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Unreal Fest 2023 livestream schedule now available!

Unreal Fest is now bigger and better! This year's joint event for both devs and creators features 200 new sessions over three packed days. Although we're now sold out, if you didn't get tickets you can still join us for 40 sessions streamed live from New Orleans, October 3–5.

Unreal Engine 5.3 is now available!

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September 6

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Unreal Engine 5.3 is now available!

This release brings numerous wide-ranging improvements, together with some exciting new Experimental features, as we continue to expand UE5’s functionality and potential for game developers and creators across industries. Find out what’s new.

Unreal Editor for Fortnite is now available in Public Beta!

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March 22

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Unreal Editor for Fortnite is now available in Public Beta!

Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) combines the power of Unreal Engine with the scale of Fortnite. Use development tools to build games and experiences that can be unlike anything seen in Fortnite so far and publish for millions of players to enjoy.

Inside the Medieval Game Environment, now updated for UE5

Tech Blog

September 26

Inside the Medieval Game Environment, now updated for UE5

Learn more about how we’ve updated the Medieval Game Environment to use the latest Unreal Engine features. Now available on the UE Marketplace.

Tech Blog

Inside the Medieval Game Environment, now updated for UE5

Learn more about how we’ve updated the Medieval Game Environment to use the latest Unreal Engine features. Now available on the UE Marketplace.

<em>Racing Master </em>brings authentic racing action and best-in-class graphics to mobile and other platforms

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September 21

Racing Master brings authentic racing action and best-in-class graphics to mobile and other platforms

The team behind Racing Master talks about its commitment to recreating the realistic feel of high-end sports cars and optimizing Unreal Engine for cross-platform games on mobile and game simulator on PC.

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Racing Master brings authentic racing action and best-in-class graphics to mobile and other platforms

<em>Tower of Fantasy</em> leverages Unreal Engine to bring open world action to mobile, PC, and PlayStation

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September 20

Tower of Fantasy leverages Unreal Engine to bring open world action to mobile, PC, and PlayStation

With Tower of Fantasy, Hotta Studio utilized the power of Unreal Engine to bring its debut title to iOS, Android, PC, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5.

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Tower of Fantasy leverages Unreal Engine to bring open world action to mobile, PC, and PlayStation

With Tower of Fantasy, Hotta Studio utilized the power of Unreal Engine to bring its debut title to iOS, Android, PC, PlayStation 4, and PlayStation 5.

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Behind the scenes on Blue Dot: MetaHuman Animator brings stunning fidelity to cinematics

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Behind the scenes on Blue Dot: MetaHuman Animator brings stunning fidelity to cinematics

The film shows how MetaHuman Animator unlocks the ability for teams to create cinematics of stunning fidelity and resonance by using a creative on-set process typical of traditional filmmaking to direct and capture a performance.

Behind the scenes on <em>Blue Dot</em>: MetaHuman Animator brings stunning fidelity to cinematics

How Odyssey Interactive launched live-service game <em>Omega Strikers </em>across mobile, console, and PC

How Odyssey Interactive launched live-service game Omega Strikers across mobile, console, and PC

Tech Blog

September 19

Tech Blog

How Odyssey Interactive launched live-service game Omega Strikers across mobile, console, and PC

Odyssey Interactive shares techniques and best practices used to release Omega Strikers on Android and iOS simultaneously with Console and PC.

<em>King Arthur: Legends Rise</em> leverages UE5 for future release on mobile and PC

King Arthur: Legends Rise leverages UE5 for future release on mobile and PC

Interview

September 18

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King Arthur: Legends Rise leverages UE5 for future release on mobile and PC

After its work on Marvel and Disney titles, Kabam is making its own universe with King Arthur: Legends Rise, a cinematic RPG reimagining of the Arthurian myth.

Free Unreal Fellowship: Animation course hits EDC (for a limited time)

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September 13

Free Unreal Fellowship: Animation course hits EDC (for a limited time)

Elevate your real-time animation skills with a free Unreal Fellowship: Animation course—September 13 - September 28. We’re unlocking over 35 hours of expert-led content, only shown before on an invite-only basis. Don't miss out!

