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In a story being monitored by Kotaku, Epic Games is taking two people to court, one of them being a 14-year-old kid, for allegedly cheating in Fortnite The short version: these two players were apparently using software from Addicted Cheats to find and target Twitch streamers to stream snipe them mid-game, using an aim-bot program and[...]
'PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds' Brag About Their Own 20 Million
Apparently, Bluehole and Epic Games are going to be engaging in an "anything you can do I can do better" type of feud over battle royale success After Epic Games made their announcement about Fortnite reaching 20 million players, Bluehole fired back with an announcement of their own on Twitter declaring that PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds had[...]
'Fortnite' Celebrates Passing 20 Million Players
In the meantime, cheers to Epic Games for their success! In their ever constant quest to become bigger and better than others in the battle royale genre, Fortnite is celebrating that they've surpassed 20 million players online The news came down via their Twitter feed where they broke the news. We just passed 20 million players[...]
'Fortnite' Reveals Their "Fortnitemares" Halloween Event
While we're all still waiting to see if Fortnite ends up having some legal issues with PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, Epic Games are still moving forward with game content with no signs of stopping The latest addition is the "Fortnitemares" Halloween event, which kicks off today with two new themed enemies in  Pumpkin Head Husk and Vampier Taker[...]
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credit//Epic Games Epic Games' incredibly popular Fortnite: Battle Royale has one major problem whittling away at the game's success Cheaters quickly become a major problem in matches and Epic has taken a number of steps to counteract cheating, but they've recently stepped up their anti-cheat game by filing new lawsuits against two repeat cheaters. According to documents obtained by TorrentFreak, Epic[...]
Fornite Broke Out The Ban Hammer On Thousands Of Players Today
Fortnite's Battle Royale mode has seen "thousands" of players banned for cheating in the last few days, and Epic Games has no problem in continuing to wield the ban hammer Community Co-Ordinator Nathan Mooney confirmed today that battling cheats in Fortnite is "the highest priority" across the company. As reported by VG24/7, Epic acknowledges that the problem of cheaters in[...]
'Fortnite: Battle Royale' Passes One Million Players
Epic Games may be on the verge of getting some strongly worded legal documents from Bluehole, but that really isn't stopping the company from moving forward with their latest addition to Fortnite In fact, the latest numbers for Fortnite: Battle Royale have all but confirmed that the mode will be staying in place until the day[...]
'Paragon' Hero Gets A New Trailer Less Than A Week From Release
Paragon is less than a week away from releasing a brand new hero on August 29th, but Epic Games couldn't wait that long to show you what he's capable of Drongo comes with a couple awesome abilities, which you can check out in the latest trailer below for the character Among them are the Gag Grenade,[...]
Grand Faux Pas: Epic Games Resets All The Bases In 'Fortnite'
If you've been working hard to create a base in Fortnite, you're probably not too pleased with the most recent update from Epic Games, which washed away any progress fans may have had on their accounts A recent patch to everyone's Storm Shield Bases, which are permanent structures in the game that players build over time,[...]
Surviving The Microtransactions: We Review 'Fortnite'
It was just constantly being updated so that Epic Games could put out something they were proud of Now we finally have the game in Early Access via Epic's portal system Can this much time being put under a microscope really help out the game? We downloaded our review copy and gave it a quick[...]
Epic Games Brings Back The Unreal E3 Awards
Coming up a few weeks before E3, Epic Games has announced a partnership with VentureBeat to bring back the Unreal E3 Awards for 2017 The awards are designed to honor the best of the best who utilize the Unreal Engine and show off the potential it has So basically an awards show that's also a marketing presentation. The[...]
Epic Games Apparently Has "20 Unreal Engine" Titles In The Works For Switch
In an interview with Automaton (translated by Gematsu), Epic Games Japan representative Takayuki Kawasaki spoke about how the company apparently has a lot of stuff on the way Kawasaki was quoted to say that there are "about 20 titles" in the works at the company for the Switch alone, all of them using the Unreal Engine[...]
Unreal Engine Being Featured At GDC 2017
Tomorrow at GDC 2017, Epic Games will be on hand to host their "State Of Unreal" event for event goers There's a lot of hush-hush as to what everyone will be talking about at the presentation, but the company released a trailer today showing off the already impressive set of tools that their product can[...]
Paragon Open Beta Is Now Live And Gets A Launch Trailer
I hope Epic Games keep on top of it. Take a look at the launch trailer here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q2U1bRuy2IVideo can't be loaded because JavaScript is disabled: Paragon – Open Beta Launch Trailer (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2q2U1bRuy2I) I've played a fair bit of Paragon and the game is really strong[...]
Paragon Is Getting A Free Beta Weekend Next Week
The third person action moba from Epic Games is actually a ton of fun, and I've really enjoyed my time with it. While it might not be for everyone, you can see if it is up your ally very soon It's been announced that the beta for the game will be free during Thursday May 26[...]
Gears Of War: Ultimate Edition Review – Look At All That Juice
I remember being 15 and thinking that the original Epic Games title was an incredible experience In many ways, I stand by that The 2006 title was probably the first time I felt like 'the new generation is here', having incredible graphics and simply offering an experience we just hadn't had up until that point. So[...]
Gears Of War Cinematic Director Leaving Epic Games To Return To Series
Mitchell, that seems to be the case. Mitchell has left Epic Games, who sold the rights to Gears of War to Microsoft, to work on for the franchise's new caretakers Black Tusk Studios He tweeted the news saying: BIG NEWS!! I'm leaving Epic, but heading to @blacktuskstudio to work on #Gearsofwar!! I'll quote Marcus Fenix, by saying[...]
VR vs AR
At least, that is the view of former Epic Games President Mike Capps. Speaking to GameIndustry.biz (via VG247), he expressed his concerns about the future of the tech in casual households He compared the push for VR in homes to that of 3D and 3DTVs: There's so little tolerance at the consumer level for that kind of[...]