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, it probably sounds like the blindingly ...

Epic Games has released Unreal Engine 5.7 with new features aimed at building and rendering large-scale, high-fidelity, and ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. I'm here to help you understand video games. This article is more than 10 years old. Epic’s new engine could halve production ...

Two years after Epic Games revealed Unreal Engine 5 with a gorgeous tech demo, the next-gen games engine is officially available. It's been released alongside a playable shooter, Lyra. Unreal Engine 5 ...

Epic Games demoed the cool lighting and shadow features of its Unreal Engine 5.2 game engine at the Game Developers Conference in San Francisco. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney and Unreal Engine leader ...

Having powered five of the ten most highly-rated games on Xbox 360, it's no exaggeration to suggest that the Epic Unreal Engine 3 middleware played a unique role in shaping the visual make-up of 21st ...

It's no secret that Epic Games has enabled a number of gaming studios to create more-realistic visuals with its Unreal game engine. Since its debut in 1998, powering the first-person shooter Unreal, ...

As a programmer, I thought the coolest moment of the whole demo was when he changed some code, recompiled while still ingame, and then the engine instantly changed to use the new value. All without ...