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Joe Foley

Surprise Epic Games partnership with Unity promises more open game development

Image from announcement of Epic Games and Unity collaboration to allow Unity developers to bring games to Fortnite and Unity’s commerce platform to come to Unreal Engine.

Unity vs Unreal Engine is the biggest contest among the best video game development software today. But Unity Technologies and Unreal developer Epic Games are putting some of their rivalry aside to promote what they see as an open, interoperable future for gaming.

Making a surprise appearance on stage at Unity’s Unite conference in Barcelona today, Epic Games’ CEO and founder Tim Sweeney joined Unity CEO Matt Bromberg on stage to to announce that Unity developers will be able to bring their games to Epic's Fortnite, while Unity’s commerce platform will come to Unreal Engine.

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