Unreal Engine Reveals New Updates With Livestream and Much More

Epic Games has announced new details for Unreal Engine via livestream on Twitch and much more. Read on.

FUGITIVE GAMES ANNOUNCES ‘INTO THE SKY’

This week, it was announced that two former DICE developers from the Battlefield, Lost Planet and Shadows of the Damned games have combined to form Fugitive Games. The company launched a Kickstarter campaign for their first title, Into the Stars, an open-world space survival simulation for PC and Mac built in Unreal Engine 4. Since the game’s announcement, the team has raised over $60,000, an impressive 80% of their pledged $85k goal in just three days.

NVIDIA ANNOUNCES TEGRA X1; BRINGS ‘ELEMENTAL’ DEMO TO MOBILE

At the Consumer Electronics Show on Sunday, NVIDIA announced the Tegra X1 processor, a high-end graphics chip for mobile devices. To demonstrate the rendering capabilities of the superchip, NVIDIA showcased Epic’s UE4-powered Elemental demo, which was originally built to push high-end PC and console features, on a tablet.

THIS WEEK ON TWITCH: 4.7, PREVIEW RELEASE PROCESS AND MORE

On today’s livestream, Unreal Engine General Manager Ray Davis, Technical Director Mike Fricker and Lead Engineer James Golding join Community Manager Chance Ivey to discuss some of the changes coming in Unreal Engine 4.7 and the new Preview release process. There will also be a special GDC-related announcement for developers!

Also earlier this week, Epic hosted its Procedural Room Generation training stream, which covered topics including map generation, non-rendered actors acting as data classes, 1D and 2D arrays - all designed in Blueprints, no code needed! You can replay the stream here.