Epic Games, Interactive Entertainment Service Provider with 3D engine technology

Professional gamers may be no stranger to Epic Games. Not just a term, in fact Epic Games is one of the video game developers from America. Having a great position, this company certainly has a long history.

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Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina. The company was founded in 1991 by Tim Sweeney (a video programmer) as Potomac Computer Systems and was originally located in his childhood home in Potomac, Maryland.

After releasing its first commercial video game, ZZT (1991), the company became Epic MegaGames, Inc. in early 1992, brought in Mark Rein, who continued to serve as vice president of the company. The studio headquarters moved to Cary in 1999, after which the studio's name was simplified to Epic Games.

Epic Games developed the Unreal Engine, a commercially available game engine that also powers internally developed video games such as Fortnite and the Unreal series, Gears of Warand Infinity Blade. In 2014, Guinness World Records named the Unreal Engine the "Most Successful Video Game Engine". This company has produced a lot the best online games around the world, so that players from any country can enjoy it.

Epic Games owns video game developers Chair Entertainment and Psyonix and cloud-based software developer Cloudgine, and operates the eponymous sub-studios in Seattle, England, Berlin, Yokohama, and Seoul.

Although Sweeney remains the majority owner, Tencent acquired a 48,4% stake in the company in 2012, accounting for 40% of Epic's total, as part of a deal to move Epic to a new model. games-as-a-service. As of August 2020, the company's stock is valued at $17,3 billion.

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Epic Games is known for games such as ZZT developed by founder Tim Sweeney, various shareware titles including Jazz Jackrabbit and Epic Pinball, the Unreal video game series, which were used as showcases for their Unreal Engine.

There is also the Gears of War series which is now owned by The Coalition and Xbox Game Studios, Infinity Blade, Shadow Complex, Bulletstorm, and Fortnite.

Unreal Engine

Epic has four successful game engines in the video game industry. Each Unreal Engine includes a comprehensive suite of graphics rendering, audio processing, and physics capabilities that can be customized extensively to meet the specific needs of game developers who don't want to code their own engine from scratch.

Epic's four engines are Unreal Engine 1, Unreal Engine 2 (including versions 2.5 and 2.X), Unreal Engine 3, and Unreal Engine 4. Epic also announced Unreal Engine 5, which will be available in mid-2021. Epic also supports Unreal Marketplace, a digital store where content creators can sell Unreal assets to other developers.

Epic Games Store

Epic announced its own Epic Games Store, an open digital storefront for games, on December 4, 2018, which launched a few days later with the presentation of The Game Awards 2018.

Unlike Valve's Steam storefront, which takes 30% of revenue (30/70 split agreement) from the sale of a game, the Epic Game Store will take 12%, preempting the 5% for games developed on Unreal Engine.

Anticipate that these lower revenue sharing agreements will attract developers to it.

Epic Online Service

Epic Online Services is a free SDK based on code Fortnite Epic which enables developers to implement cross-platform play features in their games, including matchmaking, buddy lists, leaderboards, and achievements.

With support for Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, iOS and Android systems. It was first released to all in May 2020