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Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game and software developer and publishers based in Cary, North Carolina. The company was founded by Tim Sweeney as Potomac Computer Systems in 1991 in Potomac, Maryland. Following its first commercial video game release, ZZT (1991), the company became Epic MegaGames, Inc. in early 1992. After moving the headquarters to Cary in 199, the studio changed its name to Epic Games.
Epic Games develops the Unreal Engine, a commercially available game engine which also powers their internally developed video games, such as Fortnite and the Gears of War and Unreal series.