The top line is that Sweeney still sees promise for a "metaverse" of interoperable assets and marketplaces between Fortnite and other Unreal Engine games/initiatives, like a planned Unreal ...

A recent annual review from Epic Games reported strong growth in Fortnite's creator program. The number of users building custom content in the massively successful battle ...

Anyone can now make their own games inside Fortnite using Epic Games' new modding tools. Epic Games is giving Fortnite’s content creators the keys to the kingdom. During this week’s Game Developers ...

The wildly popular battle royale paid out a whopping $350 million to creators who made custom maps and game modes last year, up 11% from 2023 ...

Fortnite leaker HypeX has revealed that the game’s upcoming Disney universe has now transitioned to a ‘stable’ build. “ EXACTLY 1 YEAR AFTER THE ANNOUNCEMENT: Fortnite moved the Disney Collab today ...

“Epic Games, they own ‘Fortnite’ but, really, their moneymaker is Unreal Engine,” Hassan, AKA SypherPK, said. “Their plan is to give people Unreal Engine tools to customize the ...

Unreal Engine, which has been known in its various incarnations as the premiere — perhaps even de facto — game engine for over a decade, is already quite familiar to major game developers, especially ...

A learning process like the ones that led to the first Unreal and Gears of War, he adds. Darren Sugg, lead designer on Fortnite for about four years now, calls the game a kind of test case.

If you've played a game released in the past few years, you're likely familiar with the frustrating experience of shader compilation stutter. Shaders are small programs ...