Epic Games

Key Findings

• Economic: Epic supports Israeli-shekel pricing and an Israeli third party, Israel3D, publicly claims to market and distribute Twinmotion; Epic authorisation, terms, volume, and ongoing status were not independently corroborated.^{1, 2}
• Economic: Epic Games, Inc. has Israeli trademark-registration activity through an Israeli address for service; this does not establish an Israeli subsidiary or operating office.³
• Political: No public evidence identified of Epic facilities, customers, legal entities, contracts, or commercial activity in Israeli settlements or occupied territories in the reviewed record.^{4, 5}
• Not found: No public evidence identified of Epic contracts, products, services, procurement awards, or licensing arrangements with Israeli military, intelligence, or security bodies.^{6, 7}

Target Profile

Key Facts:

• Epic describes itself as a U.S. company founded in 1991 and headquartered in Cary, North Carolina.⁹
• Epic’s privacy policy identifies subsidiaries and affiliates supporting its services, but does not identify an Israeli data-controller entity.¹⁵
• EPIC GAMES UK LTD is an active UK private company; this subsidiary record does not establish ownership of Epic Games, Inc.^{16, 17}

Executive Summary

Epic Games is a privately held U.S. game and software company whose products and services include Fortnite, the Epic Games Store, Unreal Engine, Fab, and related online services.^{9, 15} The documentary record reviewed for this dossier establishes a limited commercial nexus to Israel: Epic supports Israeli-shekel pricing, introduced as a local Epic Games Store currency in August 2020, and Israel3D publicly describes itself as an official Israeli marketer and distributor for Twinmotion.^{1, 18, 2} The Israel3D representation supports a claimed local marketing and distribution channel, but no Epic-issued reseller agreement, official Epic partner listing, sales terms, exclusivity arrangement, sales volume, or independent confirmation of continuing authorisation was located.²

Israeli trademark records list Epic Games, Inc. as owner of trademark case 351810 and identify Dr. Shlomo Cohen & Co., Bnei Brak, as an Israeli address for service.³ This is evidence of trademark representation and registration activity, not evidence of an Epic Israeli subsidiary, office, workforce, or operating facility.³ The reviewed materials also do not establish Israel-specific revenues, taxable profits, employment, procurement, capital expenditure, or profit repatriation.¹⁹

The military and digital audits found no public evidence of contracts, procurement awards, licences, services, or partnership arrangements between Epic and the Israeli Ministry of Defense, IDF, Israeli intelligence bodies, Israeli security bodies, or Israeli defence primes.^{6, 7} Epic’s historical U.S.-oriented government and military intermediary announcements concerning SoarTech and Intelligent Decisions do not identify an Israeli customer or Israeli application.^{20, 21} A third-party Fab marketplace asset titled “Israel Defense Forces Soldier Configurator” likewise does not establish Epic authorship, Israeli state purchase or use, or an Epic–IDF contract.²²

No public evidence was identified of Epic-operated facilities, resellers, contracts, or other commercial activity in Israeli settlements, East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza, or the Golan Heights.⁴ The scoped reviews also found no Epic mention in the specified UN Special Rapporteur report, OHCHR settlement-business materials, or enumerated civil-society materials; these are bounded document-review findings, not proof of absence from all present, past, non-public, or future records.^{23, 24}

On the fixed, human-vetted V6.5 assessment, the documented Israeli market-access and trademark nexus produces the highest domain score in Economic, while Military, Digital, and Political remain zero because the reviewed evidence does not substantiate the corresponding forms of involvement. Epic’s final BRS is 208, placing it in Tier D (Moderate Complicity).

Timeline of Relevant Events

Corporate Overview

Epic Games, Inc. is a U.S. company headquartered in Cary, North Carolina. Public materials describe its business as video games, software, online services, marketplaces, developer tools, applications, websites, and live events.^{8, 9, 10} Epic’s privacy policy identifies group entities responsible for specified services, including Psyonix LLC, Harmonix Music Systems, Inc., Aquiris Game Studio LLC, Life on Air Inc., Epic Games Commerce GmbH, and Epic Games Entertainment International GmbH.¹⁵

The same policy identifies Swiss entities for specified non-U.S. services, but does not identify an Israeli Epic data-controller entity or purport to be a complete subsidiary register.¹⁵ Epic’s reviewed corporate materials establish acquisitions and group expansion including RAD Game Tools, AQUIRIS/Epic Games Brasil, Harmonix, and Tonic Games Group.^{29, 30, 31} None establishes an Epic-operated Israeli R&D centre, engineering office, acquisition of an Israeli technology company, Israel-focused fund, or local operating entity.^{15, 32}

