Unreal Engine (UE) is a 3D computer graphics game engine developed by Epic Games, first showcased
in the 1998
first-person shooter video game Unreal. Initially developed for PC first-person shooters, it has since been used
in a
variety of genres of games and has been adopted by other industries, most notably the film and television
industry.
Unreal Engine 1 was initially developed in 1995 by Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney for Unreal and
used software rendering. It supported Windows, Linux, Mac and Unix. Epic later began to license the Engine to
other game
studios.
