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These 2025 AAA games suffered for moving to Unreal Engine 5

Many major AAA titles this year made the move to Unreal Engine 5, and for a lot of them, perhaps not doing so would've resulted better.
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Epic CEO Tim Sweeney blames game developers for poor Unreal Engine 5 performance

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.
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Unreal Engine 5.2 is getting too real

Epic Games previewed Unreal Engine 5.2, showcasing stunning realism with 71 million-polygon Rivian truck renders, new Substrate material framework for layered reflections, and procedural generation ...
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Unreal Engine 5 Games With The Best Performance

Joe Grantham is a contributor from the UK with a degree in Classical Studies. His love for gaming is only rivaled by a deep passion for medieval history, which often seeps into his articles. With over ...
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The 'main goal' for Epic Games' new Unreal 5.6 engine is more performance on the PS5 and that should be good news for gaming on affordable PC hardware

Epic Games has been showing off its latest Unreal 5.6 game engine. While it's full of technical innovations and new graphical and physics features, the main takeaway is that the latest version of ...