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Hours after announcing a collab with Fortnite, Vampire Survivors dev suggests it may back out over Epic's touting of generative AI
news Poncle is apparently reconsidering its Fortnite collab after seeing how Epic is using generative AI to help design Fortnite assets.
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'[It] is going to change a lot about how games are made': Epic merges Unreal Engine 5 with Unreal Engine for Fortnite to give game devs around the world Unreal Engine 6
News When two become one.
'It feels to many like a tidal wave is sweeping over the AAA game business,' says Epic CEO Tim Sweeney in his diagnosis of the industry's woes
news As the AAA model falters, Sweeney wants developers to build a "global ecosystem" of Unreal Engine games to rival Roblox.
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Unreal Engine 5.8 launches with improved terrain and vegetation tools, a Lumen Lite option for faster global illumination, and for the times we now live in, an open standard plugin for LLM systems
News Plus a whole heap more stuff that's genuinely useful for all kinds of devs.
The UK government is considering banning children from speaking to strangers in games like Fortnite and Roblox
News The UK's online safety minister is concerned about 'stranger pairing' in games.
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Shadow of the Colossus and Ico creator Fumito Ueda's next game will let us pilot a giant robot head to take over mech bodies
news I'm down for desolate, colossal robots.
Tim Sweeney takes swipes at Valve for Steam Deck price hike, blames it on the 'component parts supply chain for megayachts'
News Maybe Sweeney isn't the best person to make this point.
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Epic devs discuss the shock of mass layoffs: 'We only had a slight hint that the company revenue wasn't doing well'
Shockwaves 1,000 employees were laid off in March.
