Epic Games

Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in. The company was founded by as Potomac Computer Systems in 1991, originally located in his parents' house in. Following his first commercial video game release, ' (1991), the company became Epic MegaGames, Inc'''. in early 1992 and brought on Mark Rein, who is the company's vice president to date. Moving their headquarters to Cary in 1999, the studio's name was simplified to Epic Games.

Epic Games develops the Unreal Engine, a commercially available game engine which also powers their internally developed video games, such as ' and the ' game series, ' and ' series. In 2014, Unreal Engine was named the "most successful videogame engine" by Guinness World Records.

In November 5, 2019, Rockstar's ' and ' became available to purchase on Epic Games Store. Later on May 14, 2020, Grand Theft Auto V and Grand Theft Auto Online were also made available on the store, for free until May 21.

Epic Games' Unreal Engine is also being used in Grand Theft Auto: The Trilogy - The Definitive Edition, a compilation pack consisting of remastered versions of three classic Grand Theft Auto titles - Grand Theft Auto III, Grand Theft Auto: Vice City and Grand Theft Auto: San Andreas - replacing Criterion Games' RenderWare engine.