Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney officially announced Unreal Engine 6 in a statement. Development work on the next-generation game engine has already begun, but players will have to wait at least four more years to see the first games prepared with this engine.

Unreal Engine 6 officially announced

Unreal Engine 6 is designed to bring Epic Games’ game development structure under a single roof. According to Sweeney’s statement, some projects are developed separately in Unreal Engine 5 and technology sharing is quite limited.

With UE6, this distinction will disappear and a common technological basis will be taken on all platforms. The first developer preview version of the new engine is expected to be released in 2027 or 2028.

In this case, the first games to be developed with UE6 will only be possible to be released around 2029. In the meantime, let’s remember that Unreal Engine 5 is also progressing with a similar schedule. The engine, whose first preview was released in 2022, started to see its first major games in the second half of 2023.

The most striking innovation of Unreal Engine 6 is that the engine is finally switching to a multi-core architecture. Until now, Epic Games had been running simulation operations on only a single core.

This meant that performance could not be used to its full potential on hardware with multi-core processors. While Sweeney admitted that this was a conscious choice to make things easier for developers in the past, he emphasized that this approach is no longer sufficient.

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