“What Has the Internet Come to?” – Lego and Epic Games Baffle Millions With Huge Announcement

In a major announcement on Thursday, Epic Games revealed that it’s partnering with the LEGO Group to work on building in future a metaverse focusing on the kids. The collaboration will mainly focus on creating an immersive world with many creative digital experiences.

As per the official news from Epic Games, the partnership will simply be a project emphasizing on giving a family-friendly metaverse experience.

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Fans not impressed with the metaverse-centric collaboration of Epic Games and Lego

For those not familiar with the term very well, metaverse, in simple words, means a social network of 3D virtual worlds. It involves real-time live interaction of the people with each other through the help of augmented reality.

And it seems like Epic Games has massive plans to experiment in the metaverse category by blending it with gaming. With the LEGO Group, it’s entering into a long-term partnership to build a fun place for families and kids. It will offer access to tools that will mainly help them in becoming great content creators while growing up.

Furthermore, the collaboration will also focus on a metaverse featuring an exciting world for the kids to play in.

Here’s what the CEO of the LEGO Group, Niels B Christiansen, said about how this partnership will focus on the kids:

“We believe there is huge potential for them to develop life-long skills such as creativity, collaboration, and communication through digital experiences. But we have a responsibility to make them safe, inspiring and beneficial for all.”

Moreover, Epic Games’ CEO and Co-Founder Tim Sweeney also said that they are “excited to come together to build a space in the metaverse that’s fun, entertaining, and made for kids and families.”

Meanwhile, gaming fans didn’t seem too impressed with this latest announcement. Most of them were not able to understand why this project is focusing on the kids anyways. According to them, it’s not the right thing to expose the kids to this category so early. Others were just simply against the concept of metaverse itself.

“What has the internet come to”, wrote one frustrated user.

What are your thoughts on this reveal? Are you excited about the collaboration involving Epic Games and the LEGO Group?

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Also, do you think it will build a safer virtual world for the kids?

Let us know in the comments.