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Epic Games DIGITAL

DIGITAL INFRASTRUCTURE AUDIT UPDATED 2026-09-22
Digital Score 0.00 /10 D Epic Games - BDS-1000 208
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Enterprise Technology Stack & Vendor Relationships

Epic Online Services’ published subprocessor list identifies AWS, Cloudflare, Confluent, Databricks, Functional Software/Sentry, Instaclustr, and New Relic, with listed processing locations in the United States 1. The disclosure is scoped to Epic Online Services and is not a comprehensive corporate supplier register 1.

Epic’s privacy policy identifies provider categories including database hosting and storage, CRM, email, anti-cheat and fraud prevention, payment processing, large-language-model providers, and marketing and advertising partners 2. The policy does not name an Israeli-origin vendor within those categories 2.

No public evidence identified of a direct Epic relationship with Check Point, Wiz, SentinelOne, CyberArk, NICE, Verint, Claroty, Palo Alto Networks, or another identified Israeli-origin enterprise-technology supplier.

Israel3D publicly represents itself as an official Israeli Twinmotion reseller or distributor, offers annual commercial licences and licence codes, and states that product downloads occur directly from Epic 3. This supports a claimed local commercial resale channel for Twinmotion, but Epic authorization, contractual terms, exclusivity, and ongoing status were not independently corroborated through an Epic source 3.

No public evidence identified of a major Epic systems integrator or outsourcing provider deploying Israeli-origin technology for Epic.

Surveillance, Biometrics & Retail Technology

No public evidence identified of Epic procuring or using Israeli-origin facial recognition, biometric identification, gait analysis, predictive policing, social-media monitoring, sentiment analysis, or workforce-surveillance technology.

The published Epic Online Services supplier disclosure identifies operational and analytics providers but does not identify biometric or surveillance products 1. Epic’s privacy disclosure also does not identify an Israeli-origin surveillance or biometric supplier 2.

No public evidence identified of an indirect deployment of such technologies through a documented Epic managed-service provider, bundled enterprise suite, or platform provider.

Cloud Infrastructure, Data Residency & Sovereign Cloud Participation

Epic’s Fortnite support documentation lists an Israel-labelled ping endpoint, ping-il.ds.on.epicgames.com, and states that the test measures a user’s route to a datacentre in that subregion 4. The same documentation states that game experiences may run in different datacentres 4.

The public endpoint evidence does not identify the facility operator, physical location, ownership, data categories processed, or whether Epic operates or leases the relevant infrastructure 4. It also does not establish Israeli residency or legal accessibility of Epic account, payment, or communications data 4.

Epic’s privacy policy states that Epic and its service providers may process personal information in the United States or other countries where they operate 2. The policy does not specify Israel as a processing, storage, or legal-access location 2.

The Epic Online Services subprocessor list identifies AWS as its listed cloud provider and gives United States locations for its listed subprocessors 1. This is evidence about the disclosed Epic Online Services processing chain rather than a complete map of all Epic product data flows 1.

The Israeli Government Procurement Administration’s Nimbus notice identifies AWS and Google as the selected public-cloud providers for that project 5. Epic is not identified in that official Nimbus notice 5.

No public evidence identified that Epic participates in Project Nimbus, operates Israeli data-centre infrastructure, or provides sovereign-cloud, data-residency, or resilience services to Israeli state or military bodies.

Defence, Intelligence & Security Sector Technology Relationships

In December 2015, Epic announced SoarTech as an official Unreal Engine 4 partner for government and military licensing, support, training, and development services 6. The announcement describes simulation and AI work in general terms and identifies no Israeli customer, Israeli intermediary, IDF unit, Ministry of Defense body, or Israeli intelligence agency 6. The announcement is historical evidence and does not establish the current status of that relationship 6.

No public evidence identified of an Epic contract, procurement award, partnership, reseller-mediated supply arrangement, or service agreement with the Israeli Ministry of Defense, IDF, Israeli intelligence services, or another Israeli security body.

No public evidence identified that Epic has developed, sold, licensed, or maintained offensive-cyber tools, exploit capabilities, zero-day tools, digital weapons, or comparable systems for Israeli state actors.

AI, Algorithmic & Autonomous Systems

Epic states that it uses information to improve machine-learning technologies used for personalised recommendations 2. Its privacy policy does not identify Israeli state or security customers, Israeli or occupied-territory-origin training data, or Israeli processing for those technologies 2.

No public evidence identified of Epic providing AI or machine-learning services, computer vision, autonomous decision-support, surveillance-derived-data services, target generation, fire-control automation, automated tracking, or kill-chain systems to Israeli state, military, intelligence, or security bodies.

The historical SoarTech partnership announcement refers generally to government and military simulation and AI work, without identifying Israeli users or applications 6. That announcement therefore does not substantiate an Epic relationship involving Israeli autonomous or military AI systems 6.

