Our latest coverage of Epic Games.
The gaming industry continues to feel the effects of the COVID-19 virus as six more gaming and tech companies announce the cancellation of their events as a precaution against the novel coronavirus. Epic Games has cancelled Unreal Fest Europe 2020 in Prague; Riot Games abandons their planned Valorant hands-on event this month; Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2020, which was [...]
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Epic Games is on the verge of another legal battle over another Fortnite dance emote. This time around, it’s the Halloween-themed “Pump It Up” emote that’s taking the flak from the Dancing Pumpkin Man himself, Matt Geiler. Geiler is threatening to sue the studio for “stealing” his groovy dance moves if they don’t comply with the cease and desist order. [...]
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Epic Games and Fortnite have been slapped with a class-action lawsuit in a North Carolina District Court over a security breach that have allowed hackers to access the personal information of over 200 million user accounts. Epic acknowledged the security flaw back in January after it was pointed out by independent cybersecurity firm Check Point. Here’s an excerpt from our [...]
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Epic Games and their recently launched Epic Games Store has been the topic of many debates and controversies especially among die-hard Steam fans on the subject of their growing library of exclusive games. Epic Games founder and CEO Tim Sweeney defends the Game Store's for exclusive titles in a series of posts on Twitter. “We believe exclusives are the only [...]
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2018 was a big year for the video games industry. In fact, video game data research site SuperData called 2018 “the biggest year for digital games and interactive entertainment. Ever.” in their recently published year-in-review report. According to SuperData, the gaming and interactive media industry grew by 13% last year. This is largely due to the rise of cross-platform gaming [...]
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The biggest video game in the West is about to get much bigger. In an announcement made on March 8, 2018 Epic Games revealed their plans to bring Fortnite Battle Royale to mobile. Signups for the iOS version start on March 12 on the official site. An Android version will take several months, likely because Epic has to optimize the [...]
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If there's one story more prominent in the gaming press these days than the success of Playerunknown's Battlegrounds, its the rampant cheating in Playerunknown's Battlegrounds. Despite banning over a million (paid) accounts, PUBG continues to face an onslaught of cheaters and hackers, primarily originating in The People's Republic of China. Fortunately for Epic Games, their Battle Royale title, Fortnite, mainly [...]
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Fortnite hit a new peak of 3.4 million concurrent users this past weekend (Feb 3-4 2018) before suffering a major outage due to the high server demand. Epic Games posted an article on the outage earlier today titled Postmortem Of Service Outage At 3.4M CCU that goes into some of the details on how the meltdown played out. The post [...]
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In a frank post on the Paragon subreddit this week Epic Games laid out how things stand for their 3D MOBA Paragon. The main issue facing the game is that despite continued updates, it has failed to attract a large enough audience to make the project viable. While this has been the case for months now, the breakout success of [...]
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Fortnite has enjoyed enormous success since introducing its Battle Royale mode in September of 2017. Fortnite even won our prestigious Clone of the Year award for 2017! It seems Epic's animated third person shooter has kept up the momentum into 2018. As of January, Fornite Battle Royale (now an independent game) has surpassed the 40 million player mark, hitting a [...]
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