Epic Games to update Unreal Engine pricing for devs outside game industry
Game Developer
OCTOBER 5, 2023
Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney says the company began running into financial problems "about 10 weeks ago."
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Employees at Epic-owned music platform Bandcamp are unionizing
Game Developer
MARCH 16, 2023
Comprised of all of Bandcamp staff across the US, Bandcamp United has called on its leadership and parent company Epic Games to willingly recognize that it exists.
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Disney invests $1.5bn in Epic Games and announces major Fortnite partnership
GamesIndustry.biz
FEBRUARY 7, 2024
The Walt Disney Company has invested $1.5 billion to acquire an equity stake in Epic Games, and has announced plans for a major collaboration with Fortnite. Disney and Epic described the project as a 'open, persistent, social universe'. Disney and Epic described the project as a 'open, persistent, social universe'.
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Bandcamp has successfully unionized at Epic Games
Game Developer
MAY 22, 2023
Before the weekend started, Bandcamp's employees had a majority vote to become the first union inside of parent company Epic Games.
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Disney Make $1.5B Investment in Epic Games
Game From Scratch
FEBRUARY 8, 2024
Investment in Epic Games Disney have just announced they are making a $1.5 Billion dollar investment in Epic Games and announced a massive partnership in both Fortnite and Unreal Engine usage. Investment in Epic Games appeared first on GameFromScratch.com. GameFromScratch.com Disney Make $1.5B
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Massive Layoffs At Epic Games
Game From Scratch
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
GameFromScratch.com Massive Layoffs At Epic Games In another blow to the game development industry, Epic Games have just announced massive layoffs across the company. Part of the layoffs include divesting of two recently purchased companies, Bandcamp and Super Awesome.
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Apple denies violating court order over alternative payments
GamesIndustry.biz
APRIL 15, 2024
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Apple has disputed Epic Games' claims that it is violating the court order from the 2021 antitrust trial between the two companies, and has called on a federal judge to reject the Fortnite firm's request to hold Apple in contempt of court. Read more
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Epic turned down $147m deal to put Fortnite on Google Play | Epic vs Google
GamesIndustry.biz
NOVEMBER 9, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Day three of the Epic vs Google antitrust trial offered insight into a previous dispute between the two companies regarding the initial launch of Fortnite on Google Play – including a $147 million deal proposed by Google. Read more
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Epic laying off more than 800
GamesIndustry.biz
SEPTEMBER 28, 2023
Epic Games today confirmed it is laying off about 830 people, or roughly 16% of the company. It is also parting ways with another 250 employees through the sale of music storefront Bandcamp and the spinoff of "most of" the youth marketing company SuperAwesome into its own separate business. Read more
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What the current wave of layoffs means for the games industry
GamesIndustry.biz
OCTOBER 5, 2023
In the past couple of weeks alone, companies including Ascendant Studios , Beamdog , Crystal Dynamics , Roblox , Blizzard , Epic Games , Team17 , Naughty Dog , Twitch and Keywords have all dismissed varying numbers of staff, ranging from 10 Hearthstone developers to more than 800 Epic employees. Read more
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Lego, dog-fooding, and physics: Epic's plan's for UEFN | GDC 2024
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 20, 2024
It's been almost a year since Epic Games launched Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), and the company seems quite pleased with how it's gone. UEFN has seen a base of around 15,000 creators publish some 80,000 "islands" so far.
Microsoft, EA, Activision, Ubisoft and Epic face game addiction lawsuit
GamesIndustry.biz
NOVEMBER 8, 2023
Four of the biggest companies in the industry have been targeted by a lawsuit accusing them of enabling video game addiction. A complaint filed on October 30 in the Eastern District of Arkansas, spotted by Insider Gaming , names Microsoft, EA, Activision, Ubisoft, and Epic Games, as well as some of their studios, as defendants.
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Phil Spencer wants to see other digital storefronts on Xbox
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 27, 2024
Xbox head Phil Spencer has said that he wants to see more digital retailers on the console, such as the Epic Games Store and Itch.io. Consider] our history as the Windows company," said Spencer. There's real value in that." Read more
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Judge orders Epic, Google to hold settlement talks | Epic vs Google
GamesIndustry.biz
NOVEMBER 30, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Epic Games and Google have been ordered to hold settlement talks before the jury of the ongoing antitrust trial makes its verdict.
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Engines of Woe | This Week in Business
GamesIndustry.biz
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Unreal and Unity are the two biggest game development engines on the market, and the companies behind them have a lot more in common than that. Yesterday Epic laid off 830 people , or roughly 16% of the company. Check every Friday for a new entry. For example, they've both had very bad weeks. Read more
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What is an open salary policy and should you consider having one?
