![]() The Cary, North Carolina-based company, founded in 1991 in CEO Tim Sweeney's basement, has been a force in gaming and computer graphics for many years. Epic Games originally developed the engine for its Unreal series, then spun those development tools out into Unreal Engine. Game engines like Unreal are the software that developers use to build their creations, offering tools that help render graphics and control actions in a game's environment such as collisions. ![]() Over time, these infrastructure offerings have become core businesses of their own," said Jud Waite, senior analyst at CB Insights, which studies the start-up marketplace. ![]() Both companies monetize the proprietary infrastructure used to support their core businesses. "In a way, the Unreal Engine is to Epic Games what AWS is to Amazon.
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