Overview
- Announced onstage at Unity’s Unite 2025 keynote in Barcelona, the partnership will let Unity-made games be published and discovered inside Fortnite starting next year.
- Unity will add Unreal Engine support to its cross‑platform commerce platform early next year, giving Unreal developers a single dashboard for catalogs, pricing, promotions, payments, and live ops.
- Epic says a low‑level networking approach will connect Unity servers to Fortnite clients so players need no extra installs and can retain parties and voice chat.
- Unity titles published into Fortnite will appear in its discovery system and be eligible for the Fortnite Creator Economy, with Epic initially reviewing content for ratings compliance and functionality.
- Epic and Unity present the move as a practical step toward an open metaverse, with more technical and timing details promised in early 2026 and Fortnite’s scale cited at over 500 million registered accounts.