Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney recently revealed in an interview with TheVerge that Unreal Engine 6 will be designed as a metaverse development platform, which may eventually create a digital asset marketplace that Web3 gamers have always dreamed of.

Tim Sweeney presented his 10-year plan and said they had to lay off 16% of their workforce last year in order to make it happen. In his plan, Epic Games will better connect Unreal Engine itself with the Unreal Editor, allowing mappers to better leverage their talents, and in the future, perhaps connect the assets of Fortnite and other Unreal Engine games/projects to form a marketplace for digital assets that belong to the same engine.

"When we combine these two worlds, true power comes. It took a few years to integrate, and that was Unreal Engine 6. “

A few days ago, Saxs Persson, vice president of Epic Games, revealed during During Unreal Fest Seattle 202 Seattle 4 that they were already working on Unreal Engine 6.

"Epic Games is about to add some new technology to Fortnite's Unreal Editor (UEFN) that is the foundation of Unreal Engine 6." According to Saxs Persson, "Epic Games has made the decision to put their first-party team into UEFN projects early to accelerate the development of this feature, and we will be releasing the new Verse (programming language), Scene Graph, and API in December as part of the future foundation of Unreal Engine 6." ”

According to Saxs Persson, Unreal Engine 6 appears to be an upgraded version based on the fusion of Unreal Engine 5 and Fortnite Unreal Editor, which could potentially enable millions of players to coexist in the same project at the same time, just like a virtual universe.

Unreal Engine 5 was released in 2022 and features such as Lumen - Dynamic Global Illumination and Reflections, Niagara - Particle System, Mass - Crowd and Traffic System, World Division - Automated Open World Streaming, Nanite - Virtual Geometry, Chaos - Physics and Shattering System, Rules Processor - Rule-Based Object Placement, and Temporal Super Resolution (TSR) Oversampling Technology. Games like Black Myth: Wukong, Hellblade 2, and Tekken 8 were all built on Unreal Engine 5.

However, this news did not cause much of a stir in the Web2 traditional gaming industry. Perhaps because the virtual fire of the "metaverse" is still fresh in people's minds, everyone is not particularly interested in the future depicted by Unreal Engine 6. Unlike Unreal Engine 5, the information revealed in Unreal Engine 6 is focused more on Fortnite and virtual assets, rather than on technical upgrades, creators, and effects for players.

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