Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina. The company was founded by Tim Sweeney as Potomac Computer Systems in 1991, originally located in his parents' house in Potomac, Maryland. Following his first commercial video game release, ZZT (1991), the company became Epic MegaGames, Inc. in early 1992 and brought on Mark Rein, who is the company's vice president to date. Moving their headquarters to Cary in 1999, the studio's name was simplified to Epic Games.
Epic Games develops the Unreal Engine, a commercially available game engine which also powers their internally developed video games, such as Fortnite and the Unreal, Gears of War and Infinity Blade series. In 2014, Unreal Engine was named the 'most successful videogame engine' by Guinness World Records.
Fortnite top 1 site. Epic Games owns video game developers Chair Entertainment and Psyonix, as well as cloud-based software developer Cloudgine, and operates eponymous sub-studios in Seattle, England, Berlin, Yokohama and Seoul. While Sweeney remains the majority shareholder, Tencent acquired a 48.4% outstanding stake, equating to 40% of total Epic, in the company in 2012, as part of an agreement aimed at moving Epic Games towards a games as a service model. Following the release of the popular Fortnite Battle Royale in 2017, the company gained additional investments that enabled to expand its Unreal Engine offerings, establish esport events around Fortnite, and launch the Epic Games Store. As of August 2020, the company has a US$17.3 billion equity valuation.
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Epic Games is launching a new social game called Fortnite's Spy Within, which is the company's version of popular social deduction titles like Werewolf and Among Us.
This new Fornite experience is based on and named after the popular Fortnite Creative user-generated map, Spy Within, which gamers/creators KKslider and Dolphin Dom made. A lot of players might view this as predatory, as Epic Games is trying to muscle in on the turf of Among Us, a popular indie title. But it's a familiar pattern, as Among Us is based on the older Werewolf title and Fortnite's battle royale mode is based on the design of PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. Epic's model is to evolve Fortnite to be whatever it needs to be to hang on to its users as it becomes a sort of proto 'metaverse.'
Spy Within is a new limited-time event for the holidays.
While Among Us came out in 2018, it skyrocketed in popularity this year after streamers started playing the simple 2D game. And that inspired KKslider and Dolphin Dom to build a version inside of Fortnite, which has a section of the map where players can create their own environments for games, dubbed Fornite Creative.
In Spy Within, players are dressed as characters from Fortnite, the popular battle royale game that has had more than 350 million downloads. Spy Within has two players, known as the spies, trying to eliminate other players in the space station without revealing their identities. They must do this before the rest of the crew (eight other players) completes their tasks or votes the spies out.
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Players can use the new Fortnite video chat feature from Houseparty to meet and find the spy. Epic Games acquired Houseparty as a synchronous face-to-face social network with video communication on mobile and the desktop.
Houseparty is bringing together eight of Twitch's most popular streamers, like Ninja and Dr Lupo, to play Fortnite's Spy Within with comedian and actress, Sarah Silverman, and TV personality and digital star, David Dobrik. Spy Within is a new limited time Fortnite event for the holidays where players have to team up to root out a player who's working to undermine them within their team. Sarah, David and the streamers will use the new Fortnite video chat feature from Houseparty to meet, collaborate and find the spy. It is airing starting at 3 p.m. Pacific time on December 15.
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