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Epic Games reveals The State of Unreal for 2025

Epic Games unveiled the State of Unreal in a keynote speech by CEO Tim Sweeney at the Unreal Fest in Orlando, Florida.

Epic Games unveiled a stunning tech demo with CD Projekt Red, the maker of the Witcher series, as it showed off the tech behind The Witcher 4 on Unreal Engine 5.6. This post will give a taste of the event but our freelance writer Giancarlo Valdes is on the ground in Orlando. He’ll file dispatches with more details and hands-on impressions. And yep, Epic is doing this reveal in the shadow of Disneyworld, as it skipped its traditional State of Unreal at the Game Developers Conference in March.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.