Today Epic Games announced that it was acquiring veteran tools maker RAD Game Tools. The deal has been made for an undisclosed sum.
RAD Game Tools remains best known for its Bink video compression format, which has been popular with game developers for 20 years now. More important today though are its Oodle and Telemetry products.
Oodle is a data compression tool, providing faster data loading. Its Kraken codec was specifically mentioned in the PS5 deep dive, with Sony’s new hardware natively supporting the codec for data compression, most important when steaming in massive amounts of texture data.
Telemetry meanwhile is a performance visualisation tool, which looks to provide easily understandable information about your code to allow for troubleshooting and optimisation.
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Epic Games Acquired RAD Games Tools
Epic Games has officially acquired software developer RAD Game Tools which has been a prominent feature in around 24,600 games to date. The game tools will be leveraged as part of Epic Games’ Unreal Engine, but it won’t be exclusive to the engine either, allowing developers from other teams to continue using RAD Game Tools. Epic Games’ Fortnite is available for free right now on Xbox One, Xbox Series X/S, PS4, PS5, Nintendo Switch, PC, Mac, and Android.
“We know first-hand how impressive RAD’s compression technology is, having used it to improve the load time and quality of our most popular games, including Fortnite,” said Chief Technology Officer at Epic Games, Kim Libreri. “The RAD team includes some of the world’s leading compression, video, and game dev tooling experts, and we are thrilled to welcome them to the Epic family.”
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Fortnite Studio Aims To Improve Loading Times With Acquisition Of RAD Game Tools
Epic Games has acquired RAD Game Tools, and the company says it will be good for developers and gamers alike.
After splashing out $95 million to buy a new corporate headquarters, Fortnite studio Epic Games is spending again, this time to acquire a gaming technology company that promises to work with Epic to among other things improve loading times in games.
Epic has purchased the gaming software company RAD Game Tools. You may not know the company by name, but you are likely familiar with its work in some way, shape, or form. That s because the tools that RAD makes have been used in close to 25,000 games. The company claims at least one of its products is used in almost every video game made today.