Epic Games have purchased Tonic Games Group, the developer behind Fall Guys: Ultimate Knockout. Epic Games is broadly recognized for its battle royale sport Fortnite. The firm introduced the acquisition of the Tonic Games Group on Tuesday. In a blog post, Epic Games mentioned that regardless of the acquisition, the gameplay for the well-liked sensation Fall Guys won’t be altering. While it’s at present obtainable on PC and PlayStation, Epic assured that plans of bringing it to Nintendo Switch and Xbox are nonetheless on as acknowledged by Tonic earlier.
Dave Bailey, Tonic Games Group Co-Founder and CEO, mentioned that Epic is like a house to them that was made for them. He added that the two companies “share [their] mission to build and support games that have a positive impact, empower others and stand the test of time”.
Tim Sweeney, Epic Games Founder and CEO, talked about how Tonic shared their imaginative and prescient of constructing a metaverse.
In one other blog post, Tonic mentioned that Fall Guys won’t be altering in any manner and that Epic will assist them ship the well timed upgrades to the sport. Fall Guys can even get some of the options resembling account programs, cross-play, squad vs squad modes seen in Fortnite and Rocket League in the future. Epic has just lately additionally purchased the hit on-line sport Rocket League.
The Q&A additionally cleared up that the sport was not going to turn into free-to-play simply now. The submit added why they selected Epic Games, saying that each the companies had a lot of frequent objectives and Tonic is bound of taking Fall Guys to the subsequent degree with the support of Epic behind them.
Fall Guys was launched in August 2020 and it quickly turned a sensation throughout the world. The sport has a number of jelly beans as the essential characters of the battle royale and incorporates a battle go system, additionally seen in Fortnite.