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2K Games titles bolt from the Nvidia GeForce Now stables

9 March 2020, 11:11

Inspires Tim Sweeney (Epic Games CEO) to defend the comparative value of Nvidia's service.

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Assassin's Creed: Syndicate will be free on EGS from Thursday

18 February 2020, 11:11

Meanwhile GOG debuts modern AAA Bethesda games on sale and stripped of DRM.

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Rocket League support for Mac and Linux to be dropped

24 January 2020, 11:11

The last patch for Mac and Linux (SteamOS) versions of the game will be delivered in March.

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Epic extends its weekly game giveaway plans through 2020

15 January 2020, 13:11

Last year it gave away 73 games with an average OpenCritic score of 80/100.

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Red Dead Redemption 2 PC sales were lacklustre for Epic Games

23 December 2019, 11:11

It sold 408K in debut month vs Borderlands 3's sales of 1.78m in its first month on the EGS.

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Steam Winter Sale 2019 and Steam Awards voting commences

20 December 2019, 10:11

Meanwhile Epic has started giving out "endless" $10 coupons in its store.

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Epic's 12 days of free games starts Thursday

16 December 2019, 11:11

And on the same day (19th Dec) The Epic Games Store Holiday Sale begins.

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Epic Games acquires Megascans maker Quixel

13 November 2019, 13:11

Announces that "the Megascans library is now completely free for use with Unreal Engine".

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Control PC exclusivity deal cost Epic Games $10.45 million

23 September 2019, 13:11

Sum was spotted by video games analyst in publisher income statement.

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Batman Arkham Collection is free via Epic Games for a limited time

20 September 2019, 12:11

And the firm is simultaneously giving away the Lego Batman Trilogy.

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Tobii Spotlight tech uses eye tracking to reduce GPU stress

6 August 2019, 12:11

Benchmarks show its dynamic foveated rendering can reduce 3D shading load by 57pc.

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Epic Games Store Mega Sale mix up as publishers remove games

20 May 2019, 10:11

For example, 2K Games didn't want people pre-ordering Borderlands 3 on the cheap (£10 off).

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Epic uses UE4 ray tracing in Fortnite X John Wick trailer

17 May 2019, 13:50

Meanwhile, Nvidia talks about ray tracing under water scenes in DXR.

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Ubisoft announces Tom Clancy's Ghost Recon Breakpoint (video)

10 May 2019, 12:11

The Wildlands sequel will be released on 4th Oct as an Epic Games and Ubi Store exclusive.

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Epic will phase out exclusives if Steam improves revenue share

26 April 2019, 11:11

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney said 88 per cent for developers was the golden figure.

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Nvidia driver 425.31 enables DXR on GeForce GTX 1060 and better

11 April 2019, 14:00

And Nvidia has released a trio of snazzy new RTX showcase demos for you to try out.

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The Witness is the latest Epic Games Store freebie

5 April 2019, 12:21

And it will be followed up, from 18th April to 2nd May, by Transistor.

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Anno 1800 PC system requirements shared by Ubisoft

2 April 2019, 13:11

And the game will be removed from Steam to become an Epic Games / Ubisoft Store exclusive.

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Borderlands 3 leak: Fri 13th Sept release via Epic Games Store

2 April 2019, 10:11

Gearbox is set to reveal more about the game soon but prematurely Tweeted these titbits.

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Epic releases 'Troll' Unreal Engine real-time raytracing demo

22 March 2019, 10:11

And it previews Chaos, a high-performance physics and destruction system, coming soon.

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Epic Games Store search functionality goes live

11 March 2019, 15:31

And through 2019 we should see the store not just add new exclusive titles but transform.

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Apex Legends reaches 50 million players in 4 weeks

5 March 2019, 12:11

That's a much faster take-up than Fortnite, and it is almost on a par in Twitch view rankings.

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Unreal Engine 4.22 Preview 1 supports real-time ray tracing

13 February 2019, 11:21

Preview 1 is now available and includes low- and high-level ray tracing effects.

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Epic Games launches Fortnite Creative mode

6 December 2018, 13:31

Battle Pass owners can start their designs today but general availability starts a week later.

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Epic Games Store takes aim at Steam with an 88:12 revenue split

5 December 2018, 11:01

Fortnite-maker says eStore store is "launching soon," initially for PC and Mac.

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Xbox One keyboard and mouse support arrives on Wednesday

12 November 2018, 13:01

And Razer promises some specially designed peripherals for launch at the CES 2019.

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Nvidia shares first RTX gaming technology videos

21 August 2018, 11:21

See the difference real time raytracing makes in Battlefield V, Metro Exodus, and more.

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Epic Games provides $100 million Fortnite eSports prize pool

22 May 2018, 18:11

The pool will fund Fortnite competitions over the 2018 - 2019 season.

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Epic Games releases Unreal Engine 4.19

15 March 2018, 13:31

Delivers "improvements to rendering, physics, Landscape terrain, and many more systems".

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Epic publishes Fortnite Battle Royale mobile trailer

13 March 2018, 14:31

It’s the same game as on consoles and computers - with Cross Play, Cross Progression.

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Epic Games to close down its Paragon F2P MOBA game

29 January 2018, 12:11

It never left beta stage but people who paid for early access and so on will get refunds.

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Epic Games acquires Edinburgh-based startup Cloudgine

23 January 2018, 13:11

As its name suggests, Cloudgine offloads Unreal Engine 4 processing to the cloud.

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Nvidia VRWorks gains support in Unreal Engine 4.16

14 July 2017, 11:01

And key VRWorks features are mainlined in Unity 2017.1.

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