Epic Video games has introduced that it’ll make it simpler than ever to hang around and discuss with pals throughout totally different platforms by launching Epic Events. This voice chat service will work throughout Fortnite (on all supported platforms), the Epic Video games Retailer launcher (PC, iOS, and Android), and the Epic Video games app (iOS and Android).
For instance, you can begin a voice get together out of your telephone or PC launcher, ring up a buddy who’s busy taking part in Fortnite on their PlayStation, and even switch that decision out of your telephone to your PC while you get again to your desk. This implies that you could sit in on a voice name by means of the Epic PC Launcher whereas taking part in utterly totally different video games out of your Epic library. Different advantages embrace a seamless method to grouping pals collectively, as Epic says that for those who’re in a voice get together with pals and everybody decides to open Fortnite, then the sport will routinely drop you all into the identical foyer collectively.
This new function is competing straight with Discord, which has been the go-to third-party app for customers for a number of years. Epic’s built-in various goals to let customers convey their social listing, voice channels, and digital avatar with them throughout a number of platforms and from recreation to recreation, whether or not you’re on iOS, Android, PC, or console. Epic has additionally hinted that these voice and avatar programs will probably be built-in straight into Unreal Engine 6, and the instruments will probably be provided to different builders in time. For now, it is at the moment rolling out to Fortnite, and Epic Events will probably be accessible in Rocket League subsequent yr.
In line with Epic’s year-in-review stats, over $1 billion was spent within the retailer in 2025, and it reached an all-time file of 78 million month-to-month lively customers on PC. Earlier this yr, Epic spoke extra about its plans to additional enhance its digital storefront. “Our purpose is to maintain constructing a storefront and launcher that gamers need to have interaction with and use to develop their recreation library, however we’d like to have the ability to join gamers with the sport they need to play on the time they need to play it,” Kyle Billings, director of technique and enterprise operations on the Epic Video games Retailer, stated to GameSpot.