In 2014, Unreal Engine was named the 'most successful videogame engine' by Guinness World Records. After moving the headquarters to Cary in 1999, the studio changed its name to Epic Games.Įpic Games develops Unreal Engine, a commercially available game engine which also powers their internally developed video games like Fortnite and the Unreal, Gears of War, and Infinity Blade series. in early 1992 and brought on Mark Rein, who has been its vice president since.
Following its first commercial video game release, ZZT (1991), the company became Epic MegaGames, Inc.
The company was founded by Tim Sweeney as Potomac Computer Systems in 1991, originally located in his parents' house in Potomac, Maryland.
is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina.
