Yesterday, the award ceremony for the winners of the WN Dev Contest took place — a large-scale competition for European developers, which was organized by the WN Conference with the active support of Unreal Engine and the Reboot Develop conference. We tell you about all the winners. Drake’s Survival Odds: Survive and the adventure game Tchia received the most awards.

It became known about a new large-scale competition for game developers. This time it is held by WN Conference with the active support of Unreal Engine and the Reboot Development conference.

The second nationwide competition of game developers for Unreal Engine 4 has started. Epic Games is holding it together with our colleagues from Disgusting Men. The winners are promised grants from $5,000 to $100,000.

In recent years, teams from Russia have increasingly chosen Unreal Engine to work. We tried to figure out why this is happening, how great is the demand for Unreal developers, what kind of specialists the market needs and how much they are willing to pay.

The authors of World of Tanks announced the launch of a new structure. It’s called Wargaming Nexus. In her area of priorities — assistance in the development of mobile games on Unreal Engine 4.

Epic Games distributes Twinmotion software based on Unreal Engine 4 for free. The developer purchased the software from Abvent.

At GDC 2019, Epic Games announced the launch of the Epic MegaGrants investment program. As part of it, she is going to financially support the Unreal Engine user community. In total, the company is going to invest $ 100 million in teams.

Studio krem.productions shared the experience of creating a cinematic trailer for the game using Unreal Engine 4.

Wargaming UK has absorbed the British studio Edge Case Games. Thus, the British staff of the creator of World of Tanks has been replenished with 32 new employees.

The authors of Unreal Engine continue to aggressively promote their engine. Their new step in popularizing the tool among developers is the launch of a website with free courses on it.

The other day Epic Games introduced an updated version of the Unreal Engine. Its serial number is 4.20. Among the key innovations: mobile optimization, the appearance of Proxy LOD and support for realistic depth of field.

Epic Games turns into a rich kind uncle. The company has changed the terms of payments in its asset store. Instead of the standard 70%, it now pays 88% to content authors from each purchase.

The winners of the Unreal Dev Grants program, which is conducted by Epic Games to support developers working on the Unreal engine, have been determined. $1 million was distributed among 37 teams. Among the grant recipients are the Moscow studio Mundfish and its Atomic Heart project.

Epic Games has launched a joint program with the Interactive Gaming Ventures investment fund — indie developers making games on the Unreal Engine 4 engine will be able to receive up to $5 million from the fund.

As part of White Nights Prague 2018, Sjoerd De Jong from Epic Games demonstrated how it is possible to quickly create a cinematic video on the Unreal Engine.

On March 19, Epic Games took a very generous step. The company has opened free access to all developers on Unreal Engine 4 to the graphical assets of Paragon. The developer decided to close the latter this winter against the background of the success of his other project – Fortnite.

Epic Games has released a version of the Unreal Engine 4.19 game engine. It contains a number of new features that simplify the creation of AR applications, offer additional options for adjusting image detail and contain many other features.

Epic Games summed up the results of the Unreal Dev Grants grant competition, in which 13 developers of games and content on the Unreal Engine shared more than $200 thousand among themselves.