The documented Israeli commercial relationship is narrower. Israel3D publicly asserts that it is an official Israeli marketer and distributor of Twinmotion, provides commercial licences and licence codes, and states that downloads occur directly from Epic.² That assertion has not been independently corroborated by an Epic source, and does not establish a subsidiary, exclusive distributorship, office, data-processing operation, or settlement activity.² Separately, Israeli trademark records support registration activity through a local address for service only.³

Domain Summaries

Military: Military

Mechanism of Involvement

No public evidence identified of an Epic Games, Epic International, or Unreal Engine contract, tender award, framework agreement, memorandum, procurement record, or service arrangement with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, IDF, Israel Prison Service, Border Police, Israeli intelligence bodies, or another Israeli security body in the scoped review.^{6, 7}

No public evidence identified of military-specific Epic product variants, Israeli defence end-user certificates, Israeli defence export-licence applications or decisions, weapons programmes, munitions, strategic-defence platforms, or critical weapon subsystems supplied to Israeli forces.^{7, 33} Nor did the reviewed material establish Epic supply of components, training, technology transfer, manufacturing services, co-production, or licensed manufacturing to IAI, Elbit, Rafael, IMI/Elbit Land, or another Israeli defence prime.^{7, 34}

GameReady identifies itself as an Official Unreal Engine Training Partner and displays Epic Games and Israel Aerospace Industries among organisations it says trust it.³⁴ This is GameReady’s self-published marketing statement. It does not specify a project, licensing arrangement, procurement relationship, component, training engagement, or direct Epic–IAI supply relationship.³⁴

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Epic’s strongest defence is the absence of substantiated Israeli military or security contracting in the reviewed record. Its products are characterised in court materials as general 3D-content-creation, real-time physics, and simulation tools used across industries, rather than identified Israeli military products.³³ Historical U.S. government/military partner announcements do not themselves establish Israeli end users, Israeli contracts, or current relationships.^{20, 21}

The Fab listing for an “Israel Defense Forces Soldier Configurator” is third-party marketplace content. It does not establish that Epic created it, that an Israeli state entity acquired it, or that it resulted from an Epic or IDF contract.²² The absence findings are limited to the sources and procurement materials reviewed and should not be read as proof that no undisclosed transaction has ever occurred.

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Digital: Digital

Mechanism of Involvement

Epic Online Services’ published subprocessor disclosure lists AWS, Cloudflare, Confluent, Databricks, Functional Software/Sentry, Instaclustr, and New Relic, with listed processing locations in the United States.³⁵ This is scoped to Epic Online Services and is not a complete corporate supplier register.³⁵ Epic’s privacy policy lists provider categories such as hosting, storage, CRM, anti-cheat, fraud prevention, payments, large-language-model providers, and advertising, but does not identify an Israeli-origin vendor in those categories.³⁶

Fortnite support documentation lists an Israel-labelled ping endpoint and says that it tests a user’s route to a datacentre in that subregion.³⁷ This does not identify the facility operator, physical location, ownership, data types, or whether Epic operates or leases infrastructure there; it also does not establish Israeli residency or legal access for account, payment, or communications data.³⁷ No public evidence identified that Epic participates in Project Nimbus, operates Israeli data-centre infrastructure, or supplies sovereign-cloud, data-residency, or resilience services to Israeli state or military bodies.³⁸

No public evidence identified of Epic procurement or deployment of Israeli-origin surveillance, biometric, facial-recognition, cyber, offensive-security, autonomous targeting, AI, or intelligence technology; likewise, no public evidence identified that Epic provides such technologies to Israeli state or security bodies.^{35, 36}

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

The best-supported reading is that Epic’s documented digital infrastructure is civilian online-service infrastructure. A ping endpoint is network-performance evidence only, not evidence of an Israeli Epic data centre, customer, or state relationship.³⁷ The published supplier disclosure is limited to Epic Online Services, so it cannot establish every Epic corporate data flow or supplier relationship.³⁵

Israel3D’s claimed Twinmotion reseller role is a local sales representation, not evidence of an Israeli R&D centre, cloud operation, enterprise-technology supply chain, or state-security arrangement.² Conversely, no-evidence findings are bounded by public materials and cannot rule out non-public arrangements.

