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Unreal Engine 5 announced, Epic Online Services are now online

By Liam Dawe, May 13, 2020

Today Epic Games released to huge bits of news for game developers, and hopefully for gamers everywhere to get a little excited about.

Unreal Engine 4.25 is up with tons of Linux improvements and Vulkan API fixes

By Liam Dawe, May 5, 2020

While the Epic Games Store may not support Linux, at least Unreal Engine does and it appears to have been given quite a lot of attention in the Unreal Engine 4.25 release that went out officially today.

Legendary is an in-development community-made open source version of the Epic Games Store

By Liam Dawe, Apr 27, 2020

While it wasn't made specifically for Linux, the in-development community made application 'Legendary' has an aim to be a cross-platform and open source version of the Epic Games Store.

Godot Engine was approved for an Epic MegaGrant

By Liam Dawe, Feb 3, 2020

Some good news to share for the free and open source Godot Engine, as the lead developer Juan Linietsky announced during GodotCon that Epic Games have approved them for an Epic MegaGrant.

Psyonix are ending support for Rocket League on both Linux and macOS (updated)

By Liam Dawe, Jan 23, 2020

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Sad news today Linux gamers, Psyonix emailed us directly to make sure we saw the news that they're officially ending support of Rocket League on Linux and macOS.

Supernatural horror adventure 'ASYLUM' gets an Epic MegaGrant

By Liam Dawe, Dec 21, 2019

Seems like Epic Games continue to open their wallet as shortly after Ore LLC were given one for Ira, Senscape have announced they've also been approved for an Epic MegaGrant to finish up ASYLUM.

Ore LLC given an Epic MegaGrant to finish their cinematic adventure game 'Ira'

By Liam Dawe, Dec 20, 2019

Announced yesterday, Ore LLC have been awarded an Epic MegaGrant which should allow them to finish work on the first act of their upcoming cinematic adventure game 'Ira'.

Krita, the FOSS painting program gets an Epic MegaGrant

By Liam Dawe, Dec 18, 2019

Following not long after game manager Lutris got an Epic MegaGrant, it was just announced today that the FOSS painting program Krita just got an Epic MegaGrant too.

Epic Games have awarded the FOSS game manager Lutris with an Epic MegaGrant

By Liam Dawe, Nov 30, 2019

The Lutris team announced yesterday that Epic Games have now awarded them a sum of money from the Epic MegaGrants pot.

Epic Games acquires Quixel with its enormous library of 3D and 2D assets

By Liam Dawe, Nov 12, 2019

Epic Games have reached down the back of the sofa and pulled up enough loose change to acquire Quixel.

A developer from Epic Games adds an offscreen video driver to SDL 2

By Liam Dawe, Sep 25, 2019

Something that came across the desk this morning is a note about Epic Games contributing to the cross-platform development library SDL 2.

Epic Games' Tim Sweeney talks Linux and gaming some more, says Linux is "great"

By Liam Dawe, Jul 15, 2019

Tim Sweeney, the Founder and CEO of Epic Games took to Twitter again recently to answer some questions about Linux and gaming.

Epic's Tim Sweeney thinks Wine "is the one hope for breaking the cycle", Easy Anti-Cheat continuing Linux support

By Liam Dawe, Jun 24, 2019

Here's something interesting, Tim Sweeney, the founder and CEO of Epic Games has been chatting on Twitter again and what he said is quite interesting.

WHAT THE GOLF? is another Linux game that's now going to the Epic Store first

By Liam Dawe, Jun 11, 2019

WHAT THE GOLF? was originally funded on Fig with a Steam release, however hidden behind a backer-only update on Fig they've announced it's going to Epic's store first.

Outer Wilds becomes another Epic Store exclusive for a limited time

By Liam Dawe, May 12, 2019

After a successful crowdfunding campaign on Fig that included a Linux version, we're in for an extra wait as Outer Wilds is now going to be releasing on the Epic Store first.

Easy Anti-Cheat is actually still supported for Linux, a statement from Epic Games

By Liam Dawe, May 7, 2019

As an update to my previous article talking about Easy Anti-Cheat, as it turns out they're not stopping Linux support for it at all.

Psyonix, creator of Rocket League is joining Epic Games (updated)

By Liam Dawe, May 1, 2019

Epic Games don't seem to be just doing exclusives now, they're also pulling in studios with Psyonix (Rocket League) announcing today they're joining Epic Games.