Epic Games' The State of Unreal at GDC 2023.
Epic Games' The State of Unreal at GDC 2023.
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How Epic Games views the metaverse and the State of Unreal | Tim Sweeney

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 15 min

At its State of Unreal event last week, Epic Games showed off not only the visual magic of 3D graphics of games in the future. It also showed off the business models, the trends like user-generated content, and its Verse programming language.

Importantly, Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, showed how to think about the hype cycle around the idea of the metaverse.

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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.