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Bad news for those using Unreal Engine for VFX or animation this week – or at least for some. Epic Games has confirmed that it will begin charging industries outside gaming to use the 3D graphics ...

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 ...

GDC hasn’t even officially started and already there’s huge news for the game development community: Epic’s esteemed Unreal Engine is now completely free. Last year it was already surprising when Epic ...

My Paper Forest shuns the 'Unreal Engine look' with its hand-drawn textures.

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 ...

This week Unreal Engine 4 became free. Free up front, that is to say – Epic Games ask that you share some of your revenue once you've made over $3,000 on whatever you make with their engine. Once you ...

When Unreal Engine 4 was announced, the price was a big surprise. An engine that can be used to develop AAA games for a monthly cost that wasn't much more expensive than a broadband bill. Epic's ...