Unreal Engine 5 News and Articles

Unreal Engine 5.3 is available for download, eyes next-gen games

Unreal Engine 5.3 brings refinements geared towards improving 60 fps next-gen console games, adds new features, and introduces experimental ones like cinematic-quality volumetric rendering and a new skeletal editor.

By Erik Orejuela, September 6, 2023, 10:19 PM

Gaming Software

You can now animate Epic's ultra realistic MetaHumans with an iPhone camera capture

Forward-looking: Epic Games first unveiled a tool to let developers perform facial capture with a consumer smartphone in 2020. The following year, it unveiled software for efficiently designing realistic human characters. Now, the company has combined the two technologies to hopefully lower the barrier of entry for building and animating highly detailed 3D scenes.

Full story By Daniel Sims, June 15, 2023, 5:36 PM

Gaming

'Layers of Fear' offers another early taste of Unreal Engine 5, PC demo now available

Demo available until May 22, game launches June 15

By Daniel Sims, May 16, 2023, 4:46 PM

Gaming

One of the first commercial Unreal Engine 5 games, Immortals of Aveum, requires an RTX 2080 Super at minimum

One of the first publicly available implementations of Lumen and Nanite

By Daniel Sims, April 21, 2023, 8:44 AM 21 comments

Gaming

Unreal Engine 5 game "Unrecord" demos stunningly realistic bodycam graphics

A few tricks compensate for the usual FPS graphics flaws

By Daniel Sims, April 21, 2023, 6:15 AM 27 comments

Gaming

Epic Games adds Unreal Engine 5.1 graphical fidelity to Fortnite

Developers included support for Lumen, Nanite, Virtual Shadow Maps, and Temporal Super Resolution

By Cal Jeffrey, December 6, 2022, 5:03 PM 7 comments

Gaming Software

Epic says over half of all announced console games use Unreal Engine

Plus Unreal Engine 5.1 adds a ton of features and quality-of-life improvements

By Cal Jeffrey, November 16, 2022, 3:03 PM 12 comments

A Look at the Possible Future of 3D Graphics: How More Real Than Real Can You Get?

FEATURE By Nick Evanson, October 3, 2022, 6:03 AM TechSpot Tech Culture

With CPUs and GPUs continuing to get more powerful with each new generation, the push for ever more realistic graphics in blockbuster games shows no signs of slowing down. Today's best-looking titles already look stunning, so how much better can they possibly get? Join us as we take a look at what awaits us in the future of 3D graphics.