Epic Games has cut off access to Unreal Engine developers from Belarus

Belarusian game developers can neither visit the Unreal Engine 4 game engine website nor download the tool itself.

As our source from Minsk confirmed to us, instead of the service page, developers see the following:

Journalists from Kanobu conducted a small investigation and came to the conclusion that such a situation may be related to the fact that Epic began to comply with the American “Act on Democracy and Human Rights in 2011 with respect to Belarus“, according to which it is prohibited to supply “technological tools” to the country, among other things.

The first mentions of the problem date back to the beginning of January on the official forum of the engine.

A source: http://kanobu.ru

Epic Games is an American studio headquartered in Cary. She is known for the Unreal, Unreal Tournament and Gears of War series of games. He is also the author of one of the most popular game development engines — Unreal Engine.