Cloudgine

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Cloudgine Limited
Epic Games (2018–present)
Websitecloudgine.com

Cloudgine Limited was a British

cloud technologies for video games. It was acquired by Epic Games
in 2018 and integrated.

History

Cloudgine was founded in 2012 by Dave Jones, best known as the co-creator of the Grand Theft Auto and Crackdown video game series, Maurizio Sciglio and Marco Anastasi.[1] All three were previously employed by Realtime Worlds and worked on APB: All Points Bulletin (2010), of which Jones as creative director. Cloudgine prioritises on real-time cloud computing technologies, which can be integrated into video games to allow complex calculations to be executed on inferior hardware.[2]

Their first game,

Oculus Studios released the Cloudgine-developed freeware Oculus Touch game Toybox in December 2016.[11]

In January 2018, it was announced that Cloudgine had been acquired by Epic Games for an undisclosed sum.[12][13] Epic Games plans to natively integrate Cloudgine's technology into their game engine, Unreal Engine.[14]

Games developed

Year Title Platform(s) Publisher(s) Notes
2016 Toybox Microsoft Windows
Oculus Studios
 For Oculus Rift devices with the Oculus Touch controllers
2019 Crackdown 3 Microsoft Windows, Xbox One
Microsoft Studios
 Co-developed the campaign with Sumo Digital and Reagent Games

References

  1. GamesBeat
    . Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  2. GamesIndustry.biz
    . Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  3. ^ Mejia, Ozzie (9 June 2014). "Crackdown coming to Xbox One from Cloudgine". Shacknews. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  4. ^ Donlan, Christian (9 June 2014). "A new Crackdown is coming to Xbox One". Eurogamer. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  5. ^ Scammell, David (30 January 2014). "Crackdown 3 'coming to Xbox One in 2016'". VideoGamer.com. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  6. Siliconera
    . Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  7. USgamer
    . Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  8. ^ Chalk, Andy (14 June 2016). "Crackdown 3 is coming to PC, but not until 2017". PC Gamer. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  9. ^ Totilo, Stephen (12 June 2014). "The New Crackdown Will Use The Cloud A Lot". Kotaku. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  10. ^ "The Game That Could Change Xbox One Forever". GamesTM. 27 October 2015. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  11. GamesBeat
    . Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  12. Gamasutra
    . Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  13. ^ Grubb, Jeff (22 January 2018). "Epic acquires Cloudgine so Unreal devs can offload game processing to servers". VentureBeat. Retrieved 22 January 2018.
  14. GamesIndustry.biz
    . Retrieved 22 January 2018.

External links

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