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A fundraising effort by video game Fortnite and Microsoft’s Xbox has generated $144 million for organizations seeking to help Ukraine. Six weeks after an invasion by Russia, millions of refugees have fled Ukraine, while those remaining face dire needs in terms of basic supplies and shelter. In a tweet, the Epic Games…

Spire Animation Studios has closed a $20 million funding round that includes a strategic investment from Epic Games. It said the fresh funds are earmarked for staff expansion, studio technology and infrastructure build out and creative development. Epic will also join Spire's board of directors. The collaboration will…

As part of Epic Games' Virtual Production Week, Reel FX gave a behind the scenes look today at how they are using the Unreal Video Game Engine to animate their Netflix series, Super Giant Robot Brothers! Unreal Engine has been used in television and film before, notably for visual effects in Lucasfilm's The Mandalorian…

Tragedy struck millions of homes across the world today, as one of the world’s most popular online games went offline for several hours. Fortnite, which boasts more than 350 million players worldwide, was offline for several hours, thanks to an unknown glitch. The timing couldn’t have been worse for parents, whose…

Wonder Dynamics, a startup founded by Ready Player One star Tye Sheridan and VFX expert Nikola Todorovic that aims to lower the cost and level the playing field for visual effects, raised $9 million in a Series A funding round that included Epic Games and Samsung as investors. An initial funding round last spring…

Bad Robot Games, the video game division of JJ Abrams’ production banner, has tapped games industry vet Tanya Watson as COO and President. Watson is a former Epic Games executive, who served on the original creative team behind Fortnite, and Squanch Games co-founder and CEO. She will help lead the company’s mission to…

Tribeca Enterprises and Fortnite maker Epic Games have announced details for their joint effort to help filmmakers use Epic’s free Unreal Engine platform as a creative foundation. The two companies first revealed their team-up in August. Today, they identified a roster of writers and directors whose work will be…

Capitalizing on a red-hot deal market, LeBron James’s SpringHill Company has sold what it calls a “significant” minority stake to RedBird Capital Partners, Fenway Sports Group, Nike and Epic Games. The deal values SpringHill at $725 million. Negotiations with a group of investors had been reported over the summer and a…

Apple has been found to “hide critical information from consumers and illegally stifle consumer choice,” a judge ruled in the company’s legal battle with Epic Games, but the mixed decision will leave App Store fees in place. U.S. District Court Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers did not find that Apple fully fit the legal…

Tim Cook had an uncomfortable three hours in a California courthouse Friday – or at least that's what it sounded like with the muffled call-in audio available – as he defended the iOS App Store as an "economic miracle" but repeated the oft-ridiculed company line that no one at Apple knows how profitable it is — not…

Summer Game Fest, which will return for its second iteration in June, will welcome more than just news on upcoming video game titles as Weezer kicks things off with a live performance. Slated to begin Thursday, June 10 at 11 a.m. PT, Kick Off Live! will launch Summer Game Fest 2021.  Produced and hosted by The Game…

UPDATED with Apple opening argument: Epic Games Monday slammed Apple for making billions of dollars off the back of developers, describing an arbitrary and dictatorial regime by the Tim Cook-led company that draws apps to the iOS operating system and takes a big chunk of their business – after claiming early on that…