GamesIndustry.biz
APRIL 5, 2023
At GDC last month, Lightforge Games CEO Matt Schembari shared the studio's approach to salary transparency and the benefits across the company to have an open salary policy. Schembari is part of the group of Blizzard and Epic veterans who formed Lightforge Games in 2020.
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Xsolla leadership changes continue with new chief strategy officer
GamesIndustry.biz
FEBRUARY 14, 2024
In December, David Stelzer was appointed president after working for Epic Games for eight years as a senior director. Alexander 'Shurick' Agapitov, who founded the company in 2005, will remain as Xsolla's CEO. He previously worked as head of studio for virtual reality developer Survios and Skydance's interactive division.
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Epic Games incentivizes developers to release older titles on its digital store
GamesIndustry.biz
OCTOBER 16, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Epic Games has unveiled Now on Epic , which will allow companies that bring their existing titles to the Epic Game Store to earn 100% of their revenue during the first six months.
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From Epic to the EU, Apple is all about the drama | Opinion
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 8, 2024
On the eve of the European Union’s new rules forcing Apple to open up the iOS software ecosystem coming into force, the company announced that Epic’s developer account was being shut down , as it had proven itself to be untrustworthy in the past and thus allowing it to run a third-party app store would be an unacceptable risk.
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Epic Games Store to trade revenue share for exclusivity window
GamesIndustry.biz
AUGUST 23, 2023
The Epic Games Store is taking another approach to combating Steam, as Epic today announced a new opt-in First Run Program that will trade the company's share of revenues for the first six months of release in exchange for exclusivity. Read more
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Tim Sweeney believes the metaverse is "happening for real"
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 22, 2023
Epic Games showcased its vision for a metaverse at today’s State of Unreal, during which it unveiled more details about the economy around its Unreal Editor for Fortnite , a new unified marketplace, Fab, which offers assets across several game engines, new Metahumans animation tools, and more. Read more
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ADL criticizes Fortnite, Call of Duty for lax stance on Holocaust denial
GamesIndustry.biz
APRIL 10, 2023
The ADL has released its 2023 Holocaust Denial Report Card, and while none of the social media platforms or gaming companies it assessed did an exemplary job of preventing and responding to users denying Nazi Germany's systemic murder of millions of people, some did notably worse than others. Read more
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Dean Gichukie’s studio Kunta Content delivers authentic African stories
PreMortem.Games
OCTOBER 30, 2023
Around the same time, he delved into the world of video games, playing titles like GTA, Scarface, Ratchet & Clank, God of War, Call of Duty, and FIFA. He navigated the challenges of running a tech company, pitching to investors, collaborating with artists, and building the platform. One of the stories I wrote was a game.
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SAG-AFTRA talks with game companies fail to reach an agreement
GamesIndustry.biz
SEPTEMBER 29, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox Scheduled talks between SAG-AFTRA and ten video games companies have failed to reach an agreement about the rights of voice actors and performers.
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Supreme Court: Apple doesn't need to open App Store payments yet
GamesIndustry.biz
AUGUST 9, 2023
The Supreme Court has refused Epic Games' attempt to have Apple's App Store rules changed immediately, according to a Reuters report. It's the latest escalation of the 2021 court case between the two companies.
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ESRB asks FTC to approve facial recognition age checker
GamesIndustry.biz
JULY 24, 2023
In collaboration with digital identity firm Yoti, Epic Games subsidiary and software company SuperAwesome, the proposal claims that the Privacy-Protective Facial Age Estimation is said to accurately determine a person's age. Read more
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Understanding the Great Video Game Recession. Or Not.
The Bottom Feeder
MARCH 5, 2024
The video game industry is seeing a big wave of layoffs and game company closures, and it may be that we have begun the long, slow, agonizing bleed of a recession. But I have a whole lot of my own personal skin in this game, and I've been writing and speaking on this exact topic for a long time. Our next game!
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Fortnite's evolution is delivering on metaverse dreams | Opinion
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 24, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox On paper, a company announcing – in effect – that they're upgrading the modding tools for their online game should not be an industry-shaking event.
