Epic Games announced today that it has acquired Rad Game Tools.
The Kirkland, Washington based company offers a variety of programs for game developers, including the Bink video codec, Oodle data compression and telemetry performance visualization.
“Rad team members will partner closely with Epic’s rendering, animation, insights and audio teams, integrating important technology and improvements into the Unreal Engine and beyond,” said Epic.
“The combined strengths of Rad and Epic will allow even more developers to have access to tools that make their games load and download faster and offer their players a better, higher quality gaming and video experience.”
Despite the acquisition, Rad will continue to work with companies other than Epic, whether they are using the Unreal Engine or not.
Rad was founded in 1988 and also has a Japanese office established in 2008. Its products have been used in almost 25,000 games.
The terms of the acquisition were not disclosed.
The Rad deal remains a busy stretch for Epic ahead of acquisition. Since the beginning of 2019, Epic has acquired 3Lateral, Agog Labs, Psyonix, Twinmotion, Houseparty, Quixel, Cubic Motion, Hyprsense and SuperAwesome for its ranks.
Earlier this week, it also acquired a shopping mall in North Carolina to serve as its future headquarters.