Epic Games Announces Unreal Engine 6 With Integrated Generative AI Tools and Fortnite Editor
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Summary
Epic Games has announced Unreal Engine 6, the next version of its popular game development engine, which will integrate generative AI tools and features. The announcement follows previous teases and continues Epic's push to incorporate AI-powered tools into its offerings. Unreal Engine 6 will unify Unreal Engine 5 with Epic's Fortnite Editor, merging game development and metaverse creation tools into a single platform. The engine has historically powered major titles like Gears of War, Ark, Batman: Arkham Asylum, and Fortnite.
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· 3 pulledEpic has announced that the next version of Unreal Engine will continue the company's publicly derided efforts to shove AI-powered tools and features into more of its offerings.
With Unreal Engine 6, Epic is unifying Unreal Engine 5 and its Fortnite Editor into Unreal Engine 6
Previous versions of it have powered games like Gears of War, Ark, Batman: Arkham Asylum, and, of course, Epic's own Fortnite.
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