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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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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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Tim Sweeney
'It feels to many like a tidal wave is sweeping over the AAA game business,' says Epic CEO Tim Sweeney in his diagnosis of the industry's woes

By Tyler Wilde Published

news As the AAA model falters, Sweeney wants developers to build a "global ecosystem" of Unreal Engine games to rival Roblox.

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A screenshot of Epic's YouTube video showcasing some of the features of Unreal Engine 5.8
Unreal Engine 5.8 launches with improved terrain and vegetation tools, a Lumen Lite option for faster global illumination, and for the times we now live in, an open standard plugin for LLM systems

By Nick Evanson Published

News Plus a whole heap more stuff that's genuinely useful for all kinds of devs.

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TOPSHOT - Britain's Prime Minister Keir Starmer leaves 10 Downing Street in central London on December 10, 2025, to take part in the weekly session of Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs). (Photo by Ben STANSALL / AFP via Getty Images)
The UK government is considering banning children from speaking to strangers in games like Fortnite and Roblox

By Rick Lane Published

News The UK's online safety minister is concerned about 'stranger pairing' in games.

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Shadow of the Colossus and Ico creator Fumito Ueda's next game will let us pilot a giant robot head to take over mech bodies

By Ted Litchfield Published

news I'm down for desolate, colossal robots.

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Tim Sweeney
Tim Sweeney takes swipes at Valve for Steam Deck price hike, blames it on the 'component parts supply chain for megayachts'

By James Bentley Published

News Maybe Sweeney isn't the best person to make this point.

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