Epic Games today announced that it has acquired Rad Game Tools. The Kirkland, Washington-based outfit offers a variety of programs for game developers, including the Bink video codec, Oodle data compression, and Telemetry performance visualization. "Members of the Rad team will partner closely with Epic's rendering, animation, insights, and audio teams, integrating key tech and improvements across Unreal Engine and beyond," Epic said. "Rad and Epic combining forces will allow even more developers access to tools that make their games load and download faster, and offer their players a better,...