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Economic: Economic

Mechanism of Involvement

Epic supports Israeli-shekel pricing. Epic announced this support as part of newly added Epic Games Store local currencies in August 2020.^{1, 18} This supports the availability of a localised commercial payment option, but the announcement does not disclose Israel-specific revenue, local staff, tax registration, market share, or an Israeli operating entity.¹⁸

Israel3D publicly describes itself as an official Israeli marketer and distributor for Twinmotion and offers annual commercial licences and licence codes.² The representation supports a claimed local marketing and distribution channel for digital architectural-visualisation software. However, no Epic-issued reseller agreement, official Epic partner-directory listing, commercial terms, sales volume, exclusivity, or independent confirmation of current authorisation was located.²

Israel’s Trademark Office lists Epic Games, Inc. as owner of trademark case 351810, with a U.S. filing reference and an Israeli address for service in Bnei Brak.³ This evidences trademark registration and representation, rather than an Israeli subsidiary, office, facility, factory, data centre, or workforce.³

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Epic’s economic relationship to Israel, as documented here, is materially limited and principally digital. No public evidence identified of physical-goods sourcing from Israeli agricultural exporters, Israeli importer-of-record activity, Israeli factories, logistics facilities, Israel-focused investment funds, Israeli sovereign-bond holdings, or Preferred Technology Enterprise status.^{39, 32}

No public evidence identified of Epic sales, services, contracts, customers, facilities, or commercial operations linked to settlements in the West Bank, East Jerusalem, or the Golan Heights.^{4, 2} Nor do reviewed materials provide audited consolidated accounts or reliable country-level Israel revenue, tax, employment, customer, procurement, or profit-flow disclosures.¹⁹ The claimed reseller relationship must therefore not be treated as proof of a formal Epic distribution contract or of a material economic footprint.

Named Entities and Evidence Map

Political: Political

Mechanism of Involvement

No public evidence identified of Epic corporate donations, matching-programme grants, sponsorships, crisis logistics, lobbying, advocacy, procurement intermediation, or financing directed to the IDF, FIDF, JNF/KKL, Israeli reservist funds, settlement organisations, Israeli state bodies, Palestinian political actors, or Palestinian relief organisations.⁴⁰

Epic’s Content Guidelines prohibit discriminatory material, real-world violence and assault, threats, and endorsement of terrorism or terrorist organisations.⁴¹ These are general platform rules; the guidelines contain no Israel-, Palestine-, Gaza-, settlement-, or conflict-specific provision.⁴¹ No public evidence identified of independently substantiated findings that Epic applies asymmetric moderation or differential policy enforcement to Israel/Palestine-related content.⁴¹

No public evidence identified of an Epic-operated facility, contract, reseller, legal entity, subsidiary, registered office, or commercial operation in Israeli settlements, East Jerusalem, the West Bank, Gaza, or the Golan Heights.^{4, 5} The reviewed evidence does not establish Israeli government, military, intelligence, settlement, or occupation-related customers.^{5, 6, 7}

Counter-Arguments and Evidence Limits

Epic’s strongest defence is that the reviewed record shows neither a political programme connected to Israel/Palestine nor settlement-linked operations. Its policies and public mission are general commercial and content-governance materials, not conflict-specific positions.^{41, 10} The BDS Movement’s November 2024 corporate-priority-target guide and the reviewed UN report did not mention Epic.^{42, 23}

These are limited documentary findings. They do not establish that Epic has never made an undisclosed donation, that it appears in no unreviewed reporting, or that future conduct cannot change the record. The lack of an identified Israeli political nexus should be stated as “No public evidence identified,” not as categorical proof of absence.

Named Entities and Evidence Map

BDS-1000 Score

Method: V6.5.

• V_MAX: 2.50 Avg_OTHERS: 0.00
• BRS Score: 208 Tier: D (Moderate Complicity)

Economic is the V_MAX because the evidence establishes Israeli-shekel market access and a claimed, though independently uncorroborated, Israeli Twinmotion marketing/distribution channel, alongside trademark-registration activity.^{1, 2, 3} The other domain scores remain zero because the audited record does not substantiate military, digital-security, settlement, or political involvement. The V6.5 method is scale-free, evidence-only, and human-vetted; it assesses the documented activity rather than imputing responsibility from ownership, market availability, or unverified associations.

Methodology Note

• Evidence is limited to the four supplied domain audits and their cited source record; claims are included only where supported by that record.
• Impact (I) assesses activity type; magnitude (M) assesses scale; and proximity (P) assesses directness of the documented nexus.
• The method is scale-free: a score is not a measure of a company’s overall size, popularity, revenue, or perceived political significance.
• Divested, exited, historical, or unresolved activity is mitigated or qualified; historical intermediary announcements do not establish current relationships.
• Entity attribution is direct: subsidiaries, shareholders, third-party marketplace listings, resellers, and counterparties do not create transitive guilt without evidence connecting Epic to the relevant conduct.
• Settlement operations, if documented, may be relevant to both Economic and Political; no public evidence identified of such Epic operations in the reviewed record.
• “No public evidence identified” denotes the result of the specified public and document-scoped checks, not proof that all possible non-public or future evidence is absent.