Less than a week after Epic Games awarded creators participating in its $5 million Unreal Dev Grants program, the developer of the hugely successful online video game Fortnite has announced a new $100 million grant initiative known as Epic MegaGrants. Just like with its now-defunct grants program, Epic is targeting creators who work with its game development suite Unreal Engine 4. The grant initiative, whose amounts range between $5,000 and $500,000, was announced at the Game Developers Conference. Announcing Epic MegaGrants, a $100,000,000 initiative for #UE4 games, media and entertainment, enterprise, education, and tools, including open-source work for the 3D
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