GitHub, DigitalOcean, DNSimple, SendGrid, Stripe Unreal Engine and others are launching the GitHub Student Developer Pack to give students free access to their tools.

Unreal Engine 4 now available as $19/month subscription with 5% royalty Formerly secretive source code to be released to subscribers via GitHub.

Developers can download the Unreal Engine 5.4 preview on the Epic Games Launcher, GitHub, or here. Linux users can find it on Epic's website.

At a GDC 2014 press briefing today, Epic founder Tim Sweeney announced that Unreal Engine 4 is now available for game development, but not just for big studios.