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 ...

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Unreal Engine 5 is now available to download, Epic Games announced on Tuesday. The latest edition of the benchmark games development engine touts a new “fully dynamic global illumination” tool, plus a ...

During its State of Unreal address at GDC 2023, Epic announced a wide-ranging suite of features for Unreal Engine 5.2. But perhaps the most important feature coming in the updated engine doesn’t ...

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Something to look forward to: The original Unreal was considered a technical landmark upon its release in 1998, popularizing the graphics engine that shares its name and powers many of today's most ...

The Hummer name evokes images of excessive, gas-guzzling, caricatures of the SUV craze that took over North America in the late 1990s and early 2000s. But the name was recently resurrected as the GMC ...

On a warm afternoon last fall, Steven Caron, a technical artist at the video-game company Quixel, stood at the edge of a redwood grove in the Oakland Hills. “Cross your eyes, kind of blur your eyes, ...