Technology Ecosystem & R&D Footprint

Epic describes itself as a U.S. company founded in 1991 by CEO Tim Sweeney, headquartered in Cary, North Carolina, with dozens of offices worldwide 7. Epic’s July 2025 privacy policy identifies subsidiaries supporting Epic Services, including Psyonix, Mediatonic, Aquiris Games Studio, Life on Air, and Kids Web Services 8. That policy identifies listed entities in the United States and United Kingdom but does not identify an Israeli data-controller entity 8.

Epic acquired RAD Game Tools’ technology and business in January 2021 and stated that RAD technology would be integrated into Unreal Engine 9. Epic announced in April 2023 that Brazil-based AQUIRIS was joining Epic as Epic Games Brasil following an earlier Epic investment 10.

No public evidence identified of an Epic-operated Israeli R&D centre, engineering office, innovation lab, accelerator, acquisition of an Israeli technology company, strategic investment in an Israeli technology startup or fund, or material co-development or patent arrangement with an Israeli research institution.

Israel3D’s asserted Twinmotion reseller role does not establish an Epic Israeli subsidiary, office, R&D facility, or local data-processing operation 3.

Epic’s April 2021 funding announcement stated that Tim Sweeney remained Epic’s controlling shareholder at that time 11. A June 2026 corporate disclosure filed for Epic states that Epic Games, Inc. has no parent corporation and that Tencent Holdings Limited and The Walt Disney Company each own more than 10% of Epic stock 12. Disney’s FY2024 annual report had reported an 8% Epic interest as of 28 September 2024, valued at $1.5 billion, while the later court disclosure reports ownership above 10% without explaining the change 13, 12.

Tencent announced in 2012 that it agreed to acquire a minority stake in Epic Games, with terms undisclosed 14. The U.S. Department of Justice stated in December 2024 that Tencent was an Epic minority shareholder, that two Tencent-appointed Epic directors had resigned, and that Tencent relinquished its unilateral right to appoint Epic directors or observers 15. The DOJ matter concerned U.S. interlocking-directorate rules rather than Israel-related conduct 15.

No public evidence identified of personal investments by Tim Sweeney in Israeli surveillance, cyber, AI, SIGINT, or military-technology companies.

Civil Society Scrutiny & Regulatory History

The supplied document-scoped scan found no mention of Epic Games in the reviewed UN Special Rapporteur report A/HRC/59/23 or the OHCHR business-enterprises database update A/HRC/60/19 16, 17. This finding is limited to those documents and does not establish Epic’s absence from all UN, OHCHR, or civil-society records 16, 17.

The supplied scan likewise found no Epic Games mention in the specified Amnesty International, Human Rights Watch, Al-Haq, PAX, BankTrack, BDS Movement, KLP, Who Profits, and Don’t Buy Into Occupation materials 16, 17. This is a bounded document-review result rather than a finding about all civil-society reporting 16, 17.

No public evidence identified of an organised boycott, divestment campaign, sanctions inquiry, export-control action, regulatory proceeding, or legal challenge specifically concerning Epic technology provision to Israeli state entities or occupied-territory operations.

The December 2024 DOJ action involving Tencent’s Epic and Riot holdings concerned potential Clayton Act section 8 interlocking-directorate issues and did not allege Israeli technology provision 15.

Footnotes

  1. https://onlineservices.epicgames.com/services/terms/subprocessors ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  2. https://legal.epicgames.com/epicgames/privacy-policy ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5 ↩6 ↩7

  3. https://www.israel3d.co.il/software/epic/twinmotion/ ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  4. https://www.epicgames.com/help/c-34254770/c-38015632/a22355516 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  5. https://www.mr.gov.il/ilgstorefront/en/news/details/111222 ↩ ↩2

  6. https://www.unrealengine.com/blog/soartech-partnership-government-military-applications ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4 ↩5

  7. https://www.epicgames.com/site/about ↩

  8. https://www.epicgames.com/site/privacypolicy ↩ ↩2

  9. https://www.epicgames.com/site/news/epic-acquires-rad-game-tools ↩

  10. https://www.epicgames.com/site/news/aquiris-is-joining-epic-and-becoming-epic-games-brasil ↩

  11. https://www.epicgames.com/site/news/announcing-a-1-billion-funding-round-to-support-epics-long-term-vision-for-the-metaverse ↩

  12. https://www.supremecourt.gov/DocketPDF/25/25-1311/412677/20260604171155764_Apple%20%20v.%20Epic%20BIO%20FINAL%20TO%20PRINT%20PDFA.pdf ↩ ↩2

  13. https://thewaltdisneycompany.com/app/uploads/2025/01/2024-Annual-Report.pdf ↩

  14. https://static.www.tencent.com/storage/uploads/2019/11/09/b0963ae0fe5736d1d2b1e7fd2bebb57f.pdf ↩

  15. https://www.justice.gov/archives/opa/pr/tencent-removes-two-directors-epic-games-and-relinquishes-its-right-unilaterally-appoint ↩ ↩2 ↩3

  16. https://docs.un.org/A/HRC/59/23 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4

  17. https://docs.un.org/A/HRC/60/19 ↩ ↩2 ↩3 ↩4