Fortnite creators will quickly have much more toys to play with in Unreal Editor in Fortnite (UEFN).
On the State of Unreal keynote right now at Unreal Fest 2025, Epic Video games introduced a slew of recent intellectual-property belongings for the favored stage creation instrument. Content material from the hit Netflix present Squid Sport will probably be coming to UEFN on June 27 alongside the discharge of the collection finale. Creators may also get to make use of options, templates, and belongings from Avatar: The Final Airbender subsequent 12 months.
Star Wars may also be added to UEFN at a future date and permit gamers to inform their very own tales within the Star Wars universe. And recent off the heels of the (controversial) inclusion of an AI-powered Darth Vader that responds to gamers’ conversations in Fortnite, Epic revealed that creators will have the ability to make their very own responsive AI characters utilizing the brand new Persona System in UEFN.
This isn’t the primary time Fortnite creators have had entry to licensed IP supplies. Final 12 months, Epic Video games added Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles to UEFN, and most just lately added The Strolling Useless.
The corporate additionally revealed that the Epic Digital Assistant, an AI function that helps builders write strains of code in Verse (the programming language utilized in UEFN) utilizing prompts, is on the market now in beta on the Epic Developer Group web site.
On the Fortnite Lego entrance, a brand new Lego Brick Editor is launching on June 17, which comes with 50 basic bricks in 42 totally different colours, permitting folks to construct new islands brick-by-brick.
For the reason that launch of UEFN in 2023, Epic Video games stated that gamers have spent greater than 11.2 billion hours throughout 260,000 user-made islands. About $722 million has been paid out to creators consequently.
Disclosure: Epic Video games paid my approach to Unreal Fest.
