of Code Vein on April 20.

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. At a GDC 2014 press briefing today, Epic founder Tim Sweeney announced that Unreal Engine 4 ...

Epic also is releasing the source code of the Unreal Engine 4 in the hopes that it will foster a community of tinkering and manipulating and user development. "The source code is Epic's crown jewel.

Code Vein is being made with Unreal Engine 4. They can’t share a clear answer for which hardware it is being made for, but they plan to release it on console.

Does Unreal Engine do anything to counter this? With UE4 we also include the entire C++ source code for the engine alongside the premade toolsets, which gives students the best of both worlds.

In early 2014, we took the step of making Unreal Engine 4 available to everyone by subscription for $19 per month. We put all of our source code online, available to all who signed up.