If you go back and watch Gore Verbinski's Pirates of the Caribbean trilogy, you'll notice one thing right away: The CGI looks ...

"It’s inaccurate for anyone in the industry to claim that one tool is to blame," said Patrick Tubach, VFX supervisor at Epic ...

Director Gore Verbinski believes that CGI effects in movies have gotten worse in recent years because of Unreal Engine.

During its State of Unreal address at GDC 2023, Epic announced a wide-ranging suite of features for Unreal Engine 5.2. But perhaps the most important feature coming in the updated engine doesn’t ...

Gore Verbinski believes it's one of the main reasons why CGI shots are sometimes looking worse than they did in the late 2000s.

TL;DR: Unreal Engine 5 revolutionized game development with advanced technologies like Lumen and Nanite, but many UE5-powered games in 2025 face performance and optimization issues across platforms.

Unreal Engine 5 has been catching heat for performance issues on lower-end hardware, but Epic CEO Tim Sweeney isn’t having it. According to him, the engine’s not the bottleneck—developers are. And if ...

There’s no doubt that Unreal Engine has become one of the most popular tools for building modern games. More and more studios are shifting to Unreal Engine 5 (UE5), including Halo Studios, which has ...

Additional reporting by Alex Calvin. For developers just starting in the industry, the task of choosing the best game engine can be daunting. Here, we'll try to address many of the issues concerning ...