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.

Putting Unreal Engine in the classroom MCV Staff 4th September 2014 Development News Today, Epic Games has announced that Unreal Engine 4 is now available for free to universities and schools.

Epic’s new engine could halve production costs, lower the prices of games, and spur détente between developers and consumers. From anyone who has seen Epic’s “Elemental” demo of Unreal ...

At a GDC 2014 press briefing today, Epic founder Tim Sweeney announced that Unreal Engine 4 is now available for game development, but not just for big studios. Access to the binary development ...

Epic Games continues its expansion with Unreal Engine 4, with over 2 million developers using UE4.

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.