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Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina. The company was founded by Tim Sweeney as Potomac Computer Systems in 1991, originally located in his parents' house in Potomac, Maryland. Following its first commercial video game release, ZZT (1991), the company became Epic MegaGames ...
Digital Extremes Ltd. Digital Extremes Ltd. is a Canadian video game developer founded in 1993 by James Schmalz. They are best known for creating Warframe, a free-to-play cooperative online action game, and co-creating Epic Games ' Unreal series of games. Digital Extremes is headquartered in London, Ontario. In 2014, 61% of the company was sold ...
This is a listing of largest video game publishers and developers by number of employees. Microsoft Gaming is the largest video game employer in the industry, followed by Ubisoft and Electronic Arts. Among the top 41 largest video game employers, ten are based in the United States, eight in Japan, five in China, three in France, South Korea ...
Founder and CEO of Epic Games. Awards. AIAS Hall of Fame Award (2012) [4] GDC Lifetime Achievement Award (2017) [5] Timothy Dean Sweeney (born 1970) is an American video game programmer and businessman. He is the founder and CEO of Epic Games, and the creator of Unreal Engine, a game development platform.
History of video games. Beginning in 2023 and continuing into 2024, the video game industry has experienced mass layoffs. Over 10,000 jobs were lost in 2023, and an additional 13,000 jobs were lost in 2024 from January to September. [1][2][3][4][5] These layoffs had reverberating effects on both established game development studios and emerging ...
Epic Games is laying off about 830 employees, divesting Bandcamp. September 28, 2023 at 2:20 PM (Reuters) -"Fortnite" maker Epic Games is laying off about 830 employees, or 16% of its staff, and ...
Rein at the 2012 Develop Conference in Brighton, UK. Nationality. Canadian. Occupation. Entrepreneur. Title. Vice president of Epic Games. Mark A. Rein is a Canadian entrepreneur and the vice president of video game and software development company Epic Games. [1][2][3] He is also a co-owner of the NHL 's Carolina Hurricanes. [4]
Blizzard Entertainment, Inc. is an American video game developer and publisher based in Irvine, California, and a subsidiary of Activision Blizzard.Originally founded in 1991, the company is best known for producing the highly influential massively multiplayer online role-playing game World of Warcraft (2004), as well as the multi-million selling video game franchises Diablo, StarCraft and ...