NEWS
Featured free Marketplace content—February 2023
It’s another month and that means there’s new free Unreal Engine Marketplace content! Plot your world with a sampling of building blocks to plan your next heist, create a futuristic village, and raise a vibrant community with a stylized collection. Then bedazzle your heroes in flashy effects, before sending them to complete puzzles with an FPS puzzle kit!
Download them all before the month runs out via the Marketplace.
Unreal Engine 5.1.1 Hotfix Released
The Unreal Engine 5.1.1 Hotfix is now live—snag over 350 fixes and changes by updating your project today. Head to the Epic Games launcher or GitHub to download the Hotfix, and see the complete list of fixes on the community forums.
Lyra Starter Game Source Code Now on GitHub
Also newly available on GitHub is the Lyra Starter Game sample project. Now you can see all the incoming changes for Lyra, and even create pull requests if that’s your style. Check it out on the official Epic Games GitHub repo.
Unreal Challenge: Spellar Performance
And don’t forget, for the month of February, we’re running the Unreal Challenge: Spellar Performance—create a short video showcasing your spectacular VFX powers for a chance at $1,000 in cash and other prizes. Get the complete challenge details in the forums.
COMMUNITY SPOTLIGHTS
This week’s first spotlight streams in all the way from New Zealand! AFK: A Hole in the World is the latest installation of the long-running fantasy web series following the misadventures of a group of gamers who mysteriously wake up in the bodies of their MMO characters. Follow the fun on EpicallyCasual’s YouTube channel and check out their other series, For the Empire—a Star Wars fan show while you’re there.
Get ready retro gamers, SPRAWL is a hardcore FPS set in an endless cyberpunk megalopolis developed by a small team. Harness the power of your cybernetic implants to perform gravity-defying maneuvers and follow the guidance of a mysterious voice in your head as you make your way towards the spire to topple whatever lays within. Wishlist SPRAWL on Steam.
And rounding out this week’s spotlights is Desynced, a sci-fi survival strategy game. Gather, build, explore, and fight to survive with customizable units—either cooperatively or competitively with friends. Solve ancient ruins, defend against hostile forces, and discover new resources and biomes in order to advance your technology. There’s a limited time demo, now available on Steam. Download it today!