Epic Games has released the August 2011 UDK Beta, and highlights some of the more interesting projects being designed by the enthusiast development community. The new UDK is available for download at www.udk.com/download and some new videos can be found on YouTube .

New to the August UDK release is a movie capture system, material functions, adaptive tessellation, iCloud document saving for iOS and much more. Epic claims that they have made lots of improvements to the Unreal Editor, including Unreal Matinee, Unreal Cascade, AnimSet Viewer, the material editor and other tools. Full details on all the changes can be found here .

To date, more than 900,000 developers have installed the free version of Unreal Engine 3. New projects Epic wants to highlight include Takenaka Corporation’s architectural visualization , Desert Zombie: Last Stand for iOS, and Q.U.B.E. .