Epic Games further doubles down on gen-AI tools for Fortnite, Unreal Engine 6 and more: "Our engineers are no longer writing the bulk of the code"

To no one's surprise, Epic Games has now confirmed that it's tripling down on its gen-AI push and will use the controversial tech on everything from Fortnite to the next iteration of its widely-used game development engine, Unreal Engine 6.

Speaking to This Week In Video Games, executive vice president of development Marcus Wassmer confirmed that "we are definitely using AI to develop code and features for Unreal Engine," but that work will also be extended to the engine's next big numbered version. "Almost all development happening right now is being done in the dev streams attached to Fortnite, UEFN [Unreal Editor for Fortnite], and UE6."