“Fortnite” creator Epic Games kicked off its Unreal Fest event Tuesday with the debut of Unreal Engine 5.5 and previews for new features of the massively popular video-game-building tool. Used to ...

Epic Games today released Unreal Engine 5.4, packed with new features and improvements to performance, visual fidelity, and productivity that will benefit a lot of people across a lot industries.

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 ...

Unreal Engine 5 brings two key features which stand to radically improve the realism of both 3D geometry and lighting. While the features aren’t yet fully optimized for VR, early developer experiments ...

TL;DR: Unreal Engine 5 revolutionized game development with advanced technologies like Lumen and Nanite, but many UE5-powered games in 2025 face performance and optimization issues across platforms.

“When I started at Epic 10 and a half years ago, there was a big void between the way you would create content for a game versus a movie,” Epic Games chief technology officer Kim Libreri (the VFX ...