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Check out the top Fortnite islands from the UEFN Student Bootcamp

Fri, 16 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

The UEFN Student Bootcamp has wrapped! Watch this sizzle reel of some of the best Fortnite islands created during this intensive three-week course, which was completed by over 300 students.

SILENT HILL: Townfall delivers haunting psychological horror at its very best with UE5

Thu, 15 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Discover how UE5 tools including Lumen, Nanite, and MetaHuman helped Screen Burn Interactive craft complex, beautifully rendered scenes and compelling characters for chilling, slow-burn survival horror SILENT HILL: Townfall.

UEFN Professional Bootcamp: Prepare for Unreal Engine 6

Wed, 14 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

With Epic’s roadmap bringing together Unreal Engine and UEFN in UE6, build your UEFN skills with our free UEFN Professional Bootcamp for games industry pros. Register today to create and publish a playable Fortnite island and strengthen your portfolio.

Fuse Games uses UE5 to make a fast and authentic Star Wars™ racing game

Tue, 13 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Star Wars: Galactic Racer™ blends high-speed racing with a roguelite twist. Discover how Fuse Games used Unreal Engine 5’s Lumen, Nanite, and World Partition to create striking visuals that do justice to the game’s innovative gameplay and worldbuilding.

Gears of War: E-Day sees a return to dark, survival-horror roots with UE5

Thu, 01 Oct 2026 00:00:00 GMT

With the latest major main-series installment of Gears of War about to drop, we caught up with The Coalition to find out how UE5 helped recapture the desperate “destroyed beauty” aesthetic of the original games—while evolving gameplay, animation, and more.

September’s Epic learning content: MetaHumans, physics, animation, and more

Wed, 30 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Check out this month’s free learning resources, including an exploration of the MetaHuman Animator Markerless Motion Capture plugin, a journey into UE 5.8’s MCP server, a look at the new Experimental AnimGen workflow—and much more.

TT Games brings Gotham City to life in LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight

Mon, 21 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMT

We caught up with TT Games to find out how UE5 features such as World Partition, the Gameplay Ability System, and more helped them fulfill their vision for an open world Gotham City in LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight.

Unreal Engine 5.8 is now available

Tue, 23 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

Build bigger, better, more differentiated worlds in less time; easily populate them with high-fidelity animated characters and custom vegetation; and light and render them at the speed and quality your audiences demand.

The road to Unreal Engine 6

Mon, 22 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

We have started the road to UE6, where Unreal Engine and UEFN will come together into a single, unified engine. Read more about our vision, transition plans, and timeline.

State of Unreal 2026: Top news from the show

Wed, 17 Jun 2026 00:00:00 GMT

At State of Unreal 2026, we shared our vision for Unreal Engine 6, released Unreal Engine 5.8, open-sourced the next-generation version control system Lore, highlighted UEFN’s growing developer ecosystem, and previewed improvements to the Epic Games Store. Learn more here.