Epic Opening Studio in UK

[SuperDuperYeah]

Epic is making some moves "Europe wise". Interesting... I'm guessing it's part of a big push to attract European developers ? Is Unreal Engine pretty popular across Europe ?

 

http://www.gamasutra.com/view/news/222601/Epic_Games_is_opening_a_studio_in_the_UK.php

Edited August 5, 2014 by SuperDuperYeah

[SuperDuperYeah]

Oh crap. Sjonsson beat me to it. 

[FMPONE]

Awesome stuff, I hope to see some stronk games come out of this.

[blackdog]

It's about time!

[Jord]

Some good games industry news for once!

[PogoP]

Pretty sure it's just a support studio for the engine, and they won't be making games? If you look on their site, you'll see they aren't hiring any artists or designers etc.

[Thrik]

Seems like a great opportunity for programmers at least. Maybe with time they'll expand, who knows. Nice to see anything at all like this happening in the UK though...

[FrieChamp]

Pretty sure it's just a support studio for the engine, and they won't be making games? If you look on their site, you'll see they aren't hiring any artists or designers etc.

 

The Epic UK GM responded to a similar comment on GI.biz:

 

 

 

"just" support..? We're involved with the actual development of Unreal Engine, as well as a few Epic games. It's not support - you could see it more as working as part of an international team of developers. We do support as well, of course, but the bulk of our work is actual development.

 

Doesn't look like they'll take on full game projects (yet) so I'll give you that