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Epic Games have just released a new set of tools aimed at making the lives of Blender users easier when working with Unreal Engine. The tools consist of two projects, Send to Unreal and UE to Rigify. Both are available on the Epic Games Github page, although you need to link your GitHub to your […]
Unreal Engine have just launched a new iPhone App called Live Link that enables real-time facial capture for Unreal Engine using an iPhone 10x or newer. The requirements are Unreal Engine 4.25 or higher as well as an iPhone with a “True Depth” front facing camera.Details of the App from the Apple App Store:Virtual production-ready […]
Epic Games, creators of the popular Fortnite series, as well as Unreal Engine, have just announced they have received a $250M investment from Sony, makers of the PlayStation consoles. It was announced in June that Epic Games were looking for investments valuing the company at 17B dollars. While this does not appear to be that […]
It’s the first Tuesday of the month, and that means it’s time for another Unreal Engine giveaway. Every month they give away several assets from the Unreal Engine marketplace, so long as you “purchase” them before the first Tuesday of the following month.This months free assets include:Meadow – Environment SetPhotorealistic Landscape Pack 3PSD2UMGSMART – ArchViz […]
Fanatical have several e-book bundles of interest to game developers and recently updated the Unreal Game Development Bundle to include several new books, making it an even better deal.The bundle now consists of:Visual Scripting for Unreal EngineUnreal Engine Physics EssentialsUnreal Engine 4 AI Programming EssentialsBuilding an RPG with Unreal 4.xUnreal Engine Game Development BlueprintsLearning Unreal […]
Reported on Venture Beat by respected games journalist Dean Takahashi, Epic Games are looking to raise an addition $750 million dollars, valuing Epic Games at an eye watering 17 BILLION dollars.Fortnite maker Epic Games is raising $750 million, according to two sources who spoke to GamesBeat. Bloomberg reported the news first, but we have independently […]
In a post-Covid world, Epic Games are joining the GDC conference in going online this summer. Unlike GDC however, Unreal Fest is completely free to attend!Details from the Unreal Website:Coming to you from the comfort of your own home on Tuesday, July 14, Unreal Fest Online is a free one-day virtual event that brings together […]
Epic Games have just announced the June 2020 free assets and this month is rather special. They are giving away the same assets as the very first Marketplace giveaway for those that missed them. For every asset creator however, there is an additional free asset in this pack, including two new permanently free assets as […]
Epic Games are running their Annual Unreal Engine Spring Marketplace sale. You can get a collection of 5000+ asset store items for up to 70% off, which 2k+ being at the maximum discounted amount.Details from the Unreal Engine blog:With up to 70% off more than 5,000 select Unreal Engine Marketplace products during the Spring Sale, […]
Announced back at GDC 2019, after a brief delay Epic Games Online Services are finally here. EOS provide all of the commonly needed networking components for game development, completely free. This includes tasks such as leaderboards, lobbies, matchmaking, storage, P2P and more. EOS provides the following services:Game Services deliver lobbies, matchmaking, peer-to-peer connectivity, player data […]
