… Epic's own Fortnite runs like butter in Unreal 5, but whether other games' performance woes are the fault of Epic's tools or its customers' use of them, the end result is still the same. …
The 1,000 developers that Epic Games laid off in March were , in the words of CEO Tim Sweeney, of "once-in-a-lifetime" quality—and a website that compiles their resumes proves it. The ex-Epic Awesome People List comprises 545 entries and shows just how wide and deep the layoffs cut. …
… Epic Games, on the other hand, let go of 1,000 employees just two months ago , with one employee saying , "We only had a slight hint that the company revenue wasn't doing well." Despite prices of Steam Deck models rising by almost 50%, it still somehow sold out in North America less than 24 hours a… …
… The Epic Games Store, where Gen Atlas will be available on PC it is published by Epic Games , does not require disclosure, and Epic CEO Tim Sweeney has said that Steam's requirement "makes no sense." But the discourse on social media is enough to conclude that many consumers do care to know if and … …
… This isn't something that can be wholesale implemented overnight, and I suspect that not every element will be open in this manner, but the end goal is to give developers games or otherwise an easier path to getting content and code out to Epic's and external ecosystems. …
… At the same time, Steam is, if not a monopoly, awfully close to one: It is so deeply entrenched that Epic Games has spent years literally giving away its games, and has barely made a dent—in fact, New Blood boss Dave Oshry said earlier this year that Epic freebies were great for sales on Steam . …
… After all, Epic already has a section of PC gaming fandom that takes a dim view of Unreal Engine games, whether you believe that's the fault of Epic or a given game's developers themselves , and AI-use is another PC gaming bug bear. …
… Praying I don't have to use this gif today pic.twitter.com/dDosrenzEv June 7, 2026 Bleszinski's first major success in the games industry came in the form of Jazz Jackrabbit , a long-ago hit for Epic Games, and his work on Unreal Tournament made him one of PC Gamer's " Game Gods " of the year 2000,… …
At its State of Unreal event in Chicago, Epic Games officially unveiled Unreal Engine 5.8 , and one of its key new features is Lumen Lite: a scalability setting that targets the use of ray-traced global illumination for the Nintendo Switch 2, with the goal of 60 fps. …
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