Epic Games

• Creator-made islands accounted for 1/3 of ‘Fortnite’ game time in 2024–and earned their developers $352 million
• Epic wants people to make more games. It’s creating–and owning–the marketplace.

  The Fortnite owner has dabbled in metaverse-esque events before (remember the Travis Scott concert?), but now it's rolled out Fab, a one-stop digital asset marketplace that's designed to give developers the building blocks to homebrew metaverse experiences and video games alike.

  
• Disney takes $1.5 billion stake in Epic Games to build an “entertainment universe”

  Disney has taken a $1.5 billion stake in Epic Games, with the two announcing they plan to build an "expansive and open games and entertainment universe connected to Fortnite."