Everything You need to know about Unreal Fest: Day 1

It Is Crazy to think that UEFN has been out for 2 years! 11.2 Billion Hours Have been played across 260,000 Unique UEFN Games. $722 Million USD Has been paid to creators via the engagment payouts.

New Islands

Today at Unreal Fest, Epic revealed that we will be getting 3 new IP modes soon in addition to the ones we already have (TWDU, TMNT, Fall Guys, Rocket Racing, Lego). These Are:

• Squid Game Releasing: June 27 2025, and publishing will be available shortly after.
• Star Wars
• Avatar

Epic seem really invested in IP islands. 700,000 Hours has been spent developing TMNT islands and 160 Millon hours has been played across all IP Islands.

Star Wars AI

The Vadar AI currently in Battle royale will soon make its way to UEFN via persona device. You will be able to specify via verse how the AI behaves and their ultimate goal. This is so epic! You can see an example here:

Verse Assistant AI

Powered by Epics Own Data and GPT 4.1, we now have a verse assistant AI. This can help you brainstrorm, link you documentation and write verse code! You can access the assistant Here

Scene Graph

Scene Graph has been delayed again until.... Only Joking... Scene Graph Releases This Saturday, June 7th

Scene graph will be an essential factor for your games as it makes everything in the editor be able to be powered by verse code. Elements can be constructed in a hierarchical view and even constructed into prefabs. This code can also dynamically update things such as props, ammo and more!

Updated Roadmap

Epic have yet again updated their creative roadmap. New Features have been added to the roadmap! Have a look below to see what has changed!