Epic Games purchased Tonic Games Group, the parent company of Fall Guys Mediatonic studio. The collective also includes the publisher Irregular Corporation and another studio, Fortitude Games.
“In addition to the shared vision among our teams, we see enormous potential in combining forces with Epic,” said Tonic Games Group co-founder and game director Paul Croft. or empowering other game developers to bring their core content from an idea to commercial success, we know that together we’ll be able to reach greater heights. ”
THE Fall Guys “the gameplay is not changing,” according to Epic. The company plans to continue investing in the hit Platformer Battle Royale. The game is currently available for PlayStation 4, PS5 and Steam. Fall Guys will land on Nintendo Switch and Xbox this summer. Presumably, after that deal, it will arrive at the Epic Games Store in the future as well.
In a blog post, Mediatonic said he hopes to bring some of the features of Fifteen days and Rocket League about for Fall Guys. This includes account systems, cross-game play and selection vs. selection modes. Unlike the other two games, Fall Guys will not play for free, at least not yet. Fall Guys already uses the same anti-cheat software that Fifteen days.
The news arrives on the same day Fall Guys Received five BAFTA Games Awards nominations. Mediatonic recently unveiled a futuristic theme for the game’s upcoming fourth season.