20260618 - Unreal Engine 6 goes AI, wants to bring back NFTs

everybody loves Tim Sweeney

https://pivot-to-ai.com/2026/06/18/unreal-engine-6-goes-ai-and-wants-to-bring-back-nfts/ - blog post

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• Agreed. The AI tag is relevant to art exhibits for authorship disclosure https://x.com/TimSweeneyEpic/status/1993687499621728312
• The road to Unreal Engine 6 https://www.unrealengine.com/news/the-road-to-ue-6
• Why so many game developers don't want to use generative AI https://www.gamesradar.com/games/why-so-many-game-developers-dont-want-to-use-generative-ai/
• CEO Tim Sweeney: "Unreal Engine 6 Will Fundamentally Change the Development Paradigm" https://www.invenglobal.com/articles/22928/ceo-tim-sweeney-unreal-engine-6-will-fundamentally-change-the-development-paradigm
• Godot Engine contributing documentation in English https://contributing.godotengine.org/en/latest/pull_requests/pull_request_guidelines.html

Previously on Pivot to AI:

• Epic CEO wants Steam to remove AI game disclosures https://pivot-to-ai.com/2025/11/27/epic-ceo-wants-steam-to-remove-ai-game-disclosures/
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