Played around in the newly textured map just now and holy moly this game is pretty. I'm not sure what will happen to my framerate once I play with actual people but it was surprisingly smooth running around admiring the sights.

mind blown.

I guess they want to destroy Unity with this move, nonetheless very good news!

if it goes big dey gonna make a lot of dem 5% royalty fee

This is the nicest engine I have used, the only thing I dislike is that you have to use visual studio to develop in C++ and if you use the free version of visual studio you cant use the toolbars from UE4.

Use VS Community Edition instead of VS Express

You can also now play the current build for the new Unreal Tournament if you have the UE4 launcher. (you could sorta do it before but now its easier)

And they added a friends list to the launcher.

me and ash just played UT4 for a couple hours. it was surprisingly polished and fun. i always thought unreal 3 engine felt clunky but i was really impressed with ue4

Unity 5 has just announced Unity Personal Edition, which is free, with no royalties, and for use for companies with earnings below $100k (anything sold by someone using UE4 would have to pay 5% to unreal) So thats pretty cool that anyone can now get their hands on all this advanced tech for free.

More info: http://www.rockpapershotgun.com/2015/03/03/unity-5-gdc-2015/

Live - http://www.twitch.tv/unrealengine some previews