Unreal Engine 4 now available as $19/month subscription with 5% royalty Formerly secretive source code to be released to subscribers via GitHub.

Unreal Engine 4.22 is now available to download Unreal Engine 4.22 comes with major features and updates submitted by the Unreal Engine GitHub community.

The Unreal Development Kit has been free to download since late 2009. It offers users a full suite of programming, level editing and movie making tools.

At a GDC 2014 press briefing today, Epic founder Tim Sweeney announced that Unreal Engine 4 is now available for game development, but not just for big studios.

GitHub, DigitalOcean, DNSimple, SendGrid, Stripe Unreal Engine and others are launching the GitHub Student Developer Pack to give students free access to their tools.