It's been 20 years since Epic Games first released its Unreal game development engine in concert with its first person shooter, Unreal.
The studio had worked on the Wii U adaptation of Batman: Arkham City, familiarizing itself with the modified Unreal Engine 3 development engine used by Rocksteady (developer of the first two Arkham games).
Powered by the Unreal Engine 3 development toolkit, ARC Squadron has players try their hands (and fingers) in intergalactic warfare.
Epic Games, which operates Fortnite as well as the Unreal Engine game development platform, has worked with 3Lateral in the past on projects to push the level of realism and detail that are possible with human avatars.
Here's what you get for your $19 + 5%: – All the Unreal Engine 4 development tools – Full source code access on GitHub – The documentation – Access to a private Q/A forum where Unreal will help you work through the kinks – Updates.
It also supports some development on Unreal Engine and CryEngine.
That round has participation from the likes of KKR, Kleiner Perkins and Lightspeed Venture Partners and it is said to value the Epic Games business — which also includes Unreal Engine for game development — at more than $15 billion.
In 2005, Hagewood became certain that Epic's powerful Unreal Engine 3 – a game development technology that the company licensed out to other studios – would become popular across the industry.
Back then, Epic was best known for Unreal Engine, the third-party development platform that it still operates today, and top-selling titles like Gears of War.
