Lego and Epic Games partnership aims for a kid-friendly metaverse

That Lego's foray into the metaverse isn't with TT Games, the development studio behind the Lego video games, is notable. The decision could be related to workplace issues brought to light in a Polygon report from January. In it, current and former employees of the studio described a toxic work environment where management's ambitious plans for its latest game, "The Skywalker Saga," came at the cost of 80- to 100-hour workweeks. One issue that reportedly came to a head during development was the use of Epic's Unreal Engine. According to Polygon, employees warned management that continuing to use the studio's proprietary game engine, NTT, for "The Skywalker Saga" could cause problems in an already strained development timeline.