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Player spending on Epic Games Store reached $820m in 2022
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 22, 2023
Epic Games has released updated facts and figures from its growing PC marketplace, and given some insight into what developers and publishers can expect this year. Here's what you need to know: Read more
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Are Remedy and Epic right to make Alan Wake 2 digital-only? | Opinion
GamesIndustry.biz
MAY 26, 2023
One of the games shown during Sony’s latest PlayStation Showcase this week was Alan Wake 2. The survival horror game from Remedy (and published by Epic Games) looked great, but there was a surprise piece of information that came out afterwards: it will be a digital-only release. ’ Read more
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Epic Games Store woos third party support
Game Daily
OCTOBER 24, 2023
Since its launch in 2018, Epic Games Store has spent bucket loads of money on giving away free games, in order to attract PC gamers away from Steam. The company says it’s targeting a relatively modest increase to 70 million MAUs as of the current quarter. Success has been hard to come by.
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Gamefam and the business of advertising on game platforms
GamesIndustry.biz
AUGUST 1, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox With the proliferation of online games, some titles have been positioning themselves more as platforms, such as Roblox, Minecraft, and Fortnite. One such company is Gamefam. Read more
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Donald Mustard is leaving Epic Games
Game Development News
SEPTEMBER 11, 2023
Epic Games’ chief creative officer Donald Mustard has announced that he is leaving the company after nearly 25 years in the games industry - MCV/DEVELOP
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Game companies enact callous layoffs, amid their own competence controversies
Game Daily
OCTOBER 4, 2023
P hoto by Anna Shvets Gaming workers are fed up with employers and contractors that treat them like nothing more than digits on a spreadsheet. She is running a Google Doc for unemployed gaming workers. Launched last month, it features people looking for work, a list of companies hiring, and a list of recruiters.
US Congress "disappointed" with companies' response to extremism concerns
GamesIndustry.biz
MARCH 3, 2023
Sign up for the GI Daily here to get the biggest news straight to your inbox The US Congresswoman leading efforts to learn more about how the games industry is dealing with the rise of extremism in online multiplayer games has expressed frustration at the response from leading publishers and platform holders. Read more
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Epic’s ‘biggest ever bet’ is a Web3 game creativity tool
Game Daily
MARCH 23, 2023
Tim Sweeney’s stage presence isn’t likely to attract the attention of the Oscars or Grammys live show organizers, but in yesterday’s State of Unreal presentation at Game Developer Conference, he fairly electrified his audience. The Epic Games boss lacks the flash and manufactured charisma of many tech execs.
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All About Epic Games
Game Designing
JUNE 14, 2022
People ‘in the know’ when it comes to modern video game technology understand precisely who Epic Games is. Operating one of the largest games in the world (as far as popularity and number of accounts are concerned) in Fortnite, this company records over 350 million accounts and an impressive total of 2.5
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From Concept to Success: A Deep Dive Into Our Popular Gaming Solutions
Logic Simplified
DECEMBER 7, 2023
Game as a Service (GaaS) has fundamentally transformed the gaming industry. There is a shift noticed from the traditional model of releasing a complete, standalone game to it now becoming an ongoing, evolving experience. GaaS is shaping a more dynamic and interconnected gaming landscape for the creators and the gamers.
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Anylysis • The games industry is thriving, so why lay off 8,000 people?
PreMortem.Games
NOVEMBER 23, 2023
Developer Epic Games fires 830 people this year. The games industry is doing better than it’s ever done. According to videogamelayoffs.com , a site that tracks public announcements across the industry, a reported total of 8,000 people have lost their jobs in gaming in 2023. Top image: Fortnite.
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Top Unreal Game Development Companies in 2024
Logic Simplified
APRIL 1, 2024
Looking for a Real Unreal Game Development Company? The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased. The potential for building epic games on Unreal by game app developers and creators across industries has increased.
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How do games get picked for giveaways on Epic, GoG, etc.?
Ask a Game Dev
JANUARY 5, 2024
People representing the platform (Epic, Steam, GamePass, etc.) choose games they want to give away and they reach out to the company handling the game's distribution (the game's publisher or studio). Short questions: Ask a Game Dev on Twitter Long questions: Ask a Game Dev on Tumblr Frequent Questions: The FAQ
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Roblox for game development: Pros, Cons & Future
iXie gaming
APRIL 24, 2023
Epic Games recently announced an expansive creation toolkit for its juggernaut of a game you may know as Fortnite. But did you know that Epic is not the first company to do this? Roblox arrived at the gaming scene at a time when user-generated content in games was mostly uncharted territory.
Olivier Madiba’s Kiro’o Games is building a Pan-African entertainment ecosystem
PreMortem.Games
JUNE 30, 2023
Kiro’o Games is an ambitious game development company based in Yaounde, Cameroon. Founder and CEO Olivier Madiba is pursuing his dream of creating the biggest African game studio by building a Pan-African entertainment ecosystem which encapsulates games, comics, animation and even restaurants. This is his story.
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