Company milestone · 1991
Tim Sweeney founded Epic Games in 1991. The company’s official profile identifies Cary, North Carolina, as its headquarters. This founding year is not a verified logo-introduction date. [1]
Epic Games Logo
Archive record · not confirmed as the current logo.
Logo files, variants & history · SVG, PNG · updated 2 mo ago
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Brand profile
About Epic Games
Game developer, publisher and technology company
Epic Games develops games and engine technology. Its corporate identity is distinct from the Epic Games Store, Unreal Engine and Fortnite brands.
Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina. Tim Sweeney founded it in 1991 as Potomac Computer Systems, in his parents’ house in Potomac, Maryland; it became Epic MegaGames in early 1992 and took the name Epic Games in 1999 after moving to Cary.
The company develops Unreal Engine, a commercially licensed game engine that also powers its own games, including Fortnite and the Unreal, Gears of War and Infinity Blade series. Sweeney remains the controlling shareholder; in 2012 Tencent acquired a stake equal to 40 percent of the company.
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Epic Games logo files at a glance
Epic Games has 6 downloadable files in SVG, PNG in this archive. 1 logo record is catalogued; that is not the number of verified redesigns.
PNG renditions reach 2,048 pixels on the longest side.
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Monochrome rendition · Community reproduction
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Brand heritage
Logo history & brand milestones
One logo record is catalogued. The milestones below are dated separately from it.
Company names, products and ownership milestones. No dated change to the Epic Games logo is recorded in the sources checked. Company and product dates are labelled separately from design changes.
Company milestone · 1992
Sweeney renamed the company Epic MegaGames in early 1992, choosing a name meant to make the one-person business sound larger, and brought in Mark Rein as vice president. [2]
Product milestone · 1998
Epic MegaGames released Unreal, a 3D first-person shooter co-developed with Digital Extremes, and began licensing its core technology, Unreal Engine, to other developers. [2]
Company milestone · 1999-02
Epic MegaGames announced that it had moved its headquarters to Cary, North Carolina, and would be known simply as Epic Games. [2]
Company milestone · 2012
Tencent acquired a 48.4 percent stake in Epic’s outstanding shares, equal to 40 percent of the company, as part of an agreement aimed at moving Epic towards a games-as-a-service model. [2]
Product milestone · 2017-09
Epic released Fortnite Battle Royale as a free-to-play game for computers, consoles and mobile devices. [2]
Research sources
- About Epic Games ↗ · Epic Games · accessed 2026-09-08
- Epic Games ↗ · Wikipedia · accessed 2026-09-25
Compiled 2026-09-25 by AI-assisted source review. Each statement links its sources; an editor has not yet independently confirmed them.
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Epic Games logo Monochrome rendition · Community reproduction
Monochrome community vector reproduction from Simple Icons. The SVG is a sanitized drawing copy and PNGs are generated renditions, not official press-kit masters. The collection date is not the logo’s introduction date.
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All 1 logo record for Epic Games
- Epic Games logo Monochrome rendition · Community reproduction (this page)
Colour sample
Rendition colours
Black (primary sample)Primary
- HEX
- #000000
- RGB
- 0, 0, 0
Text contrast on white21:1 · AAA
Text contrast on near-black1.11:1 · Fail
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Design context
Logo design & typography notes
A dated sequence of corporate-shield redesigns and an original designer credit have not been verified for this record.
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- Source
- github.com/simple-icons/simple-icons · icons/epicgames.svg
- Source date
- 2026-09-08
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- Originality
- Community vector reproduction; not an official master
- SHA-256
- 7f2a886588f263c00c51cec69e6504b57e3ffb53ed8f8bf58db730b7c90dc1de
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2026-09-08Epic Games: source-attributed artwork and PNG/SVG renditions added.
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