Epic Games opens Korean shop

By Brendan Sinclair, GameSpotPosted Jun 29, 2009 10:48 am PT

Seoul-based subsidiary established to provide better support to local Unreal Engine licensees.

If North Carolina-based Epic Games keeps expanding, it won't be long before the Gears of War developer and Unreal Engine maker boasts an "epic" organization in scale as well as in name. In 2007, the company acquired Painkiller studio People Can Fly and followed that up with the acquisition of Undertow developer Chair Entertainment. Even Epic's Chinese operation has been expanding, recently opening up a Seattle, Washington-based arm.

In the grim darkness of the future, all combat armor will feature fluorescent blue nipples.

The growth trend continues, as today the company announced the opening of Epic Games Korea. A wholly owned subsidiary centered in Seoul, the new shop will handle Unreal Engine 3 licensing and support to the Korean development community.

The lack of a local Epic subsidiary hasn't kept Korean companies from signing on to use Epic's Unreal tech in their games. Webzen has been building its long-awaited online shooter Huxley using Unreal Engine 3, while NCsoft adopted the technology for a pair of "top-tier" massively multiplayer online games last year.

The Korean outfit will be headed up by territory manager Ray Park, a former business and strategy development manager for Massive Inc. Beyond helping Microsoft's in-game ad provider establish a foothold in Korea, Park is also a veteran of Sony Computer Entertainment Korea, where he managed the third-party software licensing group. Former Softmax lead engine programmer Jack Porter will also be a core part of the Epic Games Korea team. It will be Porter's second tour of duty with Epic, having previously worked on Unreal Engine and the Unreal series of games for the company.

34 Comments

  • Glade_Gnarr

    Posted Jul 1, 2009 5:02 pm PT

    I'm getting tired of the unreal engine, everything looks the same.

  • Zerot

    Posted Jun 30, 2009 8:16 am PT

    huxly looked cool at first then after seeing game play movies of it it plays exactly like unreal looks just like a mmo rocket feet spam and we have quake live for that.

  • QuatrixJ

    Posted Jun 30, 2009 8:12 am PT

    I can't stand that stupid use of the word "shop".

  • centuryslayer

    Posted Jun 30, 2009 4:04 am PT

    @ XCyberForceX: you and me both. and from the E3 video clips it looks like a low budget, bad version of Unreal Tournament. it even has the commentator thing (double kill! headshot! etc) laaaame!

  • pakhair

    Posted Jun 30, 2009 2:29 am PT

    Cmon man, Give us anything related to Huxley...........

  • Pete5506

    Posted Jun 29, 2009 7:40 pm PT

    I like the unreal engine, I'm glad its getting used

  • XCyberForceX

    Posted Jun 29, 2009 5:41 pm PT

    I think I'm gonna take Huxley off my "Games I'm watching." Its a frakken joke how this game continues to float in limbo forever. I don't give a frak any more. When it comes out, if it comes out, then I'll pay attention. This will be my last statement pertaining to Huxley until its actually released.
    And waht does this update have to do with Huxley anyway?

    Later

  • DEATH775

    Posted Jun 29, 2009 4:45 pm PT

    You don't habe any idea what your talking about.
    Ong Bak is awesome.

  • shkar

    Posted Jun 29, 2009 4:10 pm PT

    Ok we may see an ONG BAK based game on the unreal engine..........LOL just kidding

  • Unheard-Volume

    Posted Jun 29, 2009 4:10 pm PT

    What does this have to do with Huxley??? They should either cancel this game or give us some more recent footage to "chew" on!!!

  • batmanboy11

    Posted Jun 29, 2009 3:55 pm PT

    Interesting...

  • Wings_008

    Posted Jun 29, 2009 3:46 pm PT

    does that mean that Marcus fenix is actually korean,lol

  • dgsag

    Posted Jun 29, 2009 2:31 pm PT

    funny how Crytek beat them to this like a year ago...

  • k0r3aN_pR1d3 posted Jun 29, 2009 2:25 pm PT (does not meet display criteria. sign in to show)

    k0r3aN_pR1d3

    Posted Jun 29, 2009 2:25 pm PT (hide)

    재미겠다

  • funsohng

    Posted Jun 29, 2009 2:24 pm PT

    @kavadias1981
    as a korean, i can say they are pretty much the same in terms of the governemnt

  • Regisland

    Posted Jun 29, 2009 2:06 pm PT

    @kavadias1981

    i LOLed lmao

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