*insert a ytp with joker and his reacharound snyder cut line here*
There needs to be an Unreal Extended Universe now. Fortnite should not really be counted into that. I mean they could really just go back to the unreal stuff and do it right and maybe release cut content and such on anniversaries. There's a rumor that only tim sweeney has that stuff in his vault still. Like making mappacks on anniversary of the games of cut levels and such, the biggest of that was the original Unreal where we've actually only seen a fraction of all cut levels, even though we did see majority of cut weapons and other content thanks to all those unrealed builds etc recovered.
But what Unreal Extended Universe would be, I'd firmly incorporate games like Devastation, Gears of War, maybe even Pariah/Warpath into it because those games started as projects in the Unreal universe and don't necessarily contradict the canon not any more than some misshaps already existing within the mainline games. Devastation was an official Unreal game at one point but after it left Infogrames they tried to rework it on an updated engine as a standalone game, except that it still contains a few unreal weapons and basically serves as a prequel, liandri even exists in devastation as a small company and its a hit-and-miss moment. There are also various references in pariah/warpath and I believe since the game was started in 2002 that it was originally going to be some kind of addon for unreal warfare at the time warfare didn't have singleplayer yet as such and that also spun off into gears of war which basically shares the same aesthetics as ut3. So there you go, it all shares the same universe basically only it's never explicitly stated because politics and rights and this and that.
And its really sad come to think of it. Maybe the guys who continued gears should also try to continue unreal/ut side of things too.
Just think about it. And now even warframe had kind of a crossover with ut. Which come to think of it, the original warframe idea was that dark sector game which was originally developed as a next-step ut with massive multiplayer, so a sucessor to ut maybe taking place again in the same universe.
So yea..you can totally have such extended universe and do I have to remind people that ut2004 literally has reused/discarded unreal warfare content including the fucking gears logo basically, I mean the cog symbols are all over some dropships found on maps in the game and even in the intro that dropship flying above xan totally has the COG logo you can bloody see it right there in the ut2k4 intro...
So it's all confirmed...LIANDRI ILLUMINATI CONFIRMED. All of it has a shared universe guyz.