About Epic Games
Locations
Epic Games is headquartered in Cary, NC. Our external studios are: People Can Fly in Warsaw, Poland; Chair Entertainment in Salt Lake City, Utah; Epic Games China in Shanghai; Epic Games Korea in Seoul; Epic Games Japan in Tokyo.
Established in 1991, Epic Games develops cutting-edge games and cross-platform game engine technology. The company has created multiple million-selling, award-winning titles in its Unreal series, including Unreal Tournament 3 for PC, PLAYSTATION®3 and Xbox 360®. Epic’s Gears of War won over 30 Game of the Year awards, and the sales of Gears of War and Gears of War 2 have eclipsed 12 million units. Epic’s Unreal Engine 3 is the four-time winner of and Hall of Fame inductee for Game Developer magazine’s Best Engine Front Line Award. Unreal Engine 3 has also been recognized as the number one game engine by Develop magazine. Gears of War 3, the most anticipated blockbuster of 2011, released in September. The most critically acclaimed shooter of 2011, Gears of War 3 sold more than 3 million copies its first week.
People Can Fly
People Can Fly, an Epic Games studio, creates visually and technically superior action games for PC and console entertainment systems. Founded in 2002 and based in Warsaw, Poland, People Can Fly developed Bulletstorm, an original, Unreal Engine 3-powered onslaught of ‘kill with skill’ gameplay and blockbuster moments released in 2011 by Electronic Arts. People Can Fly made its mark on the shooter genre with its award-winning Painkiller series of games for PC and Xbox prior to shipping Epic’s Gears of War for PC.
Chair Entertainment Group
Founded in 2005, Chair Entertainment Group is a video game production company committed to creating blockbuster entertainment franchises through development of its original intellectual properties. ChAIR introduced the action, sword-fighting adventure, “Infinity Blade” for iOS. Infinity Blade raised the bar of handheld gaming and received numerous Game of the Year and Editor’s Choice Awards, in 2010. The award-winning follow up to ChAIR’s groundbreaking iOS sword-fighting adventure, Infinity Blade II combines addictive gameplay, breathtaking visuals and an engrossing story to deliver the definitive blockbuster experience exclusively on Apple’s world-class gaming platforms, and has gone on to win more than 20 game of the year and editor’s choice awards.
Yingpei Games (formerly Epic Games China)
Yingpei Games, Inc., based in Shanghai, China, licenses Epic Games’ Unreal Engine 3 in China, Taiwan, Hong Kong and Southeast Asia. Epic Games China provides Asian technology support and professional training services in Mandarin and English. Epic Games China offers AAA quality content production, outsourcing and game development services to developers and publishers worldwide.
Epic Games Korea
Established in 2009, Epic Games Korea is a wholly owned and operated business unit based in Seoul, Korea. The subsidiary provides licensing services and support resources to development teams using the Unreal Engine.
Epic Games Japan
Established in 2010, Epic Games Japan is a wholly owned and operated business unit based in Yokohama, Japan. The subsidiary provides licensing services and support resources to development teams using the Unreal Engine.
