Today Epic announced Unreal Engine 6, the latest version of the tech behind games including Fortnite, Clair Obscur, the Borderlands series, and frankly, too many others to count—and of course, it’s crammed to the gills with AI garbage. Developers aren’t happy, with one, Vampire Survivors creator Poncle, going so far as to say it’s now “reviewing” a forthcoming Fortnite collab in light of the news.
Epic development team lead Marcus Wassmer put AI front and center in a post introducing UE6 after it was teased in a Rocket League trailer a few weeks ago:
For UE6, we see LLMs, generative AI models,
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