What is new with Epic Games & Unreal Engine?

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Epic announces concrete changes: Epic Games Store is curated and live with 85 million PC accounts, the store team handpicks releases and the marketplace now uses an 88/12 revenue split while engine royalties remain 5% for most deals. Epic ships an Epic Online Services SDK (analytics, matchmaking, voice, ticketing) free across engines, runs Unreal Engine 4.22 with ray tracing, faster C++ compile times, live coding and Chaos physics for real‑time destruction, plus a $100M MegaGrants program and monthly payouts to creators.

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1. 0:00Introduction and company overview
2. 8:55Epic Games Store details
3. 13:56Unreal Engine features and updates
4. 22:11Epic MegaGrants and funding programs
5. 26:24Developer events and community support
6. 30:46Unreal Fest and future plans
7. 35:31Unreal Engine beyond gaming
8. 37:42Q&A and closing remarks

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