Joe's State of Unreal 2026

🫧 Open on Bubbles If you've been tracking gamedev news over the last few days, you might have heard that the Unreal Engine's next version will be leaning fully into dead trends such as the "metaverse" and some kind of zombie version of NFT-style shared game items. It's also going to discard Blueprints, the visual scripting system which made Unreal so dominant in gamedev over the majority of my career. Tim Sweeney seems to have fully lost the plot. These issues are summarized much more completely by Joe Wint