Epic Games

The RPS Advent Calendar 2023, December 21st

Hark! The herald of darkness sings

Epic win lawsuit as court rules Google's app store is an illegal monopoly

Now Google needs a Project Hug

Lego Fortnite looks a lot like Lego Minecraft actually, ahead of the new co-op survival game's launch tomorrow

Will Mojang be bricking it?

Dauntless and Fae Farm devs lay off 34 people but insist DLC plans and unannounced games unaffected

Phoenix Labs makes another round of job cuts

Fortnite will soon let you shoot Solid Snake in his beautiful butt as Family Guy’s Peter Griffin, it seems

As long as justice is done to the Metal Gear Solid hero's tight booty

Supporters only: Call Of Duty should pay attention to the return of a badminton star

Yes, I have found another excuse to write about badminton

Fortnite’s next live music concert is Eminem, marking the rapper's first video game cameo in almost 20 years

If you don’t count his star turn in god-awful mobile game Shady Wars, that is

Google discussed buying out Epic with Tencent's help to make Fortnite their "leading business driver"

2018 "Project Elektra" plans detailed during Google vs Epic court battle

Deals: Razer’s Black Friday deal bundles feature Razer Blade laptops and up to £579 worth of freebies

Buy a Blade, get a Razer Edge tablet (and possibly Alan Wake 2)

Five years after it took on Steam, Epic Games Store is yet to make a penny of profit

Epic hoped to scoop up half of all PC gaming revenue back in 2021

Fortnite’s Season OG brought back its original map last week - and a record-breaking 44m players came with it

Almost tripling the previous peak set by a Marvel crossover event in 2020

Fortnite OG is here, bringing back planes, hamster balls, Tilted Towers and more over the next four weeks

Everything old is new again

Fortnite's original map will make a return next week

Time travel afoot

Final Fantasy 14’s Fall Guys minigame looks like wonderful chaos, and we’ll be able to play it this month

A crowning achievement

Fortnite’s Alan Wake: Flashback is a sort-of-remake-but-not-quite that lets you replay the whole game in 20 minutes before Alan Wake 2

It's not a Loot Lake, it’s an ocean

Devs from Rockstar, Necrosoft and more slam Epic and Songtradr for "trashing" Bandcamp as layoffs announced

"At least" 50% of staff affected, according to Bandcamp United union

Epic detail plans for Epic Games Store improvements - and how they're going to tempt more devs from Steam

It's all about the third parties

Sergiy Galyonkin, SteamSpy creator who helped launched the Epic Games Store, has left the Fortnite maker after eight years

“I am not a good fit for this new version of Epic”

Fortnite is hiking up the price of V-Bucks in the US and Europe following mass Epic layoffs

Says the “adjustments are based on economic factors such as inflation and currency fluctuations”.

Epic lay off 830 people thanks to "unrealistic" metaverse ambitions

"For a while now, we've been spending way more money than we earn", concedes CEO

What are your favourite guilty pleasure games?

Ronzilla Asks RPS

Epic are hiring for a Fortnite open world survival game

The end is Fortnigh

Epic will start offering devs 100% of revenue for Epic Games Store exclusivity

Six months of PC exclusivity will net devs of any size every penny.

The creators of the System Shock remake want to do Unreal next

"You've seen what we've done with DOOM & Quake"

Cliff Bleszinski wants a new Jazz Jackrabbit "in the style of Jumping Flash"

Lost Epics