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Epic headquarters in Verona, Wisconsin. Epic was founded in 1979 by Judith R. Faulkner [5] with a $70,000 investment [6] (equivalent to $290,000 in 2023). Originally headquartered in Madison, Wisconsin, Epic moved its headquarters to a large campus in the suburb of Verona, Wisconsin in 2005, [7] where it employs 13,000 people as of 2023. [8]
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 ...
EPIC, the term for a ticker symbol in the United Kingdom prior to 1996. Epic morphism, or epimorphism, a mathematical concept. European Prospective Investigation into Cancer and Nutrition, a Europe-wide cohort study of diet and cancer. Norwegian Epic, a cruise ship. Excellence in Prehospital Injury Care, a program at the University of Arizona ...
Epic (genre) Epic is a narrative genre characterised by its length, scope, and subject matter. The defining characteristics of the genre are mostly derived from its roots in ancient poetry (epic poems such as Homer 's Iliad and Odyssey). An epic is not limited to the traditional medium of oral poetry, but has expanded to include modern mediums ...
Epic films have large scale, sweeping scope, and spectacle. The term is slightly ambiguous, sometimes designating a film genre and at other times simply big-budget films. Like epics in the classical literary sense, it is often focused on a heroic character. An epic's ambitious nature helps to set it apart from other genres such as the period ...
The English word epic comes from Latin epicus, which itself comes from the Ancient Greek adjective ἐπικός (epikos), from ἔπος (epos), [3] "word, story, poem." [4]In ancient Greek, 'epic' could refer to all poetry in dactylic hexameter (epea), which included not only Homer but also the wisdom poetry of Hesiod, the utterances of the Delphic oracle, and the strange theological verses ...
Box office. $268.4 million [6] Epic (stylized as epic) is a 2013 American animated fantasy action - adventure film loosely based on William Joyce 's 1996 children's book The Leaf Men and the Brave Good Bugs, [7][8] produced by Blue Sky Studios and distributed by 20th Century Fox. The film was directed by Chris Wedge from a screenplay written by ...
List of games by Epic Games. Epic Games is an American video game and software developer based in Cary, North Carolina. It was founded by Tim Sweeney as Potomac Computer Systems in 1991, originally located in his parents' house in Potomac, Maryland. After releasing one game under that name, ZZT (1991), Sweeney renamed the company to Epic ...