Epic Games has launched Fab, an online marketplace for buying, selling, sharing and discovering digital assets. Fab supports different types of creators with content for use across Unreal Engine, Unity 3D and Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN). Developers will be able to access Fab in the Unreal Engine 5 Editor, while “Fortnite” creators can look forward to tapping game-ready assets through Fab in UEFN. Epic says Fab will eventually support all game engines. It’s live now on the Web, though the Fab UEFN integration “is undergoing maintenance” while the Unreal Engine 5 Editor implementation is “coming soon.”

“You can probably think of it as the necessary foundation for a metaverse, should Epic Games ever really want to build it,” VentureBeat writes.

“Fab is the successor to the Unreal Engine Marketplace and Sketchfab Store,” and the new home for the massive Quixel Megascans asset library, Epic explains in a blog post.

Epic Games aggregated marketplaces like Sketchfab “through acquisitions over the years,” according to VentureBeat, citing a GamesBeat interview in which Epic VP Bill Clifford said the company’s founder and CEO Tim Sweeney always held it “his mission” to join the assets of the Unreal Engine Marketplace, the Sketchfab store, ArtStation and Quixel Megascans.

Per The Verge, “Epic is offering an 88 percent revenue share for goods sold on Fab, matching the revenue share it offers developers on the Epic Games Store.”

Animation Magazine describes Fab as “a unified content marketplace … a one-stop destination.”

The Fab marketplace lets you “choose the license that meets your needs,” Animation Magazine points out. It “offers a Creative Commons license and the personal or professional tier of a Standard License,” while “the Fab Standard License enables you to use the assets, including Megascans, in any game engine or tool you want.”

In the coming months, Epic’s Fab expansion plans include adding “’Roblox’ and ‘Minecraft’ assets, access to MetaHuman, a new listing review system, product specific FAQs, a pipeline to make it easy for creators to publish content directly from UEFN to Fab, and new analytics to enhance the seller experience,” Animation Magazine reports.