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Epic builds out its portfolio

The game engine giants, Unreal and Unity are gathering in capabilities to make their platforms more powerful and attractive for users. Epic, having grown fat on Fortnite, has made several significant purchases for its Unreal Engine over the last 12 months or so. The company kicked off 2018 with the acquisition of Cloudgine, a powerful tool to boost the capabilities ...

Kathleen Maher

The game engine giants, Unreal and Unity are gathering in capabilities to make their platforms more powerful and attractive for users. Epic, having grown fat on Fortnite, has made several significant purchases for its Unreal Engine over the last 12 months or so. The company kicked off 2018 with the acquisition of Cloudgine, a powerful tool to boost the capabilities of cloud-based gaming with accelerated capabilities such as physics, AI, and multiplayer. Microsoft was using Cloudgine for its Crackdown 3, but when Crackdown developer and Cloudgine founder Dave Jones left to join Epic, Microsoft has had to scramble to beef
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