The battle royale mode for the Fortnite cooperative shooter from Epic Games has gathered over 20 million unique users. This is slightly more than the number of owners of copies of its competitor and mastermind — the PvP shooter Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds studio Bluehole.

Big Huge Games Studio has hired former Epic Games creative Director Steve Superville and ex-Zynga COO Judith Hoffman.

The number of people simultaneously playing the free “battle royale” mode of the Fortnite shooter from Epic Games has reached 525 thousand people.

Epic Games’ Fortnite cooperative shooter has gathered 7 million players on all platforms thanks to the “Battle Royale” free-play mode, which started on September 26.

Alexey Savchenko from Epic Games will perform at the Moscow session of White Nights. He will talk about new and future features of Unreal Engine 4. We offer to come up with questions for him in advance. We will award premium tickets to the authors of the top two.

The “battle royale” mode for Epic Games’ Fortnite action game gathered over 1 million gamers on its launch day on September 26.

If you do not know how to implement a convenient touch control into a mobile game and dream of hanging realistic vines at your level, a new selection of plugins for UE4 on App2Top.ru .

The head of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, believes that mobile app stores take away the lion’s share of revenue from mobile game developers.

The seventeenth update to the Unreal Engine game engine was released the other day. The main innovations and fixes of the new version relate to the capabilities of the engine with which developers create cut scenes.

Report by Sjoerd De Jong from Epic Games. He talked about what Unreal Engine 4 is at the moment. The speaker also reviewed the latest updates and told how the engine can be useful to studios from a business point of view.

Over 500 thousand copies of the Fortnite cooperative zombie shooter from Epic Games were sold on the first day of the game’s early access release. A copy costs from $40.

Epic Games has launched a seasonal sale of game assets created by users of the Unreal Engine.

Round table on VR development. Experts discussed the future of VR in the gaming industry. Virtual reality projects — the key to future success or a waste of time? What difficulties will developers face in the near future? What opportunities will open up for them? Which business model is more suitable for VR – paid or shareware?

The Belarusian company Wargaming has signed a partnership agreement with Epic Games as part of the launch of the Wargaming Mobile division.

Last week, the Yaroslavl team One Dream received a $20,000 grant from Epic Games to support the game Be:Brave. We talked with the team’s lead developer, Mikhail Vaksman, about the history of the project, why they switched from Unity to Unreal and which publisher they are looking for now.

Studio One Dream of Yaroslavl was among the winners of the Epic Games Awards, awarded to the creators of projects based on the Unreal Engine.

The Xsolla Capital investment Fund, in cooperation with Epic Games, announced plans to invest in indie developers who create games on Unreal Engine 4. More about the contract App2Top.ru I asked Dmitry Burkovsky, Xsolla’s vice President for Business Development.

The Xsolla Capital Investment Fund, in collaboration with Epic Games, will help independent developers using the Unreal Engine 4 (UE4) engine.

Epic Games has released a trial version of the Unreal Engine 4.16 Preview 1 game engine.