Epic Games, Inc. is an American computer game as well as software program developer and also author based in Cary, North Carolina. The business was founded by Tim Sweeney as Potomac Computer Equipments in 1991, originally situated in his parents' home in Potomac, Maryland. Following his first industrial computer game release, AZT (1991), the firm came to be Epic Megagrams, Inc. in very early 1992 and brought on Mark Rein, that is the firm's vice head of state to day. Relocating their headquarters to Cary in 1999, the workshop's name was streamlined to Epic Games. Epic Games develops the Unreal Engine, a commercially offered game engine which likewise powers their internally developed video games, such as Fortnite and also the Unreal, Gears of Battle and Infinity Blade collection. In 2014, Unreal Engine was called the most effective video game engine by Guinness World Records. Epic Games possesses computer game programmers Chair Home entertainment, Psionic, Me diatonic as ...