Epic Games has acquired SuperAwesome, a kidtech company.
Epic Games acquired SuperAwesome, a kidtech company.
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Epic Games acquires kid tech platform SuperAwesome

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Epic Games has announced the acquisition of SuperAwesome, a pioneer in the “kid tech” market that provides children with what it says are safe digital experiences and age-appropriate advertising. Terms of the deal were not disclosed.

The move comes days after Epic announced its $15 million investment in Manticore, which has created a platform to enable anyone to make games. Today’s announcement also shows that Epic isn’t slowing its deal-making momentum — even while embroiled in an antitrust suit with Apple over App Store policies.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.