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Sweeney would later start work on the Unreal Engine, developed for the 1998 first-person shooter Unreal and licensed by multiple other video games. [6] [7] With the success of Unreal, the company relocated to North Carolina in 1999, and changed its name to Epic Games. [8]
Unreal Engine (UE) is a 3D computer graphics game engine developed by Epic Games, first showcased in the 1998 first-person shooter video game Unreal.Initially developed for PC first-person shooters, it has since been used in a variety of genres of games and has been adopted by other industries, most notably the film and television industry.
In 2014, Unreal Engine was named the "most successful videogame engine" by Guinness World Records. [8] Epic Games owns the game developers Psyonix , Mediatonic , and Harmonix , and operates studios in multiple locations around the world.
[8] After years of working in the same universe with Unreal, Digital Extremes broadened its library and technology with development of its original intellectual property, Dark Sector. A third-person shooter released in 2008 for PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC, Dark Sector used Digital Extremes' proprietary game engine, the Evolution Engine.
Unreal Engine 5 (UE5) is the latest version of Unreal Engine developed by Epic Games.It was revealed in May 2020 and officially released in April 2022. Unreal Engine 5 includes multiple upgrades and new features, including Nanite, a system that automatically adjusts the level of detail of meshes, and Lumen, a dynamic global illumination and reflections system that leverages software as well as ...
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Epic Games' Unreal Engine 3 was used for games such as The Last Remnant, and more recently, Unreal Engine 4 has been used for projects including Dragon Quest XI, Kingdom Hearts III, and the most recent Final Fantasy VII Remake. Unity has also been used internally for titles including I Am Setsuna, Lost Sphear, and SaGa: Scarlet Grace.
Epic since affirmed that they planned to continue the free game program through 2021, [7] [8] and 2022. [9] Later, it was announced the program would continue "through 2023 and beyond." [10] Through the first eighteen months of this program, Epic had given out over two thousand dollars of games, as estimated by PCGamesN. [11]