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Epic Games has pretty offices, nice cars photo

I had a chance to spend some time at Epic Games' Cary, North Carolina offices, mainly to spend some time with the multiplayer portions of Unreal Tournament 3 on the PC. Yes, the game was impressive, and I surely will be doing a more detailed write-up of the various modes I played. But more importantly -- what does the dungeon look like that Gears of War was made in? Does Cliffy B use the bathrooms on the first or second floor?

While I don't have a definitive answer to that last question, I can guess that he most likely uses the more private, "home" style bathrooms that you can find on the first floor. But that's just a guess. As for what the rest of the offices look like, take a look for yourself.

I don't claim to be an ace photographer, so please forgive the quality of the photos. But you can get a good sense of where the Epic team is spending long hours during these last few weeks of Unreal Tournament 3 crunch time. We're talking multiple break rooms (with classic arcade cabinets and table tennis), a big on-site motion capture facility, a basketball court, a full weight room, and more. Oh, and they also have offices where they do actual work, too.

No doubt these guys work hard, but they certainly don't live hard -- one look at the cars in Epic's parking lot could tell you that. It's like high-end automobile showroom, with gorgeous sports cars lining the rows of the sizable lot. What did these guys do, ship a blockbuster Xbox 360 game or something?

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Variable Gear's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/10/2007 16:03
Variable Gear
Nice photos!

And a Ms. Pac-Man machine - awesome!
Jetsetlemming's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/10/2007 16:18
Jetsetlemming
Lucky you. Also, holy shit, replica Chainsaw rifle thing from Gears of War. :O

You'd think with all that wealth they could afford to relocate to somewhere better than North Carolina. At least somewhere where the summer isn't likely to melt you like the wicked witch of the west.
Nick Chester's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/10/2007 16:23
Nick Chester
All of the guys seem to really like North Carolina -- it's a pretty nice area, I don't blame them!
JayTapp's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/10/2007 16:43
JayTapp
Tell that to all the game developper in Montréal with our -25oC in the winter.
BS3 Owner's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/10/2007 16:44
BS3 Owner
I LOL'ed @ The Pic w/Caption! Good Show Ol' Chap!?
IceMax's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/10/2007 16:44
IceMax
I'm sure it a lot cheaper to have an office buliding there than in NYC or LA or redwood
king3vbo's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/10/2007 16:47
king3vbo
sweet pics
BS3 Owner's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/10/2007 16:50
BS3 Owner
Flagstaff, AZ is a wonderful Homless Vagabond, Meth Addicted... Theiving Paradise!

Nice Weather, Spectacular Sunsets/Rises, & Grand Canyon....... It's all so beautiful, As long as you're still breathing!

Move there Epic, you'll come up w/even more sinister looking games, garontee!

SW33T! 2nd Home... ( I'm on my 4th... )
rpbowlinggod's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/10/2007 17:36
rpbowlinggod
I love the fact that your photo skills make it look like they just moved in.
Variable Gear's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/10/2007 17:47
Variable Gear
Your home city is as boring as you make it. If you have great rock shows in your hometown and you never go, you aren't really taking advantage of your circumstances - or you don't like rock music.

Anyway, I'm happy to see that Epic Games is able to balance comfort and creation in their place of business.
WastelandTraveler's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/10/2007 18:50
WastelandTraveler
You bastard nick.. why don't I get info on these nice things. I live in cary :( you break my heart <\3. Hopefully I will be able to go out there some time, ive been dieing to. Hell I'll give you a tour of my companies 4 man office lolol but we publish games!
Painuser's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/10/2007 19:49
Painuser
Why are you guys bashing NC? Raleigh was voted one of the best places to live in the United States a bunch of times in the past 10 years. Their are alot of tech jobs around here and we are home to IBM / Redhat / Cisco / Epic / Raven / Bioware / Qualcomm / Dell / SAS / and loads more. Great place to live, and I actually work for SAS. Free company gym / massage therapy, we have a loads of other goodies, Google isnt the only good company to work for =]
Furnimus's Avatar - Comment posted on 10/11/2007 15:02
Furnimus
Epic rocks my socks. GoW 2, anyone?
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