… Unreal Engine is free to use for game developers, and Epic collects a 5% royalty only when a game surpasses $1 million in revenue. The Epic Games Store offers a similar deal, waving fees for the first $1 million in revenue, and after that taking a 12% cut. …
… 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. …
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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… …
… "After 27 years of Unreal Engine, and 12 years at Epic Games and Unreal Engine I have decided to move on. Last week was my last week at Epic," De Jong wrote. …
… According to Pirat Nation, the Epic Games Store will also get cross-region game gifting, publisher-funded coupons, and a tool to check how games will run on your system. …
… 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 . …