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.

A couple of months ago a game developer who works on a very well-known video game walked out of a secret demonstration of Epic Games’ new Unreal Engine 4 and told ...

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"I light my level by dropping a sun in." That statement from Epic Games' Senior Technical Artist and Level Designer Alan Willard doesn't seem like such a big deal on the surface. To a non-programmer, ...

Please verify your email address. Epic Games has just announced that they are releasing their full Unreal Engine 4 and its source code to everyone. For $19 a month anyone can use the engine to power ...

Unreal Engine 3 set the standard for games last generation, powering breakout franchises like Gears of War and Mass Effect. We don't know if Unreal Engine 4 will have the same impact, but today's move ...

At the 2014 Game Developers Conference, Epic Games' Tim Sweeney announces that one of the most powerful engines in game design is now widely available. Nick Statt was a staff reporter for CNET News ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Microsoft has now added support for making Unreal Engine 4 games on the UWP Windows 10 platform.