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Free Unreal Fellowship: Animation course hits EDC (for a limited time)

<em>Fort Solis</em> uses Unreal Engine 5.2 to deliver an immersive martian experience

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September 7

Fort Solis uses Unreal Engine 5.2 to deliver an immersive martian experience

The Epic MegaGrant Recipient was inspired by the loneliness of the pandemic and paranoia of John Carpenter’s The Thing.

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Fort Solis uses Unreal Engine 5.2 to deliver an immersive martian experience

The Epic MegaGrant Recipient was inspired by the loneliness of the pandemic and paranoia of John Carpenter’s The Thing.

<em>Stray Gods</em> is a musical murder mystery RPG from a Bioware veteran

Interview

September 6

Stray Gods is a musical murder mystery RPG from a Bioware veteran

Summerfall Studios is spearheaded by David Gaider, who worked on acclaimed games such as Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Dragon Age: Origins, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.

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Stray Gods is a musical murder mystery RPG from a Bioware veteran

Summerfall Studios is spearheaded by David Gaider, who worked on acclaimed games such as Baldur's Gate II: Shadows of Amn, Dragon Age: Origins, and Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic.

<em>Pacific Drive</em> is a run-based driving survival game with an ever changing, mysterious landscape

Pacific Drive is a run-based driving survival game with an ever changing, mysterious landscape

Interview

September 5

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Pacific Drive is a run-based driving survival game with an ever changing, mysterious landscape

Ironwood Studios talks about the production realities of development with a small team, nailing the feel of driving survival, and how Unreal Engine helped the studio fill out its anomalous portrayal of the Pacific Northwest.

Featured free Unreal Marketplace content—September 2023

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September 5

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Featured free Unreal Marketplace content—September 2023

This month’s free 3D asset drop includes an NPC-friendly quest editor, a Lumen-infused archviz apartment, a safe house, a melee system, and more. See what strikes your fancy inside!

Unreal Developer Roundtable: Taking AAA to indie -- how small teams are making big games

Interview

September 4

Unreal Developer Roundtable: Taking AAA to indie -- how small teams are making big games

In our first Unreal Developer Roundtable, we invited three former devs who worked in the AAA space (David Gaider, James Tinsdale, and Alex Dracott) and talked about how they branched out to form their own indie studios.

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Unreal Developer Roundtable: Taking AAA to indie -- how small teams are making big games

Two high school friends used Unreal Engine 5.1 to create atmospheric retro shooter <em>Kvark</em>

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August 30

Two high school friends used Unreal Engine 5.1 to create atmospheric retro shooter Kvark

Pixelated, low-poly shooter Kvark drops players into a fictional ‘80s mining facility.

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Two high school friends used Unreal Engine 5.1 to create atmospheric retro shooter Kvark

Pixelated, low-poly shooter Kvark drops players into a fictional ‘80s mining facility.

<em>Lies of P</em> takes inspiration from Pinocchio, French history, and marries them with Soulslike combat

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August 29

Lies of P takes inspiration from Pinocchio, French history, and marries them with Soulslike combat

NEOWIZ Games and Round8 Studio explain how they took inspiration from Pinocchio to deliver a fierce third-person action game.

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Lies of P takes inspiration from Pinocchio, French history, and marries them with Soulslike combat

NEOWIZ Games and Round8 Studio explain how they took inspiration from Pinocchio to deliver a fierce third-person action game.

Anniversary Marketplace Sale: over 1,700 products—now 50% off

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August 29

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Anniversary Marketplace Sale: over 1,700 products—now 50% off

There’s all kinds of great products to choose from this month. Click now to see some of our personal favorites and explore the sale today.

Incoming 2023 Epic MegaJam–Register Now!

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August 28

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Incoming 2023 Epic MegaJam–Register Now!

The time for the 2023 Epic MegaJam is almost upon us! Our next annual game jam event will kick off on September 14 at 2 PM EDT, with Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) submissions accepted for the first time ever!

