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... Continue Reading 5 min
Epic Games acquires photogrammetry startup Quixel to make games more realistic Posted byby Dean Takahashi November 12, 2019 3 min Epic Games announced it has acquired Quixel, a startup that created a huge “photogrammetry” asset library of real world imagery that can be used... Continue Reading 3 min
Rocket League is dropping lootboxes Posted byby Jeff Grubb August 6, 2019 2 min Rocket League is one of biggest success stories when it comes to live-service games. It debuted in 2015 for PlayStation 4 and PC, and... Continue Reading 2 min
Epic Games Store criticism has devolved into conspiracy theories Posted byby Jeff Grubb August 6, 2019 3 min I have some issues with the Epic Games Store, but I’m done talking about them. I feel like my criticisms are fair and legitimate,... Continue Reading 3 min
How Devolver Digital pursues the indie fringe and brings it to mainstream gamers Posted byby Dean Takahashi June 28, 2019 17 min No one does a game trade show quite like Devolver Digital. The company set up its faux booth and trailers outside of the Electronic... Continue Reading 17 min
Why Epic Games called an open platform truce with Microsoft Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 2, 2019 7 min A couple of years ago, Microsoft and Epic Games executives were mad at each other. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney called out Microsoft because... Continue Reading 7 min
Microsoft’s HoloLens 2 for developers will get Unreal Engine 4 support in May Posted byby Dean Takahashi May 2, 2019 5 min Microsoft will launch its HoloLens 2 Development Edition for $3,500 later this year in its latest effort to kick off mixed-reality experiences, and Epic... Continue Reading 5 min
CEO Tim Sweeney: Epic Games Store will ‘hastily’ retreat from exclusives if Valve changes revenue model Posted byby Giancarlo Valdes April 25, 2019 2 min The war between rival digital storefronts on PC wages on. On Wednesday, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney made a comment on Twitter about what... Continue Reading 2 min
John Riccitiello interview — Is Epic buying Unity’s developers? Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 22, 2019 15 min John Riccitiello, the CEO of Unity Technologies, has always liked Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Games, and the healthy competition between the game... Continue Reading 15 min
Epic CEO on 250 million Fortnite players, digital humans, and $100 million dev fund Posted byby Dean Takahashi March 20, 2019 16 min Epic Games dumped a bunch of news about the state of the Unreal Engine at its keynote talk at the Game Developers Conference today.... Continue Reading 16 min