Unreal Engine 5
Epic's real-time 3D engine for high-fidelity rendering, large open worlds, animation, and virtual production.
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Unreal Engine 5
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Everything new about Unreal Engine 5, newest first. Releases, reviews, tutorials, tweets, and editor notes.
- 6 days agoJul 18, 2026Newsletter6 days ago · Jul 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 4Jul 4, 2026NewsletterJul 4 · Jul 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 27Jun 27, 2026NewsletterJun 27 · Jun 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 19Jun 19, 2026NewsletterJun 19 · Jun 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 17Jun 17, 2026ReleaseJun 17 · Jun 17, 2026
Unreal Engine 5.8
The last major UE5 release, with MegaLights production-ready.
Read full postUnrealRelease - Jun 17Jun 17, 2026AnnouncementJun 17 · Jun 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 17Jun 17, 2026ReleaseJun 17 · Jun 17, 2026
Lore: Epic's open-source version control
A VCS built for projects mixing code with large binary assets.
Read full postUnrealCode - Nov 16Nov 16, 2025NewsletterNov 16 · Nov 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.
Read the full newsletter - Nov 12Nov 12, 2025ReleaseNov 12 · Nov 12, 2025
Unreal Engine 5.7
PCG and Substrate go production-ready, plus an in-editor AI Assistant.
Read full postUnrealRelease - Nov 9Nov 9, 2025NewsletterNov 9 · Nov 9, 2025From the weekly newsletter
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 2Nov 2, 2025NewsletterNov 2 · Nov 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 3Jun 3, 2025ReleaseJun 3 · Jun 3, 2025
Unreal Engine 5.6
Open-world 60 fps and a fully engine-native MetaHuman.
Read full postUnrealMetaHuman
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