<em>The Plucky Squir</em>e blends 2D and 3D visuals in aesthetically pleasing and mechanically interesting ways

Interview

August 23

The Plucky Squire blends 2D and 3D visuals in aesthetically pleasing and mechanically interesting ways

All Possible Futures started when two developers who worked on Nintendo games got together.

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The Plucky Squire blends 2D and 3D visuals in aesthetically pleasing and mechanically interesting ways

All Possible Futures started when two developers who worked on Nintendo games got together.

<em>Octopath Traveler II</em> builds a bigger, bolder world in its stunning HD-2D style

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August 22

Octopath Traveler II builds a bigger, bolder world in its stunning HD-2D style

Square Enix and Acquire talk about how Unreal Engine helped them revisit and expand the world of Octopath Traveler in this sequel.

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Octopath Traveler II builds a bigger, bolder world in its stunning HD-2D style

Square Enix and Acquire talk about how Unreal Engine helped them revisit and expand the world of Octopath Traveler in this sequel.

Women Creators Program 2023: Create your first experience in Fortnite with UEFN!

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August 21

Women Creators Program 2023: Create your first experience in Fortnite with UEFN!

This year, the Women Creators Program is teaching 100 creatives how to build cross-platform experiences in UEFN, opening up the massive reach of Fortnite to women across India, Pakistan, Southeast Asia, the Middle East, and Africa. Learn more inside!

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Women Creators Program 2023: Create your first experience in Fortnite with UEFN!

Over 40 Unreal Engine-powered games highlighted during recent summer events

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August 17

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Over 40 Unreal Engine-powered games highlighted during recent summer events

Join us as we roundup all of the excellent Unreal Engine games announced during several Summer showcase events, including surprising reveals and new trailers.

How the three-person team behind <em>Laysara: Summit Kingdom</em> found a new spin on city-builders

How the three-person team behind Laysara: Summit Kingdom found a new spin on city-builders

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August 15

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How the three-person team behind Laysara: Summit Kingdom found a new spin on city-builders

Quite OK Games, the indie studio behind mountainside city builder Laysara: Summit Kingdom, talks about how Unreal Engine and other tools keep it ahead of the game development avalanche.

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Award-winning short film The Voice in the Hollow takes real-time animation to dark places

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Award-winning short film The Voice in the Hollow takes real-time animation to dark places

The Voice in the Hollow reimagines the Cain and Abel story as a fantastical African-inspired movie short created by a small team of professionals, blending real-time 3D, 2D elements, and motion capture.

Award-winning short film <em>The Voice in the Hollow</em> takes real-time animation to dark places

How KeelWorks moved from animation to game dev to create <em>CYGNI: All Guns Blazing</em>

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August 9

How KeelWorks moved from animation to game dev to create CYGNI: All Guns Blazing

CYGNI: All Guns Blazing represents an amazing journey for KeelWorks, with one founder making the transition from working at Pixar to creating a blistering shoot ‘em up experience.

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How KeelWorks moved from animation to game dev to create CYGNI: All Guns Blazing

CYGNI: All Guns Blazing represents an amazing journey for KeelWorks, with one founder making the transition from working at Pixar to creating a blistering shoot ‘em up experience.

Why Avalanche worked to deliver a <em>Hogwarts </em>game with soul

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August 8

Why Avalanche worked to deliver a Hogwarts game with soul

The record-breaking Hogwarts Legacy is the product of a leap from in-house game dev tools to Unreal Engine.

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Why Avalanche worked to deliver a Hogwarts game with soul

The record-breaking Hogwarts Legacy is the product of a leap from in-house game dev tools to Unreal Engine.

Unreal Engine powers stylish stellar mystery <em>The Invincible</em>

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August 2

Unreal Engine powers stylish stellar mystery The Invincible

The Invincible is the first video game adaptation of a book by prolific influential sci-fi author Stanisław Lem.

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Unreal Engine powers stylish stellar mystery The Invincible

The Invincible is the first video game adaptation of a book by prolific influential sci-fi author Stanisław Lem.

