You may be curious: why don't we post about free Epic Store giveaways as we usually do on holidays? Well, this time they managed to screw it up completely — they gave away crappy games and now a DLC to a F2P dungeon crawler!

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Epic Games is trying to end copyright violation madness on its community platform UEFN and marketplace FAB. Unlike Roblox, that often requires manual DMCA strikes, Epic is going to use mass-research, similar to YouTube algorithm.

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Good night, folks!

Tim accidentally boosted meme coins prices by x30, when he mentioned them in a joke about IRS requirements to report income from criminal activities.

Now he's a spiritual leader of all meme coins, trying to stop it all, and getting Streisand effect. It's hilarious to watch 🍿 (he's generally a nice guy but struggles with some social communications).

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Epic Games announced that Apple lost again, this time in the United States.

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Apple complied with the court rule and now, according to their EULA, apps in the US can suggest users too leave into the web version and pay cheaper without Apple fees.

Glory to Tim Sweeney!

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Tim Sweeney beat up Apple, created Epic Games, and bought a huge chunk of wild land to preserve it from industrialization (226 KM²).

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=477qF6QNSvc
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An artist noticed that someone uploaded 35000+ AI generated 3D models as separate FAB assets. They have millions of polygons each and distorted textures, so they are kinda unusable.

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The WHAT?

Unity and Epic Games announced a partnership plan to make Fortnite creative mode stronger. It will support games made with Unity and aimed at lower-powered systems.

For Epic, it will help to gain wider audience and compete against Roblox. All the people who are not able to run heavy games will now be able to try more simple and common experiences from the same launcher.

For Unity, it will provide an additional market and going to help them to earn far beyond the subscription plan.

And Unity will bring their In-App Purchases SDK to Unreal Engine developers too. Which will make it easier to use cross-platform stores and accounts.

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Meanwhile, Tim Sweeney decided to eat shit from the biggest audience he can gather by saying that AI usage should not be known by a customer.

This is why Epic Store will never overthrow Steam, not even a little.

How can he say that? He just invested in AI as all of them this year. And he started to praise it in the summer.

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Go use Material Maker instead!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ycY_MIkeKDI
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