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Jacob Blazewicz, 22 March 2019, 15:59

Epic Games addressed the controversies surrounding the company's activities in the last weeks.

Christian Pieniazek, 22 March 2019, 00:27

Among the highlights of Valve's panel during this years Game Developers Conference were the reworked layout of Steam library and developer events. The former can be examined up close, and some interesting details have been revealed concerning the latter.

Frozen, 21 March 2019, 23:52

Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Games, assures that his company's Store will not be selling bad games. It will also not offer pornographic production and those created only with shock value in mind.

Milosz Szubert, 21 March 2019, 15:36

Humble announced cooperation with Epic Games. Humble Store and Humble Bundles will offer activation keys to games offered on Epic Games Store. What's more, we've learned that in total, the retailer has donated over $145 million to charity.

Jakub Mirowski, 17 March 2019, 12:19

Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Games, has taken the floor on Reddit and commented that securing exclusive titles for the Epic Games Store platform is not an anti-consumer, but rather a "procompetitive" action.

Adrian Werner, 15 March 2019, 14:39

We've learned the roadmap for Epic Games Store. The creators of the platform are working on e.g. adding support for mods, achievements, user reviews and wishlists.

Jacob Blazewicz, 08 March 2019, 23:11

Tom Clancy's The Division 2 will only be available on Uplay and Epic Games Store beginning with the day of release. The info comes from the British website Gamesplanet, according to which Ubisoft will ban all independent digital stores from selling the

Agnes Adamus, 07 March 2019, 13:56

Valve took a lot of flak recently for allowing Rape Day, a controversial title that deals with violence against women, to be released on Steam. The company has decided to intervene and removed the game from Steam's offer.

Milosz Szubert, 06 March 2019, 13:17

Mike Rose, the founder of No More Robots, has noticed a peculiar unfair practice adopted by some developers on Steam. Here's the trick - a fake release date is being set, and changed, to keep the title on top of the recommended upcoming titles list.

Milosz Szubert, 28 February 2019, 10:52

GOG offers a new function - GOG Direct to Account. It enables us to buy games and contents in selected partner stores and have it connected directly to our GOG account.

Michael Kulakowski, 26 February 2019, 22:29

As part of changes introduced at GOG.com, the CEO decided to abandon the Fair Price Package Program, which compensated for regional differences game prices in the form of a virtual currency added to customers' cart.

Adrian Werner, 26 February 2019, 10:05

GOG.com has fired a significant number of employees. The reason for the layoffs is allegedly financial difficulties and the mounting market pressure to reduce the revenues of digital distribution stores.

Jacob Blazewicz, 19 February 2019, 01:18

The independent developer Weather Factory boasted pushing 100,000 copies of Cultist Simulator. What's interesting, the devs have revealed the sales data for all major digital stores, providing a clear picture of the market.

Adrian Werner, 17 February 2019, 16:47

Razer Game Store, the digital distribution service founded by the dedicated gaming peripherals manufacturer, will close by the end of this month.

Bart Swiatek, 15 February 2019, 15:27

Yves Guillemot, President of Ubisoft, said in a conversation with investors that the number of pre-orders for the PC version of The Division 2 is higher than for the first installment of the series.

Bart Swiatek, 07 February 2019, 23:24

In the wake of recent controversies surrounding Epic Games Store, the CEO of Take-Two Interactive presented his stance on the issue of exclusivity.

Frozen, 07 February 2019, 00:44

The popularity of digital distribution keeps on growing. As much as half of console games sold by EA last year were bought without a physical medium.

Jacek Weichert, 02 February 2019, 19:14

Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Games, announced that in the near future the Epic Games Store will receive a game review system.

Konrad Serafinski, 28 January 2019, 21:29

Deep Silver and Epic Games announced that Metro Exodus will be an exclusive Epic Store title for one year.

Adrian Werner, 24 January 2019, 13:29

SuperData Group has published a report summarizing the results of the digital games market for December last year. Fortnite: Battle Royale turned out to be the leader on consoles. Battlefield V is doing poorly.

Adrian Werner, 18 January 2019, 00:51

SuperData Group has published a report summarizing the results of the digital gaming market for the past year. The leader was Fortnite, which generated 2.4 billion dollars of revenue.

Bart Swiatek, 16 January 2019, 00:17

Sergey Galyonkin, the director responsible for preparing the Epic Games Store's publishing strategy, presented a lot of information about the backstage of the platform.

Adrian Werner, 15 January 2019, 21:53

Valve has released a report summarizing the past year on Steam. We learned, among other things, that the number of monthly users of the service reaches 90 million people.

Milosz Szubert, 14 January 2019, 18:19

Sony published a list of the most downloaded games and add-ons from PlayStation Store in 2018. It is dominated by FIFA 19, Call of Duty: Black Ops 4 and Red Dead Redemption 2.

Bart Swiatek, 14 January 2019, 12:21

Steam host more than 30 thousand video games at this point. The fact that most of them came out in the last 2 years is, however, symptomatic.

Michael Kulakowski, 13 January 2019, 12:08

A few weeks after its launch, the Epic Games Store joins a competition like Steam or Origin and starts accepting complaints, offering a refund for the games you bought.

Bart Swiatek, 04 January 2019, 13:58

An amendment in the Unfair Competition Prevention Act was passed in Japan, penalizing serial code auctions and tempering with game saves.

Adrian Werner, 21 December 2018, 20:20

We have learned the results of digital sales of Fallout 76 and Battlefield V. It looks like both titles performed worse than their predecessors.

Agnes Adamus, 21 December 2018, 19:21

The expansion of Epic Games Store continues. The Walking Dead: The Final Season has just joined the platform exclusives.

Michael Kulakowski, 03 December 2018, 13:16

Valve changes publishing policy on Steam. After exceeding a certain level of revenue generated by the sale of the game and its DLC, the company will reduce its share.

luckie, 13 April 2017, 11:54

Soon, Microsoft will make it possible for players to return Windows 10 and Xbox One games purchased in Microsoft Store, as reported by an Xbox Insider participant.

luckie, 09 December 2016, 11:51

Digital store Games Republic is soon going to be closed. Despite some interesting ideas, the platform failed to turn profit for its owner - Polish 11 bit studios.

luckie, 08 November 2016, 13:43

Browsing through the Steam Store hasn't been overly convenient so far. Fortunately, the Discovery Update 2.0 has implemented a bunch of cool features that make the interface clearer.