Featured free Unreal Marketplace content—August 2023

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August 1

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Featured free Unreal Marketplace content—August 2023

Need a fully stocked pirate ship? A modular building creator with some Italian flair? Maybe enough coral to start your own reef? Find all that and more in this month's free asset drop.

August Marketplace Sale: over 1,800 products—now 50% off

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August 1

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August Marketplace Sale: over 1,800 products—now 50% off

There’s all kinds of great products to choose from this month. Click now to see some of our personal favorites and explore the sale today.

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July 27

Cropout Sample Project

Cropout is a sample top-down Casual RTS game that demonstrates all the best practices for building a project designed for cross-platform release. Find out more and download it today!

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Cropout Sample Project

Cropout is a sample top-down Casual RTS game that demonstrates all the best practices for building a project designed for cross-platform release. Find out more and download it today!

<em>Born of Bread</em> is a <em>Paper Mario</em>-inspired RPG made entirely with Blueprints

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July 25

Born of Bread is a Paper Mario-inspired RPG made entirely with Blueprints

Born of Bread is 100 percent built through Unreal Engine’s Blueprints.

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Born of Bread is a Paper Mario-inspired RPG made entirely with Blueprints

Born of Bread is 100 percent built through Unreal Engine’s Blueprints.

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July 20

Epic Games at SIGGRAPH 2023

SIGGRAPH 2023 is coming up! Register for the event and join us for sessions that explore how tools like Unreal Engine, Quixel Megascans, and Twinmotion are changing the game for film, TV, and animation.

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Epic Games at SIGGRAPH 2023

<em>The Devil Within: Satgat</em> is a Metroidvania with fighting game inspiration

The Devil Within: Satgat is a Metroidvania with fighting game inspiration

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July 19

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The Devil Within: Satgat is a Metroidvania with fighting game inspiration

Newcore Games explains how it brought together the fast-paced combos of a fighting game, the vast interconnected world of a Metroidvania, and a unique mystical and cybernetic aesthetic to create The Devil Within: Satgat.

Why a team of nine switched to Unreal Engine to deliver visually stunning action game <em>Strayed Lights</em>

Why a team of nine switched to Unreal Engine to deliver visually stunning action game Strayed Lights

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July 12

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Why a team of nine switched to Unreal Engine to deliver visually stunning action game Strayed Lights

How an small indie team crafted the otherworldly vision for its first game.

Featured free Unreal Marketplace content—July 2023

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July 4

Featured free Unreal Marketplace content—July 2023

Take a look at this month’s free Unreal Marketplace content, featuring a captivating bazaar, an office crafted with Brutalist architecture, a fearless goblin warrior, and more.

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Featured free Unreal Marketplace content—July 2023

Take a look at this month’s free Unreal Marketplace content, featuring a captivating bazaar, an office crafted with Brutalist architecture, a fearless goblin warrior, and more.

How Unreal Engine empowered a small team to build <em>Luna Abyss</em>’ beautiful bullet hell prison

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June 30

How Unreal Engine empowered a small team to build Luna Abyss’ beautiful bullet hell prison

Bonsai Collective talks about the manga inspiration behind Luna Abyss, bringing “bullet hell” into first-person, and how Unreal Engine helped them craft a vast prison players must escape from.

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How Unreal Engine empowered a small team to build Luna Abyss’ beautiful bullet hell prison

Bonsai Collective talks about the manga inspiration behind Luna Abyss, bringing “bullet hell” into first-person, and how Unreal Engine helped them craft a vast prison players must escape from.

Winning Epic’s MegaJam was the spark that ignited the creation of UE5-powered platformer <em>Boti: Byteland Overclocked</em>

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June 29

Winning Epic’s MegaJam was the spark that ignited the creation of UE5-powered platformer Boti: Byteland Overclocked

Unreal Engine 5’s Lumen empowered the team’s work to create stunning visuals of the colorful world inside a computer.

