Epic Games buys RAD to work with Unreal Engine 5

On the official Epic Games website, information about the purchase of RAD Game Tools has appeared. The amount of the deal was not disclosed. The two companies are reportedly planning to integrate RAD technology into Unreal Engine 5 to benefit developers and gamers.

Epic CTO Kim Libreri spoke of the acquisition:

We know firsthand how impressive RAD's compression technology is. We use it to speed up downloads and improve the quality of our games, including Fortnite. The RAD team is made up of the world's leading game development experts, and we welcome them to the Epic family.

The purchase of RAD Game Tools is also due to the fact that Epic Game does not want its games to take up a huge amount of space, and therefore they use compression from RAD:

As game graphics get better and more photorealistic, developers need better compression software to handle large amounts of data without losing quality.

RAD Game Tools is known for being used in over 25 thousand different games. Thanks to this company, some of the titles take up much less memory space due to data compression.