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Jay Peters

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    Epic wants Unreal Engine to be better on Apple platforms.

    Despite Epic’s disagreements with Apple, it also wants to bring Unreal Engine on Apple platforms to “feature parity with Windows,” according to a blog post.

    The post spells out a bunch of things Epic doing to improve Unreal Engine, including experimental support for making Apple Vision Pro content.

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    Jay Peters
    Amazon is reportedly spending more on X ads.

    Amazon CEO Andy Jassy was “involved in the decision,” The Wall Street Journal reports. Apple, which pulled ads from X after Elon Musk made antisemitic posts, is has also apparently “had discussions about testing out ads on the platform.”

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    Jay Peters
    Summer Game Fest returns on June 6th.

    The event starts with a two-hour, Geoff Keighley-hosted Live Kickoff show on June 6th. From June 7th through the 9th, media and influencers will be at an in-person event in Los Angeles to check out games.

    Last year, Summer Game Fest was filled with great games. Hopefully the 2025 show continues the tradition.

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    Jay Peters
    Threads adds more than 1 million new users a day.

    It also has more than 320 million monthly active users, Meta CEO Mark Zuckerberg said on today’s earnings call. Last night, Bluesky announced that it surpassed 30 million total users.

    During the call, CFO Susan Li also said that Meta is working on “a number of updates to our recommendation systems” for Threads.