The State of Unreal 2025 live stream is here, and promises to give us a new look at The Witcher 4. We’ll be covering all the updates from Epic’s livestream, where it promises to “share what’s next for Unreal Engine and the Epic ecosystem.”
The real star of the show for most of you, however, is that The Witcher 4 developer CD Projekt Red will be there, “showcasing some of the innovative technology & features that will power The Witcher 4, and beyond.” We’ll be here to walk you through all the announcements, both Witcher-shaped and otherwise, when it kicks off later today.
What time is the State of Unreal livestream?
The State of Unreal 2025 begins at the following times:
– 08.30 PDT
– 11.30 EDT
– 14.30 BST
First things first – what is the State of Unreal? If you’re not familiar, Unreal Engine is a game creation engine, made and published by Epic Games – who you might be familiar with as the developers of a little game called Fortnite. Unreal is one of the biggest and most popular game engines going, used by developers all over the world to help build their games.
Each year, Epic offers a peek at the new tech it’s working on at the State of Unreal. This is a chance to show off the engine – and often the games it helps to make – at their very best. Last year, for instance, the standout was an early look at Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra, the Captain America and Black Panther-led superhero caper from Uncharted’s Amy Hennig.
Elsewhere, however, Epic offered a closer look at new animation technology, changes to Fortnite Creators, and a look at Dune: Awakening. While it can be a very technical showcase, State of Unreal has definitely had its fair share of big reveals, and with The Witcher 4 at the helm, that doesn’t look likely to change.
If you want a closer look at last year’s reveal, you can check out the Rise of Hydra reveal below, straight from GDC. It’s a chunky presentation, but it peaked around the showdown between Steve Rogers and T’Chaka – father of the Black Panther we see in the MCU, T’Challa. The takeaway there was just how good those characters’ faces looked, but there’s also plenty more technical info if you want to dig in.
Before that, we had MetaHuman. Epic originally showed off its hyper-realistic character creation tech back several years ago, but State of Unreal 2023 leaned on Hellblade 2 to show off MetaHuman Animator, which took the NPC creation kit and added full facial animation to take things to the next level.