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Winning Epic’s MegaJam was the spark that ignited the creation of UE5-powered platformer Boti: Byteland Overclocked

Unreal Engine 5’s Lumen empowered the team’s work to create stunning visuals of the colorful world inside a computer.

<em>Two Falls </em>represents two different cultures with contrasting art styles

Two Falls represents two different cultures with contrasting art styles

Interview

June 28

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Two Falls represents two different cultures with contrasting art styles

Developer Unreliable Narrators talks about how it collaborated with authentic sources to craft Two Falls’ engaging tale of French and Indigenous cultures meeting for the first time.

Inside <em>Kingdoms Reborn</em>’s game dev’s journey of discovery and city building

Inside Kingdoms Reborn’s game dev’s journey of discovery and city building

Interview

June 27

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Inside Kingdoms Reborn’s game dev’s journey of discovery and city building

Unreal Engine’s performance prioritization helped fuel Kingdom’s Reborn’s creation.

Spotlight

Step into Nike’s virtual sneaker hunt Airphoria built using UEFN

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Step into Nike’s virtual sneaker hunt Airphoria built using UEFN

When Nike set out to reach the next generation of gamers, the brand dreamed up a virtual sneaker hunt inspired by the iconic Nike Air Max shoe. Find out how Unreal Editor for Fortnite helped the team turn its vision into reality.

Step into Nike’s virtual sneaker hunt <em>Airphoria </em>built using UEFN

<em>Norse </em>is a tactical Viking game that taps into many aspects of Unreal Engine 5’s ecosystem

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June 26

Norse is a tactical Viking game that taps into many aspects of Unreal Engine 5’s ecosystem

Located in Norway, studio Arctic Hazard leans on its local history to develop Norse, a MegaGrant recipient and turn-based tactical adventure that utilizes UE5, Quixel Megascans, and MetaHumans for its lush, realistic visuals.

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Norse is a tactical Viking game that taps into many aspects of Unreal Engine 5’s ecosystem

June Marketplace Sale: over 1,500 products—now 50% off

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June 20

June Marketplace Sale: over 1,500 products—now 50% off

There’s all kinds of great products to choose from this month. Click now to see some of our personal favorites and explore the sale today.

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June Marketplace Sale: over 1,500 products—now 50% off

There’s all kinds of great products to choose from this month. Click now to see some of our personal favorites and explore the sale today.

<em>Electric Dreams</em> Environment Sample Project

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June 20

Electric Dreams Environment Sample Project

At this year's State of Unreal at GDC, we offered a first look at an Experimental new Procedural Content Generation feature and more in a demo entitled Electric Dreams. Now, you can get the complete environment from the demo as a free sample project.

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Electric Dreams Environment Sample Project

RealityScan is now available for Android devices!

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June 20

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RealityScan is now available for Android devices!

We’re pleased to announce that RealityScan is now available for Android as well as iOS devices, putting this powerful, free-to-download photogrammetry application into the hands of almost anyone with a modern smartphone or tablet.

Delivering high-quality facial animation in minutes, MetaHuman Animator is now available!

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June 15

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Delivering high-quality facial animation in minutes, MetaHuman Animator is now available!

Capture a facial performance for your digital human using just an iPhone and a PC and turn it into facial animation for your MetaHuman in minutes. Fast, easy, and cost-effective, MetaHuman Animator unlocks facial performance capture for all creators.

White paper: Reducing<em> Fortnite</em>’s power consumption

White paper: Reducing Fortnite’s power consumption

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June 13

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White paper: Reducing Fortnite’s power consumption

Learn how we cut energy costs for players by reducing Fortnite’s energy consumption, and get tips, recommendations, and code examples that you can use to bring these energy savings to your own game.

<em>Layers of Fear</em> reimagines horror with Unreal Engine 5

Layers of Fear reimagines horror with Unreal Engine 5

Interview

June 9

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Layers of Fear reimagines horror with Unreal Engine 5

The new Layers of Fear recreates both original titles and all DLC in the franchise with some new twists, all recreated using Unreal Engine 5.

UEFN: The power of UE for Fortnite