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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'
News "After 27 years of Unreal Engine, and 12 years at Epic Games and Unreal Engine I have decided to move on."
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
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.
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
Lite rays With studios being closed down faster than you can blink, every coder is going to be using one-click fixes.
Hours after announcing a collab with Fortnite, Vampire Survivors dev suggests it may back out over Epic's touting of generative AI
news Poncle is apparently reconsidering its Fortnite collab after seeing how Epic is using generative AI to help design Fortnite assets.
'[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
News When two become one.
'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
news As the AAA model falters, Sweeney wants developers to build a "global ecosystem" of Unreal Engine games to rival Roblox.
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
News Plus a whole heap more stuff that's genuinely useful for all kinds of devs.
The UK government is considering banning children from speaking to strangers in games like Fortnite and Roblox
News The UK's online safety minister is concerned about 'stranger pairing' in games.
