Fall Guys developer Mediatonic and its parent company Tonic Games Group have announced today that they have "joined the Epic Games family", having been purchased by Epic for an undisclosed sum.
According to the Tonic Games Group, the gameplay of Fall Guys - which is still planned to be brought to Xbox - won't be changing as a result, and Epic will "continue to invest in making the game a great experience."
Mediatonic says that it has "nothing to announce right now" about whether the game will eventually go free-to-play like Epic Games' highly successful Fortnite, but there are plans to bring certain other Fortnite features over to the game, such as "account systems, cross-play, squad vs squad modes, etc."
"This is a huge win for Fall Guys. Since Fall Guys broke out in August, we’ve put everything we have into the game, and the Fall Guys team has already grown massively from 35 to 150+. Yet, there is so much more we want to build for our players.
Joining forces with Epic will accelerate our plans to improve the game and bring Fall Guys to as many players as possible, while continuing to support the community."
What do you make of this news? Give us your thoughts down in the comments below.
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Because Epic didn't control enough of F2P gaming already (and let's face it, this game now will soon GO F2P just like rocket league.)
This game needs to go F2P, it only took off do well on PlayStation because it was included with + on launch. Hopefully it comes to gamepass
There just isn't enough game to warrant paying - especially as it is fully reliant on an active user base, at least Fortnite has Save the World to play solo.
A tenner says Epic owns Roblox by this time next year.
@Insightful Yeah the game was just sort of a flavor of the month sort of deal, it's popularity was really being pushed by a lot of big streamers who were playing the game back when it released. They all moved on a while ago so their audience moved on as well.
I played the game a bit on my PS4 as it was a PS+ title and it's alright, I could see how it could be fun with the right group of people but it's not the type of thing that I could stay interested in for long. The kind of game where you just laugh as the silliness of it all but it's hard to take it seriously.
Yes I think the same, left it too late to hit xbox my daughter says it so over now. She wanted it a few months ago but now not bothered
Epic somehow will use rocket league and fortnite to promote fall guys and have way more events, stages and cross overs such as marvel and star wars, Fall Guys is going to explode in the coming months
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