Whether you are an avid game developer or curious about developing in VR for the first time, you'll want to take a look at Unreal Engine from Epic Games. Unreal* Engine is a free development platform ...

Not content with letting Unreal have all the fun, Unity has revealed its own toolset that enables devs to build games while in virtual reality. Now developers can literally tweak games while standing ...

Epic Games has been teasing "the future of VR development" recently, and the team is finally ready to tell everyone what that is: Creating virtual reality content within virtual reality itself, using ...

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. Epic’s Unreal Engine ...

We remember walking around EGX in 2014 and seeing the queue for Eve Valkyrie - at the time one of the leading promise makers about the potential of virtual reality to transform gaming. At EGX Rezzed ...

This week Epic Games released the latest version of its next-gen game engine, Unreal Engine 5. Though the new version brings improvements in many areas, its most notable features are Lumen (global ...

Yesterday, Epic Games suggested they had something up their figurative sleeves that would allow us a "glimpse into the future of VR development." Today, they've revealed that to be the possibility of ...

The battle for the next big thing in virtual reality isn't just raging among headset makers; there's also a battle over the 3D engines that power those experiences. Though most of the leading 3D ...

Michael McWhertor is a journalist with more than 17 years of experience covering video games, technology, movies, TV, and entertainment. The future of the Unreal Engine is open and, compared to Epic ...