A Decade Ago, Epic Announced Fortnite And A Lot Has Changed Since Then

This past Thursday, The Game Awards 2021 happened. It was a messy, ad-filled event that did, every once in a while, give out some awards. But before Geoff Keighley was in charge of The Game Awards, he was running Spike TV’s Video Game Awards. And in 2011, a decade ago this weekend, his old award show debuted a trailer for a new game called Fortnite. Maybe you’ve heard of it?

In December 2011, Fortnite developer Epic Games was in a very different place. Today, the company is seen as a Valve-like technology company that cuts deals with other devs, runs its own PC game store, and licenses its popular Unreal Engine to other teams around the world while fighting tech giants like Apple and Google in court.

Back in 2011 though, Epic was mostly known as the studio behind Gears of War, Unreal Tournament, and the Unreal Engine. And back in December 2011, the company was coming off the release of Gears of War 3, and while it would help develop Gears of War Judgement alongside People Can Fly, it was clear that Epic was entering a new chapter as it mostly left the dudebros of Gears behind.

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