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Epic Games Slapped With Class Action Suit Related To January’s Security Breach, Fortnite World Cup Winner Swatted While Streaming

August 13, 2019 Marc Marasigan Comments

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 [...]

Epic Founder And CEO Rises To Defend The Epic Games Store ‘Exclusive Games’ Strategy On Twitter

June 26, 2019 Marc Marasigan Comments

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 [...]

2018 Was The Biggest Year For Games And Interactive Entertainment Says SuperData

January 18, 2019 Marc Marasigan Comments

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 [...]

Fortnite Is Getting a Cross Platform Mobile Version

March 8, 2018 Erhan Altay Comments

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 [...]

Epic Games Uses Private Investigators To Hunt Down Cheaters

February 19, 2018 Erhan Altay Comments

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 [...]

Fortnite Hits 3.4 Million Concurrent Users, Surpasses PUBG

February 8, 2018 Erhan Altay Comments

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 [...]

Paragon Faces Uncertain Future Following Fortnite's Success

January 18, 2018 Erhan Altay Comments

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 [...]

Fortnite May Be The Biggest Game In The Western World

January 15, 2018 Erhan Altay Comments

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 [...]

Battle Breakers

February 28, 2017 Sean Sullivan Comments

Battle Breakers was a tactical RPG set in a universe where science fiction and fantasy met. Collect a group of heroes and rid the kingdom of threatening space monsters using both a variety of colorful abilities and wit. Publisher: Epic Games Type: Tactics RPG Release Date: November 13, 2019 Shut Down: December 30, 2022 Pros: +Vibrant art style. +Unreal Engine [...]

Unreal Tournament

September 21, 2015 Sean Sullivan Comments

Unreal Tournament is a fast-paced shooter set in a science fiction environment, and the ninth game in the Unreal series. Enter a brutal arena packed with distinct guns, power-ups, and tight corners, and frag your way to the top of the leaderboards across multiple game modes. Developer: Epic Games Type: FPS Release Date: August 15, 2014 Shut Down: January 24, [...]

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