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Epic Games acquires social network Houseparty

The app will still remain available as a standalone platform and data won't be shared across accounts

Date Type Companies involved Size
June 13th, 2019 acquisition Epic Games Not disclosed
Epic Games acquires social network Houseparty

Fornite and Unreal Engine developer Epic Games has acquired social platform Houseparty.

Dubbed as a "face to face" social network, Houseparty lets groups of people chat through voice and video in a chatroom style setting. It's available on Android and iOS, as well as MacOS and Google Chrome.

Standalone platform

The app will still remain available as a standalone platform, which means Houseparty and Epic accounts will not be connected and user data will not be shared between them.

"Joining Epic is a great step forward in achieving our mission of bringing empathy to online communication," said Houseparty CEO and co-founder Sima Sistani.

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