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Unreal Engine 4 is a game engine made by Epic Games. The Unreal Engine has been around for over a decade and has been used to make a ton of games. The latest release of the engine (4) has a new business model too: it’s free!

You can download and make games right now and release them commercial. All Epic asks is that you pay them a royalty of your sales.

To get into Unreal 4 here’s some helpful resources.

If you’re used to using Unity you’ll want to check out this handy guide on using Unreal 4 for Unity developers.

Good sources to learn Unreal right from Epic:

Official Unreal Engine 4 tutorial playlists

Unreal Engine 4 Wiki (includes written tutorials, too)

Unreal Engine 4 Documentation

Within Unreal there is a visual scripting system called Blueprint. Here’s a good tutorial on getting started with it.

It looks like this year could see some really nifty developments in the world of game engines. I’ve already looked at Unreal Engine 4 and now Unity 4 news has been announced.

Here’s a fellow with a super-popped collar that explains some of the new things in Unity:

The new character animation technology looks rather promising and may make it easier to produce crowds and make them look real. There is a focus on improving workflows for studios in Unity 4 – including a Linux build!

There’s a whole load of new features including exporting to Flash (still no HTML5) and DirectX 11 support. What I’d really love to see is a visual editor included by default.

Unity 4 should be released in the last quarter of 2012.

Unity comes is available in multiple flavours and you can find out which suits you best here.

Game thinking from Adam Clare

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Getting Started With Unreal Engine 4

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