Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney still imagines the future of his Cary-based company will exist in the metaverse. Sweeney has promoted the metaverse concept since at least 2015, and this spring he went ...

Depending on who you talk to, the metaverse is already dead. Or it may be alive and well. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney recently published a brief obituary and open wake invitation for the tech movement ...

In 1998, North Carolina’s Epic Games achieved its first big hit with Unreal, a first-person shooter game set on the alien planet Na Pali. Unreal featured dynamic gunplay and pioneering 3D graphics.

If you were under any illusion that Disney’s new partnership with Epic Games on a Fortnite-connected “games and entertainment universe” was a traditional video game, that line from Disney’s ...

Epic Games and The Lego Group have announced a new "long-term" deal to help "shape the future of the metaverse" and specifically make it safe and fun for children and families. Details are thin at the ...

Forward-looking: Epic Games boss Tim Sweeney ended his Unreal Engine presentation at GDC 2023 by discussing the company's Metaverse ambitions. That word seems to have drifted out of the conversation ...

CARY – Tim Sweeney, the billionaire owner of Cary-based Epic Games and a widely acknowledged visionary of interactive, realistic technology, is coming to the defense of the virtual world known as the ...

In an effort to bridge the gap between gaming universes and redefine the sale of digital goods, the tech giant behind popular gaming platform "Fortnite" is planning to merge its suite of high-end game ...

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