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Marcus Feenix and friends prepare for war
There's an unofficial PC port of Gears of War 2 based on a leaked build from 2008

By Jody Macgregor Published

News It's a rad world.

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Steve Allison speaking at State of Unreal 2024
Epic Games Store boss quits after 8 years to take up new role at Saber Interactive

By Andy Chalk Published

news Steve Allison launched Epic's storefront in 2018 and held the reins until earlier this month.

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The Hand Cannon in Fortnite.
Epic reaches lawsuit settlement with former contractor who was also a notorious Fortnite leaker

By Andy Chalk Published

news No more leaking for you!

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Former Unreal Engine director retires after 15 years at Epic

By Joshua Wolens Published

News Nicholas Penwarden joins Sjoerd De Jong at the Dunrealin' retirement home.

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Tim Sweeney speaking at Unreal Fest 2026.
Tim Sweeney on the future of games, AI, and whether Valve will ever join forces with Epic: 'It's now clear that nobody's going to end up with an absolute monopoly'

By Tim Clark Published

Interview The Epic Games CEO discusses his vision for "Team Open," his objections to Steam's AI disclosure requirement, and the huge problems facing AAA game development.

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Sjoerd De Jong
Former Unreal Engine 'lead evangelist' Sjoerd De Jong leaves Epic Games, says the industry is reaching a 'pivotal' moment that he must 'come to terms with'

By Justin Wagner Published

News "After 27 years of Unreal Engine, and 12 years at Epic Games and Unreal Engine I have decided to move on."

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A screenshot of the listing of most-played games on the Epic Games Store, as of January 2024.
Epic says the 'ground-up rebuild' of its launcher offers 5-6.5x improved performance, and the Epic Games Store is getting a big redesign

By Jacob Fox Published

News Slides out of Unreal Fest promise "5x faster cold start (average)" and "6.5x faster systray restore to library (average)" as Epic works on making its store suck less.

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A screenshot of the Epic Games Electric Dreams Environment demo for Unreal Engine 5.8, with Lumen Lite being used for global illumination and reflections
My quick test of Lumen Lite shows that it's probably good news for ray-traced gaming on handheld PCs, but I suspect that it will be used everywhere because of the pressure developers are now under

By Nick Evanson Published

Lite rays With studios being closed down faster than you can blink, every coder is going to be using one-click fixes.

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Lite rays
vampire survivors art
Hours after announcing a collab with Fortnite, Vampire Survivors dev suggests it may back out over Epic's touting of generative AI

By Tyler Colp Published

news Poncle is apparently reconsidering its Fortnite collab after seeing how Epic is using generative AI to help design Fortnite assets.

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A promotional image for the State of Unreal Chicago 2026 announcement for Unreal Engine 6
'[It] is going to change a lot about how games are made': Epic merges Unreal Engine 5 with Unreal Engine for Fortnite to give game devs around the world Unreal Engine 6

By Nick Evanson Published

News When two become one.

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