Epic Games Announces Unreal Engine 4 is Now Free

<p><span style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5">The Unreal Engine 4 is now available for the public to download for free&comma; Epic Games has announced today&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5">Unreal Engine 4&comma; which is capable of being used in game development&comma; film&comma; VR and animation&comma; was previously priced at &dollar;19&period;00 per month in 2014&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5">According to Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney&comma; the new free-to-download model for Unreal Engine 4 allows the company to take &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;a 5&percnt; royalty on gross revenue after the first &dollar;3&comma;000 per product&comma; per quarter&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The past year has been a whirlwind for everyone at Epic Games&comma;” he said in a blog post&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;Our community has grown massively&period; The quality and variety of creative work being done has been breathtaking&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;When we asked people to submit their projects to be shown this year at GDC&comma; we had the challenge of picking just eight from over 100 finalists that were all good enough to show&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5">Check out Tim Sweeney’s special Unreal Engine 4 video <&sol;span>message<span style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5"> below&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><amp-youtube layout&equals;"responsive" width&equals;"500" height&equals;"281" data-videoid&equals;"Pt86Ab4&lowbar;TnA" title&equals;"UE4 is Free&colon; A Message from Tim Sweeney &vert; News &vert; Unreal Engine"><a placeholder href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;Pt86Ab4&lowbar;TnA"><img src&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;i&period;ytimg&period;com&sol;vi&sol;Pt86Ab4&lowbar;TnA&sol;hqdefault&period;jpg" layout&equals;"fill" object-fit&equals;"cover" alt&equals;"UE4 is Free&colon; A Message from Tim Sweeney &vert; News &vert; Unreal Engine"><&sol;a><&sol;amp-youtube><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5">Epic Games also believes that the Unreal Engine 4 is versatile when it comes to the development of either indie games or AAA titles&comma; with it also including 100&percnt; of the C&plus;&plus; source code&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;The state of Unreal is strong&comma; and we’ve realized that as we take away barriers&comma; more people are able to fulfill their creative visions and shape the future of the medium we love&comma;” Sweeney explained&period; &OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;That’s why we’re taking away the last barrier to entry&comma; and going free&period;<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5">&OpenCurlyDoubleQuote;In Epic’s 25 years as an independent company&comma; we have seen no time of greater opportunity for developers than today&period; Whatever your development aspirations&comma; Epic stands with you&comma; both as a technology provider&comma; and as a fellow game developer counting on UE4 to power our own games&period;”<&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p><span style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5">In addition to the news being announced&comma; Epic Games also released a montage video &lpar;see below&rpar; consisting of games that have utilized the power of the Unreal Engine&comma; including <&sol;span><em style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5">Tekken 7<&sol;em><span style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5">&comma; <&sol;span><em style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5">Hellblade<&sol;em><span style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5">&comma; <&sol;span><em style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5">Mortal Kombat X<&sol;em><span style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5"> and <&sol;span><em style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5">Dead Island 2<&sol;em><span style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5">&period;<&sol;span><span style&equals;"line-height&colon; 1&period;5"> <&sol;span><&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;youtube&period;com&sol;watch&quest;v&equals;5orTzUuZPOg&&num;038&semi;feature&equals;youtu&period;be<&sol;p>&NewLine;<p>Via <a title&equals;"IF YOU LOVE SOMETHING&comma; SET IT FREE" href&equals;"https&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;unrealengine&period;com&sol;blog&sol;ue4-is-free" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Tim Sweeney<&sol;a> &amp&semi; <a title&equals;"Unreal Engine 4 is Free" href&equals;"http&colon;&sol;&sol;www&period;gamespress&period;com&sol;release&period;asp&quest;c&equals;301001--122009" target&equals;"&lowbar;blank">Epic Games<&sol;a><&sol;p>&NewLine;