GamesBeat Summit 2021 #GBSummit returns with two days of content and networking designed for industry executives. Hosted Online April 28-29, 2021 Register Now Two years after it put some money into Epic Games in 2018, Smash Ventures finally came out of hiding with its $ 75 million fund for media, …
Read More »Fortnite developer Epic buys Fall Guys studio Mediatonic
GamesBeat Summit 2021 #GBSummit returns with two days of content and networking designed for industry executives. Hosted Online April 28-29, 2021 Register Now One of the most popular live-service multiplayer hits of 2020 is joining forces with Fortnite developer Epic Games. Epic announced today that it has acquired Fall Guys: …
Read More »The ripple effect of the Epic Games v. Apple battle royale
You can’t solo security COVID-19 game security report: Learn the latest attack trends in gaming Access here It was only five years ago that Epic Games’ Josh Adam and Bill Bramer were onstage at Apple’s WWDC demoing Fortnite and talking about how incredible the iOS platform is for developers. Unless …
Read More »Epic loses court bid to force Apple to reinstate Fortnite in the App Store
You can’t solo security COVID-19 game security report: Learn the latest attack trends in gaming Access here A federal judge denied a request from Epic Games to force Apple to reinstate Epic’s Fortnite game on the App Store while awaiting the results of an antitrust lawsuit. U.S. District Court judge …
Read More »GamesBeat Decides 159: Epic vs. Apple, Halo delay, and NPD
GamesBeat Summit Watch every session from the annual event On Demand Watch Now GamesBeat Decides is here once again to shout that you’ve activated Tim Sweeney’s trap card. That’s right, Epic pulled some Yu-Gi-Oh moves on Apple and Google this week, and now we all have to choose the billion- …
Read More »Epic Games Store is seeing near-Steam-like engagement levels
The Epic Games Store is hitting its stride. Epic revealed today that its PC gaming portal hit 61 million monthly active players on PC. It also had an average peak-concurrent player count of 13 million on PC. This came as Epic gave away free games as part of “The Vault” …
Read More »Epic Games shareholders seeking to sell stake for $750 million at $17 billion valuation
Some shareholders of Fortnite maker Epic Games are selling their shares for $ 750 million, according to two sources who spoke to GamesBeat. Bloomberg reported the news first, but we have independently confirmed the details in our story. The deal would give Epic a pre-money valuation of $ 16.3 billion, …
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