Epic will let studios plug Claude, Gemini, or any model they like into the next Unreal Engine to do the ‘tedious work’ of building games. More than half of developers think that is a bad idea.
Epic Games has laid out its plans for Unreal Engine 6, and generative AI sits right at the centre of them.
At its State of Unreal keynote at Unreal Fest in Chicago on Wednesday, the Fortnite maker said UE6 will fold in integrations for models such as Anthropic’s Claude and Google’s Gemini, pitching them as ‘creativity and productivity multipliers’ for game studios.
The idea is to hand the grunt work of game-making to a model, so teams can spend more time on creative decisions. It is the same logic that took Claude into design tools at Canva, now pointed at the software that builds games.
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