OMG! 😱 You won’t BELIEVE what Epic Games is doing to Fortnite now! 🤯 They’re resurrecting dead actors with AI to voice Darth Vader! 💀 Is nothing sacred anymore? 😭 First, they ruin gaming with endless crossovers, and now this? 😡 Prepare for AI-generated chaos in the metaverse! 🤖
So, last month, the Dark Side infiltrated Fortnite, and not in a cool, lightsaber-dueling kind of way. 🙅♀️ We’re talking about AI James Earl Jones, resurrected from the digital graveyard 👻 (with “familial permissions,” whatever that means 🤔), to voice Darth Vader. Apparently, the legendary James Earl Jones 👴 (RIP, September 2024, aged 93…gone but not forgotten…or maybe now he is 🤷♀️) wasn’t safe from the clutches of technology. 🤖 They slapped Google’s Gemini 2.0 Flash model 🧠 and ElevenLabs’ Flash v2.5 🎤 on him, and BAM! 💥 Instant AI Vader. Some fans are like, “Meh,” 😒 but Vader’s out there, roaming the map, 🗺️ belting out tunes 🎶 (because why not?), and narrating your gameplay. 🎤 Like we needed another reason to mute everyone. 🔇
But wait, there’s more! 🤡 At the State of Unreal 2025, Epic decided that AI Vader was just a warm-up act. 🎤 They’re unleashing tools for creators to COOK UP their OWN AI-powered NPCs! 🍳 Imagine the possibilities! 🤯 Now EVERYONE can create annoying, unskippable characters in Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN). 🤮 They demoed this “Persona Device,” 📱 which lets you design characters that can actually TALK back to you! 🗣️ You can customize their voice, tone, and personality! 🎭 So, you can make them as sassy or as cringe as you want. 😬
Epic shamelessly declared, “We’re taking what we learned from Darth Vader and sharing the underlying technology.” 🤦♀️ As if we asked for any of this! They then paraded out Mr. Buttons, 🤖 a sassy NPC who delivered real-time dialogue like a malfunctioning robot comedian. 🤣 This is the future, people! Get ready for a world where every video game character is trying to be your friend, or worse, trying to sell you something. 💰
But the chaos doesn’t stop there! 🎉 They’re also dropping a tidal wave of new IP assets into the mix. 🌊 Squid Game is coming to Fortnite on June 27, just in time to traumatize a new generation. 😥 And next year, get ready for Avatar: The Last Airbender content! 💨 Because who needs originality when you can just recycle other people’s ideas? ♻️ Oh, and Fortnite LEGO is getting a Brick Editor on June 17! 🧱 So, you can build your own islands, brick by painful brick. 🤕
If you’re a masochist 😈 and want to witness this train wreck in all its glory, you can watch the State of Unreal 2025 presentation on the Unreal YouTube channel. 📺 They even have a tech demo trailer for The Witcher 4, 🐺 because apparently, they haven’t learned their lesson about ruining beloved franchises. 🤦♂️
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