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What is Unreal Engine 5? Everything you need to know

You've surely heard about it, but what is Unreal Engine 5, exactly? Well, in this Unreal Engine explainer, we'll answer exactly that and bring you up to speed with everything you need to know about ...
TweakTown

Epic Games shows off new Unreal Engine 5.5 feature 'MegaLights' but the video is in 720p

Unreal Engine 5.5 has some exciting new rendering improvements, with Nanite now capable of rendering Skeletal Meshes incredibly fast says Epic Games (which is currently an Experimental feature) and ...
Forbes

It’s A New Era For ‘Halo,’ Again, As It Moves To Unreal Engine 5

Microsoft has been curiously silent about the future of Halo for a long while now, even as it has detailed its other exclusive titles and brought back classic series like Gears of War. But now we know ...
Gameranx

Unreal Engine 5: How It’s Reshaping the Next Generation of Games

Picture, if you would, the very first video games that were ever made. We’re talking old-school arcades and early Atari titles. Think about what it was like to not only play them, but what it was like ...
TweakTown

Unreal Engine 5.4-powered The Matrix Awakens demo: huge 40% CPU perf increase over UE5.0 build

Unreal Engine 5.4 delivers massive CPU and GPU performance improvements over the initial UE5.0 release, with The Matrix Awakens tech demo enjoying a healthy 40% upgrade in CPU performance when powered ...
PC Gamer

Unreal Engine 5.5’s MegaLights allows devs to use "orders of magnitude more" light sources—even on older hardware

Ray tracing has been a revolution, and it’s steadily becoming the norm for triple-A games. To put it another way, it’s lighting tech you definitely feel the absence of should a rogue update take away ...
The Escapist

What Other RPGs Were Built With Avowed’s Game Engine, Unreal Engine 5?

Lords of The Fallen is a fantasy-action RPG released in October 2013. In this game, you play as a Dark Crusader, travelling through both the land of the living and the dead on a quest to defeat the ...
Game Rant

Valorant Moving to Unreal Engine 5 and Teases 'New Playable Experiences'

Raul is a freelance writer with four years of writing and editing experience in games journalism. Currently, he is a News Writer at Game Rant and the Managing Editor of Final Weapon, a Japanese gaming ...
PCGamesN

Unreal Engine 5 performance problems are developers' fault, not ours, says Epic

Unreal Engine 5 performance issues aren't the fault of Epic, but instead down to developers prioritising "top-tier hardware," says CEO of Epic, Tim Sweeney. This misplaced focus ultimately leaves ...
PC Gamer

Stutters and hitches in Unreal Engine 5 games should become rarer over time due to Epic's continuous updates, but we'll still see them for a while because of the way games are made

Yes, I know I sound like a stuck record here, but it's really not the engine that's at fault. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Add ...
Gameranx

Is Borderlands 4 Another “Victim” Of Unreal 5?

It’s possible Epic shoulders some responsibility for this as much as the developers of these games. Many studios build for top-tier hardware first and leave optimization and low-spec testing for the ...