Epic Games’ former president Mike Capps joins Unity as an internal adviser

A former Epic Games’ president joins one his former company’s main rivals in the game-tools business.

Unity Technologies announced today that Mike Capps has joined as internal adviser to the company’s research and executive teams. This move has the industry figurehead moving from the maker of one of the most popular multiplatform game engines, Unreal Engine, to its direct competitor, which Unity CEO John Riccitiello said at the GamesBeat Summit this week sees 800 million game downloads a month. Capps will use the knowledge gained from 10 years at Epic to help Unity expand its reach into the game development world.