What do games like Gears of War, Mass Effect, and XCOM have in common? Besides their shared objective of blowing aliens to bits with great big laser guns, they are all built with the Unreal Engine 4.

Today, Epic Games has announced that Unreal Engine 4 is now available for free to universities and schools. That means any academic institutes can have full access to the high-end engine’s extensive ...

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At the 2014 Game Developers Conference, Epic Games' Tim Sweeney announces that one of the most powerful engines in game design is now widely available. Nick Statt was a staff reporter for CNET News ...