If you've ever wanted to get to grips with the engine which is at the heart of some of each year's biggest releases, the Unreal Engine, you may have been put off by the daunting size of the thing.

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Epic has just announced that its game development engine, Unreal Engine 4, is now free for everyone to download. This is a radical change from its $19/month subscription and is quite a welcome one ...

We're fast approaching a time when the weirdly shiny Unreal Engine 3 will no longer be used in big-budget releases, and thanks to a new initiative by Epic Games, the same thing may soon be true of ...

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 March ...

Unreal Tournament is coming back. Developer Epic Games revealed today that the multiplayer shooter's next incarnation — in development in Unreal Engine 4 for Linux, Mac and Windows PC and called ...

Effective immediately, Epic Games' Unreal Engine 4--one of the most widely-used development toolsets--is now available to developers everywhere for free. Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney announced the ...

Last year, Unreal Engine 4 switched to a $19/month subscription plan. It was the first in a couple of attempts to coax indie developers away from Unity—and CryEngine announced their own low cost ...