Thursday, 18 June 2026

Game News Round-Up

Daily curated games-industry news digest for 18 June 2026.

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Epic have revealed details about their Unreal Engine 6 Plans

  • UE5 + UEFN = UE6
  • Actors and Blueprints will be deprecated, replaced with Verse and Scene Graph
  • UE6 Main is now available on Github, full release expected "late 2027-ish"
  • Will integrate AI systems to allow developers to “build content faster” while “maintaining the creative control you need”
  • Will have conversion tools for UE5 tools not coming over (Blueprints .etc)
  • Strong intent to have interoperability between games (where items such as Weapons, Vehicles, Characters and Fortnite skins .etc can be shared across games)
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