Cloudgine Limited was a British
video game developer
A video game developer is a broad term for a software developer specializing in video game development – the process and related disciplines of creating video games. A game developer can range from one person who undertakes all tasks to a large ...
based in
Edinburgh. Founded in 2012 by
Dave Jones, it focuses on
cloud technologies for video games. It was acquired by
Epic Games
Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina. The company was founded by Tim Sweeney as Potomac Computer Systems in 1991, originally located in his parents' house in Potomac, M ...
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. 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.
Their first game, ''
Crackdown 3'', was announced by
Microsoft Studios at the June 2014
Electronic Entertainment Expo
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. Bearing the working title ''Crackdown'', the game was announced to release for
Xbox One at an unspecified date. Although the game was later scheduled for a 2016 release, it had been delayed into February 2019, and was additionally released on
Microsoft Windows
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. The game makes extensive use of Cloudgine's proprietary cloud computing technology, which they claim makes the game able to process physics calculations thirteen times as fast as with a standard Xbox One. Meanwhile,
Oculus Studios released the Cloudgine-developed
freeware Oculus Touch game ''Toybox'' in December 2016.
In January 2018, it was announced that Cloudgine had been acquired by
Epic Games
Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina. The company was founded by Tim Sweeney as Potomac Computer Systems in 1991, originally located in his parents' house in Potomac, M ...
for an undisclosed sum. Epic Games plans to natively integrate Cloudgine's technology into their game engine,
Unreal Engine.
Games developed
References
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