In February 2024, The Walt Disney Company and Epic Games announced that they would be collaborating to bring Disney stories ...

Coined by author Neal Stephenson in his 1992 science fiction novel “Snow Crash,” the concept of a shared digital space, or metaverse, enthralled Sweeney long before Fortnite afforded him the ...

Sweeney has big plans for this joint Unreal-Fortnite metaverse future, and is spending big bucks to see it happen. When you purchase through links on our site, we may earn an affiliate commission.

But a lot has changed since. Fall Guys in Fortnite is just one example of how the metaverse and the platform-ification of games has impacted a beloved game.

Epic's Tim Sweeney believes Fortnite is basically an early version of the metaverse, and he recently spoke about this belief and how he sees the game growing and evolving over time. "It's going to ...

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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney — the guy behind Fortnite — has been fighting Apple and Tim Cook over its App Store rules for five ...

There's also Fortnite's role as a Metaverse product, which seems to have contributed to the discrepancy in Epic's expectations and the game's recent performance. Shortly after being a hot topic of ...

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 ...

As early as 2021, Epic Games has been in the process of changing Fortnite from a single game to a “metaverse,” in the words of founder and CEO Tim Sweeney. Now, the game functions more like a ...