Epic has done it again! Late last night, Obsidian Games together with their publisher Private Division, announced that the studio was not going to be releasing The Outer Worlds on Steam as previously planned, and instead was going into a timed exclusivity deal with the Epic Games Store in addition to their already planned launch on the Microsoft Store for Windows 10. Chalk up another one for Epic's store.
Why not take a page out of the video game post-launch playbook then and give a detailed roadmap of content that is still to come? Because that’s exactly what the Epic Games Store is going to be doing as it looks to create a more feature-rich hub for purchasing games.
Epic’s Game store is a little barebones right now, but that doesn’t mean that features aren’t coming in the near future. Unfortunately, it also seems to have a few unwanted features running the background. According to a thread on Reddit, Epic’s store prods into your processes and spies on your Steam usage a little. Metacouncil and ResetEra user madjoki looked …
While I have been witness to the very critical debate surrounding the rise of the Epic Game Store and subsequent headlines, one developer and its CEO seem to be taking it all in their stride. That being Take-Two’s Strauss Zelnick, who states that competition is a positive factor, while also moving to spaces where the customers can be found. Speaking …
The Epic Games Store continues to gain traction as a viable distribution alternative for game developers and publishers. Following the recent announcement that Ubisoft’s Division 2 would be an exclusive offer on the new platform, there is now another headliner. Yesterday, Epic Games and Deep Silver announced that the publisher’s upcoming FPS title Metro Exodus would be exclusively offered by …
Steam’s refund policy is a great piece of consumer protection, one that new kid on the block Epic Games Store wants to emulate with their marketplace. Their system is pretty much exactly the same as Steam’s “any reason” policy: Buy a game, and you’ve either got two weeks or two hours to try it out and see if you like it.
Ubisoft has now announced that it’ll skip Steam for its impending online shooter, The Division 2. The game had a now removed Steam Page, with a Ubisoft representative saying “We have no plans currently on releasing Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 on Steam.”
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A spooky European village. Properly scary castle mania. Vampires. Werewolves! The only thing more frightening, is a glimpse at your empty bank account when it comes to deciding whether or not you can grab Resident Evil Village this month. Capcom's successor to its long-running survival-horror franchise is finally out, and if you've read our review then you know the game is a winner on multiple levels.
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