Fortnite's evolution is delivering on metaverse dreams | Opinion

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On paper, a company announcing – in effect – that they're upgrading the modding tools for their online game should not be an industry-shaking event.

Sure, it's made more interesting when the game in question has generated revenues of around $30 billion in its five-year lifespan; any change at all to a behemoth on that scale is automatically of interest, after all. But even acknowledging that Fortnite is one of the most commercially successful games in history, it can be easy to miss just how important the link Epic just forged between the game and its Unreal Engine tools actually is – and the extent to which it could reshape a whole segment of the industry in the years to come.

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