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Epic Games has cut publishing deals with three more studios.

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Epic Games will publish new titles from the makers of The Last Guardian, Limbo, and Control

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 26, 2020
2 min

Epic Games will publish new titles from three well-known and respected game studios: Gen Design (maker of The Last Guardian), Playdead (Inside, Limbo), and...

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Epic Games' Siren demo is an example of digital humans.

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Epic Games acquires facial animation technology maker Cubic Motion

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
March 12, 2020
2 min

Epic Games has acquired Cubic Motion, a provider of automated performance-driven facial animation technology for video games, film, broadcast, and immersive experiences such as...

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ILM used Unreal Engine to build virtual sets that it then projected onto giant LED walls.

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ILM reveals how it used Unreal Engine for ‘The Mandalorian’

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 21, 2020
2 min

Visual-effects production house Industrial Light & Magic published a closer look at some of the new techniques it used for The Mandalorian today. I previously...

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Fortnite is going top secret for Chapter 2 - Season 2.

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Fortnite’s second Season 2 expects you to die

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
February 20, 2020
1 min

Do I need to play the first Fortnite Season 2 to understand what’s happening in the second Season 2? Well, I can find out...

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Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, argued to make the game industry more open in the next decade at the Dice Summit 2020.

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Tim Sweeney: Android is a fake open system, and iOS is worse

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
February 12, 2020
5 min

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney opened the DICE Summit game event in Las Vegas today with a call to make the industry more open...

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Fortnite is hosting a PS4 tournament on February 15 and 16

Posted byby Mike Minotti
February 3, 2020
1 min

Sony announced today that Epic Games is hosting The Fortnite Celebration Cup on February 15 and February 16 as an exclusive tournament for PlayStation...

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"You can't handle corporate synergy of this magnitude."

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Xbox Q2 revenue sinks 21% as Microsoft reloads for next gen

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
January 29, 2020
1 min

Microsoft’s gaming revenue dropped significantly in the second quarter of its fiscal 2020. Xbox’s Q2 revenue plummeted 21% year-over-year during the three-month period ending...

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Blizzard owns your Warcraft 3: Reforged custom games

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
January 29, 2020
3 min

The next Auto Chess or DOTA probably isn’t going to happen in Warcraft 3: Reforged. And if it does, Activision Blizzard is automatically going...

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PlayVS brings Fortnite to high school and college esports tournaments

Posted byby Dean Takahashi
January 22, 2020
2 min

PlayVS will bring organized Fortnite competitions to high schools and colleges in the U.S. PlayVS already uses its software platform to organize popular esports...

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Epic Games Store third-party games hit $251 million in player spending

Posted byby Jeff Grubb
January 14, 2020
2 min

Epic Games is celebrating the growth of its PC gaming store by sharing a number of informational tidbits about its performance. Most notably, the...

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