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The Epic Games founder who engineered Unreal Engine, made Fortnite a generational hit, and is suing Apple and Google to break their app store monopolies.
Founded Epic Games in 1991 (initially Potomac Computer Systems / Epic MegaGames) at age 21. Personally architected the original Unreal Engine — now Unreal Engine 5, the most-used commercial game engine in AAA development. Pivoted Epic into a publisher and platform with Fortnite (2017), the Epic Games Store (2018), and the ongoing Apple/Google antitrust lawsuits (2020-onward). Sweeney's legal campaign successfully forced Apple to allow alternative app payments in EU and South Korea and has reshaped global app-store fee policy.
Example
Sweeney's August 2020 'Project Liberty' campaign — secretly violating Apple and Google's app store rules with a hidden Fortnite payment system, then immediately suing both companies — was one of the most coordinated and consequential corporate antitrust actions in technology history.
Why it matters
Sweeney is one of the few CEOs personally engaged in both the technical (Unreal Engine architecture) and policy (platform-fee antitrust) layers of the games industry. His decisions reshape both engine economics and app-store policy globally.
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