He noted that while they were developing the game, "Halfway through the project, Epic came up with Unreal Engine 5, but the game is based on Unreal Engine 4.26.

Riot Games is switching to Unreal Engine 5 for Valorant in July. It’s part of a big upgrade to the game that will also include a replay system in September.

The developers of "Everspace 2" are porting their space shooter from Unreal Engine 4 to version 5. New features include lumen lighting and support for DLSS 3.

But Unreal Engine Demos have always been impressive for their time, so here's hoping the Unreal Engine 5 games that eventually release will impress just as much. Focus Reset IGN Logo ...

Unreal Engine 5.6 outperforms 5.4 with up to 30% faster frame rates and improved lighting Real-world tests highlight smoother gameplay and richer visuals By Cal Jeffrey June 23, 2025, 16:04 8 comments ...

Update (June 13, 2023 4:58 AM): The earlier headline and article implied that Epic Games had showcased Unreal Engine 5 at the Future Games Show Summer Showcase 2023.Epic Games reached out to us to ...

[Unreal Engine 5] was announced quite some time ago, but we haven’t seen games for it yet,’ he explained. ‘So we started on [Unreal Engine 4] and gradually started porting certain elements ...

“We’ve been building Valorant in Unreal Engine 4 for over 10 years,” said Andy Ho, executive producer on the game. Valorant will officially move to Unreal Engine 5 in the 11.02 patch, ...

Find out how Unreal Engine 5.6 boosts FPS by 35% in CPU-heavy scenes, upgrades MetaHuman tools, and streamlines animation, ...

Valorant has been running on Unreal Engine 4 since a beta of the game originally released in 2020, and Riot Games has been using Unreal 4 for more than 10 years to build the game.The upgrade to ...

After initially developing and updating the game in Unreal Engine 4 for more than ten years, the dev team announced a port to Unreal Engine 5 with patch 11.02 around the end of July. The Valorant ...