Epic Games has been touting the potential of an interoperable metaverse for years, though that vision hasn’t yet become a reality. But with Unreal Engine 6, the next major version of its game development engine, Epic plans to take a big step toward that theoretical future: it will let developers make games that can use a player’s Fortnite skins and will let developers build skins of their own that work with Fortnite.
“We’re tackling this problem first because we want to prove things out with a system that’s complex enough to be a meaningful existence proof of the idea, and one that inherently comes with a ton of player value by respecting t …