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 ...

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.

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.

As impressive as the technology of the Unreal Engine 4 is, Epic Games’ first demonstration of this new tech is geared toward professional video game creators, not gamers.

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.

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 their games.

Microsoft has now added support for making Unreal Engine 4 games on the UWP Windows 10 platform. The code is now available for all Unreal Engine 4 licensees.

Unreal Engine 4, the latest version of the game engine developed by Epic Games, is now completely free for anyone to use, the company announced today. Epic originally launched Unreal Engine 4 in ...