Epic Online Services is launching anti-cheat services.
Epic Online Services is launching anti-cheat services.
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Epic Online Services launches free voice chat and anti-cheat features

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Epic Online Services will be launching voice chat and anti-cheat services to all developers for free.

Epic is also revealing its latest social numbers, scaling to over 500 million accounts with 2.7 billion friend connections in Fortnite, Rocket League, and the Epic Games Store.

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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.