Epic Games, Inc.

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Epic Games, Inc.

Basic information
Founded	1991
Legal structure	Private
Industry	Video Games
Official website	https://epicgames.com/

Epic Games is a software development and media-publishing company founded in 1991 by Tim Sweeney.

Notable incidents

Unreal and Unreal Tournament

In 2022, owners of various entries within the Unreal and Unreal Tournament series had their licenses effectively expired, and were thus unable to launch or install these games. (Editor's note: add a screenshot of UT being grayed out in the launcher!)

A few years later, some entries in the series would make its way to the Internet Archive for users to freely install, but not all delisted games have been re-published onto the platform.

Removal of Linux and MacOS versions of Rocket League

In 2020, Epic and its subsidiary Psyonix announced that whilst Rocket League gamers had purchased the game with full support for Linux and MacOS, this support was being withdrawn and the game would be offline only for these Operating Systems, and gamers were directed to play the game on Windows instead. Many speculated that the change was in relation to Psyonix's acquisition by Epic Games several months earlier. At the time of acquisition Epic stated that gamers "will still be able to play Rocket League on Steam with all of the content they've previously purchased."