The Pit is a popular UEFN game.
The Pit is a popular UEFN game.
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Epic Games faces complaints of UEFN DMCA takedown manipulation and ‘like cheating’

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
  • Updated
  • 5 min

Epic Games is facing some pressure from popular creators to do more about bad behavior among map creators in the community-focused version of Fortnite.

Dubbed UEFN (Unreal Editor for Fortnite), the version of Fortnite for amateur and pro creators alike has generated $320 million in payouts last year. But the competition for that money among creators of Fortnite Island, or user-generated maps, has gotten ugly.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.