The partnership will integrate Oculus Rift into the Unreal Development Kit, giving the virtual reality technology a chance to spread.
Last year, Epic Games sold a 40 percent ownership stake to China’s Tencent, according to an interview with Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney. That makes the deal one of the biggest investments in games last year, and it values Epic …
Epic formed Impossible Studios out of the ashes of Big Huge Games, which developed Kingdoms of Amalur, back in June.
Valve co-founder Gabe Newell is being honored for his contributions to the gaming industry at the 16th D.I.C.E. Awards on Thursday, Feb. 7, 2013.
Gears of War maker Epic Games today announced the departure of design director Cliff Bleszinski.
Epic Games is a developer famous for making technically proficient shooters. However, the company's most profitable game is an iOS title, Infinity Blade.
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Epic Games is formally announcing its Unreal Engine 4 technology today after the close of the Electronic Entertainment Expo (E3), the game industry’s big trade show.
Word about the new engine, which is the foundation for the next decade of …
Epic Games revealed today its foundation for the next decade of graphics technology in video games. Speaking to Wired, Epic’s founder Tim Sweeney unveiled the Unreal Engine 4 technology.
The image above is from the new engine. It enables next-generation …
Here’s our photo gallery from the DICE Summit 2012. This year’s conference drew more than 700 game industry luminaries to a wide variety of talks on the art and science of making video games.…
Here’s some of the stories that ran only on GamesBeat this week. We’re running more stories exclusively on the GamesBeat section of VentureBeat now, particularly when the stories are mainly of interest to game readers. The broader interest stories are …
The Elder Scrolls V: Skyrim took home the award for game of the year today from the prestigious Academy of Interactive Sciences. The Interactive Awards took place at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas, where 700 game developers and industry …
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As chief executive of Gears of War developer Epic Games, Tim Sweeney has been on the forefront of video game graphics for a couple of decades. So the DICE Summit, which is giving him a high honor today, turned to …
Tim Sweeney is one of the gods of 3D graphics in video games. He is the founder and chief executive of Epic Games, the maker of blockbuster video games from Unreal to Gears of War. At the upcoming 2012 D.I.C.E. …
