After the game manufacturer Epic Games announced the plans for a new company headquarters yesterday, the company’s expansion seems to be in full swing. For this reason, Epic announced the takeover of the development studio Rad Game Tools. The studio is primarily famous for its Blink middleware or the Miles Sound System. Epic would like to integrate these technologies in its Unreal Engine in the future. It is still unclear how high the costs of the takeover were.

If you believe the statements made by Rad Game Tools, around 25. 000 Games the products of the American developers. In addition to titles such as Diablo, these include Doom, Forza or Gears of War and Hitman. The middleware from Rad Game Tools is also used in Unreal Tournament.

In addition, said technology can be found in the Epic Battle Royal Shooter Fortnite. Thus, Epic Games is very familiar with the products of Rad Game Tools. Furthermore, the acquired company should not be exclusively responsible for the Unreal Engine in the future. Existing customers will continue to be served even after the takeover. Epic also intends to convince other game developers to use the Rad-Game-Tools-Middleware and to scale the company.

The development studio has been on the market since 1988 and opened 2008 a location in Japan.