Epic today announced acquisitions of 3Lateral and Agog Labs.

3Lateral

3Lateral develops digital humans technology and creative content and has a history of collaboration with Epic. The Serbia-based group will continue supporting game industry, film, and television partners while working to advance the state of the art in Unreal Engine's support for virtual humans and creatures.

3Lateral collaborated on A Boy and His Kite, Hellblade: Senua's Sacrifice, and the photorealistic, real-time Siren and Digital Andy Serkis demonstrations.

Agog Labs

Agog Labs has also joined Epic Games. The makers of the SkookumScript plugin for Unreal Engine 4 and Unreal Dev Grant recipients in 2015 will continue working on new projects with the Unreal Engine team.

SkookumScript is a powerful scripting solution and command console used to create AI, gameplay, and high-level stage direction aspects of projects of all types across major platforms. Its live workflow includes simple features, native game concepts such as concurrency with minimal lines of code, and deep integration with Blueprints and C++.