Epic wins North Carolina tech award

by Jason Dobson { Nov 17th 2008 at 11:30PM }

Mark Rein and company will have another memento to share during the office barbeque as Epic has been recognized as the "Top Industry Driven Technology Company of the Year," at least on the Atlantic Seaboard. The accolade was given by the North Carolina Technology Association, or NCTA, as part of the organization's annual NCTA 21 awards ceremony, which applauds technology go-getters in the Tar Heel State.

Other finalists for the award included Parata Systems, PeopleClick and Railinc, companies we imagine lost out due to their flagrant disregard for rag doll physics and courtroom shenanigans.

Tags: awards, epic, epic-games, epicgames, ncta, north-carolina, northcarolina, unreal, unreal-engine, unreal-engine-3, unrealengine3

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Reader Comments (Page 1 of 1)

MC Double Def DP @ Nov 17th 2008 11:38PM

This one's for Unreal Engine! C'mon and raise up!
Take your shirt off, twist it 'round yo head!
Spin it like a helicopter

Mark @ Nov 18th 2008 8:26AM

Man I had to do it
just incase you were one of the ones who wanted to come and ask somethin stupid
(What you think you doin?) What it look like?
Puttin it down for my niggaz in the south side
North Carolina, South Carolina
And all my little bitty ova looked hick towns

reppy @ Nov 18th 2008 1:38AM

*cough* Epic win.

Premature ejaculation man @ Nov 18th 2008 2:37AM

While it does have its problems, the UE3 has been the engine that drives some very very good looking games.

I'm sure they've made a killing too.

ThornedVenom (Harley Quinn Defense Force) @ Nov 18th 2008 2:54AM

Cheers for Unreal Engine, for delivering good looking games without completely murdering my hardware.

coop510 @ Nov 18th 2008 3:26AM

It really is an awesome thing. Epic definitely deserves it, hopefully this will bring some political recognition to the industry in these parts so we can get some of those game industry tax breaks Huston has been enjoying. I'm also glad Parata was a finalist since I've been working with that company doing contract work since they moved into Durham. (they make pill counting/bottling machines.... whoo)

SITEiNK @ Nov 18th 2008 3:57AM

this is going to be great. But I really think it's pretty lame that they have to bring things down to update it. It needs to be much more seamless than that.
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