Not sure why people are downvoting this. You're posting some gaming news, not endorsing the guy

Tim's not going to be the one to save the bubble, but it sounds like that's what he's trying to do here

Excited for fortnite

That's you though. People saying the old launcher was sluggish wasn't uncommon. I'm sure Epic understands it's impossible or very hard to win some people over, so the best they can do is take steps to attract the rest.

Loads faster than Steam!

Look, I don’t use Steam over Epic because it loads faster, so telling me Epic now loads 5 seconds faster than Steam isn’t going to make me switch.

That's exactly where spic games will end up, as the gaming industry crawls towards playing on their remote hardware and renting that space.

Epic games is probably an ideal candidate to buy if this is your expectation for the industry AND you own streaming giant.

I wonder how the fight with Apple would play out if Epic was owned by Disney.

disney, one thing at a time. fix your disney + hemmhoraging money mahcine, slop generator first.

The monopolisation continues

Apart from gaming, Disney has been using Epic’s Unreal Engine in a product called StageCraft, where a virtual set is rendered on large, extremely high resolution LED screens forming the backdrop and ceiling of a set, as an alternative to chromakey with blue or green screens.

Sounds a bit concerning. Whatever Disney touches tends to turn to shit. It’s sort of like a reverse Midas touch, but with extra Disney flavor.

From what I know, Rocket League does maintain Linux support via Proton by allowing it through EAC, but there are hundreds titles on the Epic store, so Linux support for the launcher may allow them to ship native Linux ports.

Do Fortnite and Rocket League run on Linux then? AFAIK not. Without them, the Epic Launcher on Linux will be pointless.

EAC has had that for years. It's just that it's up to each developer to enable.

That's fine, but will anti-cheat for the multiplayer games be supported on Linux?

Of course, Steam has had voice chatting for a while, but making it possible on mobile (and consoles) seems to be unique to Epic. No third-party software like Discord needed.

Sweeney noted the industry faces "internal dysfunctions," such as the high cost of AAA game development, and outside challenges including the ongoing component shortage. "It's an unexpected, severe disruption," he said. "There's an unprecedented wave of investment in building AI systems and data centres, based on the belief that they're going to have a really transformational role in the economy, and the scale of the economic opportunity there means they can outbid the entire entertainment industry for all the components." So we're getting the short end of the stick, and the prices of RAM and storage are quadrupling, and not necessarily stopping there. We should expect there's just going to be a continual supply crisis for all gaming-relevant hardware for the next three years. The only solution, I think, is going to be building massive new factories to meet the world's capacity demands – and that will happen."

Oh. Okay, fair...

Wait, so is it not good news? Would you rather the ruling have gone in Google's favor? That's literally all I'm saying. I'm well aware of the coming lockdown.

Wow, thanks for sharing! This is tremendously great news!

games will start at 100GB

WHATEVER BRO

Come on man, can't you just think of the shareholders for moment?