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The DeanBeat: Fortnite underscores the competitive difference between Unreal and Unity

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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  • 6 min

Epic Games and Unity Technologies are locked in a battle for the hearts and minds of game developers. They both make game engines, or the tools used by game developers to make games that run on PCs, consoles, and mobile devices.

But when it comes to making games, their strategies are very different. Epic Games has always created its own titles, ranging from Unreal to Fortnite. Unity tried making its own game at first, but it found that its tools were much better than its game and it never looked back.

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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.