Epic Games Purchases Reality Engine
May 14th, 2005 by CrusaderA reader sent in notice that Epic Games has announced the purchase of the Reality Engine (screenshots):
Epic has purchased the Reality Engine outright, including intellectual property rights, trademarks, and copyrights. Epic does not intend to continue sales, development, or support of the Reality Engine, but will review its technologies for inclusion into Unreal Engine 3.
Furthermore, Epic has hired the Reality Engine’s developer, Tim Johnson, for Unreal Engine 3 development. Reality is a DirectX 9 engine, but presumably whatever features are incorporated into UE3 will be ported over to the Linux/OpenGL codebase.
May 14th, 2005 at 10:08 am
So, are Epic Games trying to stifle competition, or are they truly interested in the technology behind the Reality Engine?
Or maybe there was a third reason like Artificial Studios was failing, so EG swallowed the engine before AS completely died.