Many studios still favor Epic's Unreal development engine over Unity or CryEngine

New tools are making it easier for anyone to build their own games, but the established technology is still a favorite for most developers.

A number of the people who make games think Unreal Engine 4 is the best game-development engine on the market, according to Develop Online’s latest poll of industry insiders. This toolkit from Gears of War creator Epic Games is still in the early phase of its deployment. It is the followup to Epic’s Unreal Engine 3, which was extremely popular with big publishers like Electronic Arts throughout the Xbox 360 and PlayStation 3 generation. Now, with competition from the Unity engine — which is popular with smaller companies and indie studios — Epic is making more of an effort to appeal to indie studios with Unreal 4. That is potentially paying off.