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Epic wants to let you bring your Fortnite skins to other games
Epic Games has been touting the potential of an interoperable metaverse for years, though that vision hasn't yet become a reality. But with Unreal Engine 6, the next major version of its game development engine, Epic plans to take a big step toward that theoretical future: it will let developers make games that can use […] Epic Games has been touting the potential of an interoperable metaverse for years , though that vision hasn't yet become a reality. But with Unreal Engine 6, the next major version of its game development engine, Epic plans to take a big step toward that theoretical future: it will let developers make games that can use a player's Fortnite skins and will let developers build skins of their own that work with Fortnite . "We're tackling this problem first because we want to prove things out with a system that's complex enough to be a meaningful existence proof of t
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According to The Verge’s source item, Epic wants to let you bring your Fortnite skins to other games, Epic Games has been touting the potential of an interoperable metaverse for years, though that vision hasn’t yet become a reality. But with Unreal Engine 6, the next major version of its game development engine, Epic plans to take a big step toward that theoretical future: it will let developers make games that can use […] Epic Games has been touting the potential of an interoperable metaverse for years , though that vision hasn’t yet become a reality. But with Unreal Engine 6, the next major version of its game development engine, Epic plans to take a big step toward that theoretical future: it will let developers make games that can use a player’s Fortnite skins and will let developers build skins of their own that work with Fortnite . “We’re tackling this problem first because we want to prove things out with a system that’s complex enough to be a meaningful existence proof of t
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- Epic wants to let you bring your Fortnite skins to other gamesThe Verge - 2026-06-17T19:09:00+00:00
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