We’ve seen the likes of Borderlands: The Handsome Collection and Into the Breach offered as freebies with which to entice consumers towards the Epic Games Store lifestyle, and it looks like there’s no current end to this delicious bait being thrown into the gaming waters currently. Those free games have been fantastic marketing for the EGS, and according to Epic CEO Tim Sweeney, they’ve also been fantastic for driving home awareness of other games and increasing sales across long after the free giveaway promotion has ended.

Following the release of the Unreal Engine 5 tech demo, Sweeny made it clear that he thinks Sony has the best hardware going forward.

The biggest spanner ever thrown into Valve’s dominance of the PC gaming market, Epic’s arrival has been both hailed as the best thing ever and criticised for a variety of reasons along the way. Has it been a profitable move for Epic so far then? Hell yeah.

With a far more generous cut of the sales of games done through them, the Epic Games Store has managed to earn plenty of exclusive titles and scorn from gamers alike. So what does Epic Games founder and head honcho Tim Sweeney have to say about all this? That this aggressive approach is the only way to break Valve’s monopoly on the industry.

In a series of tweets, Epic Boss Tim Sweeney said that the company would stop pursuing this sort of exclusivity deal if Steam would open its coffers up a little more.

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 …

"There is no hope of displacing a dominant storefront solely by adding marginally more store features or a marginally better install experience" says Epic's Tim Sweeney

Crossplay We all know that cross platform play between the Xbox One and PlayStation 4 versions of Fortnite’s Battle Royale is technically possible. Thanks to an accident, Epic managed to enable the feature before pulling it. Since then though, players have been asking for cross-platform play. Mostly, the blame for its lack of official support has been placed on Sony and their continued unwillingness to open up the cross-platform gates.