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What do games like Gears of War, Mass Effect, and XCOM have in common? Besides their shared objective of blowing aliens to bits with great big laser guns, they are all built with the Unreal Engine 4.

Michael McWhertor is a journalist with more than 17 years of experience covering video games, technology, movies, TV, and entertainment. Epic Games is changing the business model for its ...