Epic Games acquires game development tool maker 'RAD Game Tools'! Further evolution of Unreal Engine is expected

Epic Games announced that it has acquired the technology and business of RAD Game Tools. RAD Game Tools (hereinafter referred to as RAD) is a company that develops and provides various middleware to support game development. There are 25,000 products using RAD's technology, which are also used by top companies around the world, including Epic Games.

Epic Games and RAD seem to be working together to fuse RAD's powerful technology into the Unreal Engine to benefit both the developer community and gamers.

Epic Games' Unreal Engine is a game engine that provides a comprehensive environment for creating games. Basically, you can easily create a single game with only the game engine if you prepare materials such as video. There are as many technologies that are difficult to implement in-game engines, such as data compression technology that covers high-speed decompression to compression. 

Covering the details of such game development with higher quality is a kind of tool called middleware provided by RAD, and this announcement particularly emphasizes the data compression technology possessed by RAD.

As Unreal Engine is equipped with high-performance compression technology as a standard, it provides more developers with tools that speed up game loading and downloading. In addition, there are various technologies covered by RAD, such as high-quality video codec and sound tools, and Granny, which enables efficient and flexible animation management. It is expected that the games created there will naturally change to high quality, bringing a higher quality gaming experience to players.