Epic Games reveals The State of Unreal for 2025

Epic Games unveiled the State of Unreal in a keynote speech by CEO Tim Sweeney at the Unreal Fest in Orlando, Florida. Epic Games unveiled a stunning tech demo with CD Projekt Red, the maker of the Witcher series, as it showed off the tech behind The Witcher 4 on Unreal Engine 5.6. This post will give a taste of the event but our freelance writer Giancarlo Valdes is on the ground in Orlando. He’ll file dispatches with more details and hands-on impressions. And yep, Epic is doing this reveal in the shadow of Disneyworld, as it skipped its traditional State of Unreal at the Game Developers Conference in March. Epic also showed off AI creator tools for its MetaHuman platform for creating human avatars with realistic faces as well as Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), which is the haven for user-generated content. UEFN has generated $722 million in revenue paid out to third-party creators to date in the past couple of years. And the Epic Games Store has now paid developer and publisher p ... Read full article.