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Epic's real-time 3D engine for high-fidelity rendering, large open worlds, animation, and virtual production.
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Updated Oct 3, 2026Latest Unreal Engine 5 updates
Everything new about Unreal Engine 5, newest first. Releases, reviews, tutorials, tweets, and editor notes.
- TodayOct 3, 2026NewsletterToday · Oct 3, 2026From the weekly newsletter
ElevenLabs ships Eleven v4, AMD agrees to buy World Labs, PixiEditor's team announces Trexel
ElevenLabs releases Eleven v4 and v4 Turbo, AMD agrees to acquire Marble maker World Labs, Pixi Labs announces the 2D asset suite Trexel, and SpAItial brings Echo world generation into Claude.
Read the full newsletter - 6 days agoSep 26, 2026Newsletter6 days ago · Sep 26, 2026From the weekly newsletter
Tripo P2.0 brings clean quads, Meta announces prompt-to-game tools, Action Game Maker 2.0 enters beta
Tripo's quad-mesh model launches for everyone, Meta announces Horizon Create and Horizon Studio for building mobile games from a description, and the RPG Maker publisher puts its Godot-based action game tool into beta.
Read the full newsletter - Sep 12, 2026NewsletterSep 12, 2026From the weekly newsletter
Suno v6 adds a free model, Roblox announces standalone apps, Hyper3D generates whole rooms
Suno's v6 family brings section editing and a free v6-mini, Roblox says creators will be able to ship standalone apps, Hyper3D WorldGen turns one image into an editable scene, and Summer Engine's assistant now builds scenes.
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Unity 6.6 lands, ArmorPaint hits 1.0, Inworld's directable voices go live
Unity's last release before 6.7 LTS makes fast Play Mode the default, the open-source texture painter ArmorPaint reaches 1.0, Inworld's TTS-2 is generally available, and Sprite Fusion adds an AI pixel art generator.
Read the full newsletter - Aug 22, 2026NewsletterAug 22, 2026From the weekly newsletter
Tripo previews quad meshes, Unreal MCP reaches Fortnite, AutoRemesher 1.1
Tripo's P2.0 preview generates native quad topology for games, Epic builds its Unreal MCP into UEFN, AutoRemesher 1.1 gets its own quad engine, and Beeble adds a 3D scene generator.
Read the full newsletter - Aug 20, 2026ReleaseAug 20, 2026
Unreal MCP in UEFN
Epic's MCP bridge for AI agents now runs inside Unreal Editor for Fortnite, as a beta.
Read full postUnreal Engine 5MCPAgentic tooling - Aug 15, 2026NewsletterAug 15, 2026From the weekly newsletter
Meshy 7 sharpens image-to-3D, Convai brings its MCP to Unity, Suno Studio 2.0 adds MIDI
Meshy 7 follows your reference image more closely, Convai lets coding agents build talking NPCs in Unity, Suno's browser DAW adds MIDI and automation alongside new download limits, and SpriteLoop is a free cut-out 2D animator.
Read the full newsletter - Aug 8, 2026NewsletterAug 8, 2026From the weekly newsletter
Armature makes rigging free, Cascadeur adds layers and MCP, BlendKit comes to Godot
A free AI rigging app takes on the most painful step of getting a character moving, Cascadeur 2026.2 adds animation layers and an MCP server, and BlendKit's free asset library arrives in Godot.
Read the full newsletter - Jul 18, 2026NewsletterJul 18, 2026From the weekly newsletter
Blender 5.2 LTS, visible agents, and Roblox's prompt-to-play bet
Blender lands a two-year stable base, Summer Engine makes agent-building directable, and Roblox bets the platform on prompt-to-playable.
Read the full newsletter - Jul 4, 2026NewsletterJul 4, 2026From the weekly newsletter
Phaser's Game Agent, Box3D, and EVE's engine goes open source
Prompt-to-playable went mainstream and production-grade engine code went open source, in the same week.
Read the full newsletter - Jun 27, 2026NewsletterJun 27, 2026From the weekly newsletter
EA backs Godot, iClone goes free, and a busy DCC week
Four pipeline tools shipped real updates in four days, EA put money behind Godot, and Reallusion made a serious animation tool free.
Read the full newsletter - Jun 19, 2026NewsletterJun 19, 2026From the weekly newsletter
Engine super-week: Unreal 5.8, Unity 6.5, and Godot 4.7
The big three engines shipped within days. Unreal 5.8 goes out as the last major UE5 release and starts the UE6 countdown, while Unity 6.5 and Godot 4.7 hit milestones of their own.
Read the full newsletter - Jun 17, 2026ReleaseJun 17, 2026
Unreal Engine 5.8
The last major UE5 release, with MegaLights production-ready.
Read full postUnreal - Jun 17, 2026AnnouncementJun 17, 2026
The road to Unreal Engine 6
Epic's plan to merge UE5 and UEFN into one engine, around Verse.
Read full postUnrealEngine - Jun 17, 2026ReleaseJun 17, 2026
Lore: Epic's open-source version control
A VCS built for projects mixing code with large binary assets.
Read full postUnrealCode - Nov 16, 2025NewsletterNov 16, 2025From the weekly newsletter
Unreal Engine 5.7 Official Release, Blender Labs Eyes AI, and World Labs Launches Marble
Powerful new tools for 3D artists, worldbuilders, and game devs: UE5.7's production-ready PCG, Blender's AI-focused Lab, and World Labs' Marble platform reshaping how virtual worlds are built.
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The Future of 3D-AI from an Adobe Technical Artist
Adobe Firefly, SwitchLight 3.0, Volinga's UE5 plugin, plus how Cino Lai built a full AI-3D pipeline in 6 days.
Read the full newsletter - Nov 2, 2025NewsletterNov 2, 2025From the weekly newsletter
William Faucher's EasyToolbag Is the UE5 Time-Saver You Didn't Know You Needed
A look at EasyToolbag for Unreal Engine 5.6, plus Adobe MAX Sneaks, Affinity going free, and why node-based pipelines are about to change everything for 3D artists.
Read the full newsletter - Jun 3, 2025ReleaseJun 3, 2025
Unreal Engine 5.6
Open-world 60 fps and a fully engine-native MetaHuman.
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