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This month's topic is a practical discussion / deep dive industry discussion of what the opportunities & impacts for the various Unreal Fest announcements actually mean.

Links to Announcements

• The road to Unreal Engine 6

• Unreal Engine 5.8 is now available

• Unreal MCP

• Lore: next-generation open source version control

• The full State of Unreal presentation

Candidate Topics

• UE 5.8 release

• UE 6.0

  • ~18 years out, 24-25 months before production-heavy readiness

• Scene Graph

• Verse

• Actors and Blueprints going away?

• MCP integration

  • MCP and PCG

• Lore version control system

• Opensourcing

  • LORE

  • Parts of MetaHuman

• UEFN + UE

About Kevin Nappoly:

Kevin Nappoly Rendering & Graphics Lead at Enduring Games, focusing on low-level graphics pipelines, platform specialization, early technology proof-of-concepts, and optimization & data-driven profiling

With a strong background in rendering paradigms, extensive experience in console and PC development, and expertise in customizing game engines, Kevin works to advance the state of real-time graphics in games

Games include Borderlands 4, Risk of Rain 2, Immortals of Aveum, Redfall, and more.

About Adam Creighton

Adam Creighton is the Founder & CEO for Enduring Games, an independent studio in Austin, TX. Inside and outside of his studio, Adam works practical processes & create quality strategic partnerships to elevate the people working in the video game industry

He has contributed to more than 40 titles, including Borderlands 4, Demon's Souls & Godfall for the launch of the PS5, Bugsnax, DOOM, Rocket League, Wolfenstein II: The New Colossus, Warframe & Hob for Nintendo Switch, the Disney Infinity franchise, and many more.

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