Sony Corporation has invested a cool $250 million into Fortnite and Unreal Engine developer Epic Games.
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Epic Games, the owner and developer of Unreal Engine, has given a quarter of a million-dollar grant to the open-source game engine, Godot.
Following two days offline, Fortnite has returned with a brand new map and a host of other changes.
Fortnite's been replaced by a giant hole? Insert your own jokes. Into the hole, presumably.
55% of that windfall payment goes to 505 Games, Control's publisher.
A new Pokémon game and development problems for Call of Duty are this week's gaming news headlines.
Epic continues to test tribal Steam loyalty with some enormous discounts in the first Epic Store sale.
A select few Epic Store Games are now available to purchase from the Humble Store, including Metro Exodus and Borderlands 3.
Epic Games has announced the acquisition of Rocket League developer, Pysonix.
The Witness is free on PC right now. You should probably get on that.
The Epic MegaGrants initiative replaces 2015's Unreal Dev Grants programme and offers a big pot of money to developers and associated projects.
Remember when PS4's walled garden approach to cross-play effectively ruined Fortnite Battle Royale for anyone who also wanted to play on Nintendo Switch?
Here's an interesting one: Metro Exodus is going to launch exclusively (for PC digital download, at least) on the Epic Store.
In its quest to make you buy games from them, the Epic Store is going to keep giving them away for free.
With The Division 2, Ubisoft is the first major publisher to throw in with the Epic Store in the fight against Steam.
You've only got a few days left to download Subnautica for free, and for keeps, from the new Epic Store.
Discord: Anything you can do, I can do better. I can do anything better than you.
Developers are excited by the revenue share offered by the Epic Store, but success will hinge on whether Epic can tear players away from the convenience...
Stealth-launch? Soft-launch? Accidental early release? Who knows; but the Epic Store is now live on the new Epic Games launcher.
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