Epic Games has released Unreal Engine 4.9, which is the first version of their game development tool to be released to the public that officially supports DirectX 12 in Windows 10.

Starting soon, anyone who installs Unity, Epic’s Unreal Engine, or Chukong’s Cocos2D will see a highlighted option to co-install Microsoft’s Visual Studio Community for Windows.

People have been waiting with anticipation for Unreal Engine 5, and now game developers can try it in early access.

If games built using Unreal Engine 5.2 can also run natively on M1 and M2 chips, we could also see those games performing better as well.

The newly released roadmap for Unreal Engine 5.1 touts some major and minor improvements to old and brand-new development tools.