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Through Sherif Saed,
Wednesday, May 13, 2020, 16:01 GMT
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Epic is opening its online service pack to game developers.
of Epic online service, Is the Epic Games tool suite developed for Fortnite, which can be provided to all developers individually or as a whole.
Epic online services include buddy lists, matchmaking, lobby, leaderboards, and accounts not related to the system. Epic has used them on all Fortnite platforms, so they have been proven.
These services will be provided in the multi-platform SDK, which can be used by Unreal Engine developers for free. Epic says that because you can choose, you can use the content you choose with existing internal services.
This is just one of several news releases by Epic today. The publisher ’s big news is the release of Unreal Engine 5 and a full demo running on PS5. The engine will be previewed early next year for developers to use.