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PUBG creator decides to drop copyright charges against Epic Games

On Monday the 25th of June PUBG Corp., an organisation affiliated with Bluehole Inc. based in South Korea, officially declared their intention to drop a protracted lawsuit against Epic Games  over allegations of copyright infringement. This comes after Bluehole had opened a court case in January against Epic Games claiming that their battle royale golden goose, Fortnite, had been created as an illegal replica of PUBG.

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Fortnite breaks another record, generating $296 million in April across all platforms

SuperData Arcade has shared its monthly report, claiming that Fortnite has broken another record by generating $296 million in April across all platforms. Epic’s free to play game generated $223 million in March, therefore it will be interesting to see whether it will hit $300 million in May. Continue reading Fortnite breaks another record, generating $296 million in April across all platforms

Unreal Gold is available for free on GOG and Steam for a limited time

In order to celebrate Unreal’s 20th anniversary, Epic Games is offering this classic first-person shooter for free. Unreal was Epic’s answer to id Software’s Quake 2 and while it did not dethrone id Software’s classic shooter back then, it still remains one of the most beloved FPS games. This is an incredible offer, so we strongly suggest getting it while you still can. Continue reading Unreal Gold is available for free on GOG and Steam for a limited time

Epic Games suggests devs to use NVIDIA’s RTX real-time ray tracing, NVIDIA will bring it to Vulkan

At GDC 2018, NVIDIA showcased its brand new real-time ray tracing tech, RTX. NVIDIA RTX consists of a highly scalable ray-tracing technology running on NVIDIA Volta architecture GPUs and it was officially announced for DX12, although it is architected to support ray tracing through a variety of interfaces. Thankfully, NVIDIA is looking into bringing RTX to the Vulkan API. Continue reading Epic Games suggests devs to use NVIDIA’s RTX real-time ray tracing, NVIDIA will bring it to Vulkan

Unreal Engine 4’s real-time raytracing tech demo was running on four NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs

During GTC 2018, NVIDIA revealed that Epic Games’ amazing real-time raytracing tech demo in Unreal Engine 4, Reflections, was running on four Tesla V100 graphics cards. And while it took four Tesla V100 GPUs to power it, it’s pretty incredible that this demo was running in real-time at a smooth framerate. Continue reading Unreal Engine 4’s real-time raytracing tech demo was running on four NVIDIA Tesla V100 GPUs

Epic Games showcases an incredible real-time raytracing tech demo of Star Wars in Unreal Engine 4

In order to showcase the incredible capabilities of the recently announced DirectX Raytracing API, Epic Games released a video showing a Star Wars tech demo in Unreal Engine 4. And it looks absolutely gorgeous. Continue reading Epic Games showcases an incredible real-time raytracing tech demo of Star Wars in Unreal Engine 4

Epic Games is giving away all the assets of its third-person MOBA game, Paragon, for free

Epic Games has just announced that it is giving away all the assets of its cancelled third-person MOBA game, Paragon, for free to all developers. These assets are currently available for download in the Unreal Engine Marketplace, so be sure to download them right away. Continue reading Epic Games is giving away all the assets of its third-person MOBA game, Paragon, for free

New UnrealVR version features 3 levels from the original Unreal, adds dual auto-mags & bullet time

Unreal fans, here is something special for you today. Modder ‘kwstasg’ has released a brand new version of his Unreal VR project in Unreal Engine 4. This new version of UnrealVR features 3 levels from the original Unreal game, adds animated and static meshes and packs minor changes to the lighting so it can be closer to the original. Continue reading New UnrealVR version features 3 levels from the original Unreal, adds dual auto-mags & bullet time