...and they merged with Scion Studios.
http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2004/03/19/unreal-developer-epic-games-merges-with-scion-studios
http://www.dmwmedia.com/news/2004/03/19/unreal-developer-epic-games-merges-with-scion-studios
Chair Entertainment Group Acquired By Epic Games
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Scion was (almost) their own company all the way through, located right next to them so the merger wasn't that big deal.
I wonder what the strategy is behind buying up all these smaller devs.
I wonder what the strategy is behind buying up all these smaller devs.
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Nips
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Indeed, scion were an epic off-shoot studio from the get-go, they just brought them into the team to simplify things around the time of the ms/midway deal iirc.
What the strategy is? By my count Epic has something like 6 studios/teams now, which gives them the manpower to develope at LEAST 3 titles simultaneously (bearing in mind that epic china and people can fly seem to be used as polishers rather than teams that work solo.
I, like many who read/post here, am a big fan of epic, want to see them do well and want to see more games from them. I can't see this as anything other than good news for me.
That was one game you really should have NOT payed any attention to the reviews. AR was IMO a great game with an interesting story as well. Got some bad press for an over hyped and poorly implemented (by the MS xbox team) promo game within the game. It had no more bugs than any other game. None of them were killers. If you can find it get it (for XBox or PC).from what i've seen of Advent Rising i thought it looked kinda interesting but i never got it because of quite a few pretty bad ratings
hmm... it's ok (because they only acquired one chair)
there must be a good joke in there
IceCreamYou
disseminator of awesome
Maybe they decided to stop giving UT3 the @$$-end.
There. Nailed it.
Don't get me wrong, I like UT3, but there's no denying it needed more polish.
No, it was a slashdotcom game. That company is no more however, so anyone is free to pick it up.