Unreal Engine 4 and Unity 5, two of the dominant game development engines in the industry, are now both available for free to anyone interested in trying their hand. Unreal developer Epic Games ...

Adi Robertson is a senior tech and policy editor focused on VR, online platforms, and free expression. Adi has covered video games, biohacking, and more for The Verge since 2011. Unity has released ...

When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission. Here’s how it works. Unity Technologies announced today that the next version of its 3D game engine and editor is out ...

Video game graphics have been one of the main battlegrounds for both games and hardware producers since the industry began. The graphical jump from the 8-bit era to the 16-bit era, and then again in ...

Up until this year, game engines were not something most gamers had to give much thought to beyond the one or two seconds their logos might appear while a game was loading. That’s why this news about ...

The indie game development community is in turmoil following Unity's announcement of a new pricing system that will charge developers per user on initial download, instead of a flat engine licensing ...

What do BMW, Tencent, Pokémon Go creator Niantic, movie director Jon Favreau and construction giant Skanska have in common? They’re all using the same platform to create their products. “Unity wants ...

The week of GDC 2015 came and went, and perhaps the biggest news outside of new developments on the virtual reality front, was related to game engines. Epic Games, Unity, and Valve released a triple ...

The Unity engine powers many PC/console games and the vast majority of mobile games available on the market today. (Unity image) In the wake of a controversial policy change by game engine developer ...

The software framework that powers popular video games like Among Us and Pokémon Go is getting an overhaul to its pricing model. Game developers are furious, and say the change could have a ...

James Ratcliff joined Game Rant in 2022 as a Gaming News Writer. In 2023, James was offered a chance to become an occasional feature writer for different games and then a Senior Author in 2025. He is ...