New Features in Epic Games Store - Library Sorting and Minor Fixes
Epic Games has published a note outlining recent changes to the Epic Games Store platform. The company has also announced what it will implement in the near future.
video games
Bart Swiatek
September 30, 2019
Frogwares at War With Focus Home - Sherlock Holmes Games Pulled From Sale
Focus Home Interactive does not intend to return the rights to sell the games from the Sherlock Holmes series to their creators, i.e. the team at Frogwares. As a result, all fruits of the cooperation between the two entities are being pulled from some digital stores.
video games
Christian Pieniazek
September 26, 2019
Valve vs. French Court - an Appeal is Underway
Valve does not agree with the decision of the Paris Supreme Court that Steam users residing in the European Union are fully entitled to resell the titles purchased through the platform. There's gonna be an appeal.
video games
Barth Faryna
September 23, 2019
Global Revenues From Digital Distribution; Pokemon GO With The Best Month Since Launch
The latest report of SuperData group brings information on global revenues generated by digital distribution in August, this year on all hardware platforms. The most successful mobile game was Pokemon GO, which had the most profitable month since its launch in 2016.
video games
Michael Kulakowski
September 22, 2019
Here's How Much Epic Paid for Control's Exclusivity
List of games that Epic Games Store has purchased for temporary exclusivity included Control. Today we found out how much this move cost Tim Sweeney's company.
video games
Agnes Adamus
September 20, 2019
Steam Labs - Interactive Advisor and New Recommendation Systems
Steam developers have announced further experiments that are being conducted under the Steam Labs programme. The entry published on the blog concerns an intelligent Steam advisor, as well as a new way of recommending games based on user reviews. There was also an interesting idea of an in-depth analysis system.
video games
Bart Swiatek
September 20, 2019
French Judge: Resale of Steam Games is Legal Under EU Law
According to the judgment of the French court, which invokes European Union directives, resale of games from Steam is perfectly legal. Valve has a month to change the rules and inform users about it.
video games
Paul Wozniak
September 19, 2019
Open Beta of New Steam Library Launches
The beta version of the new Steam Library, which we have heard about since March this year, is now available to all interested parties. Valve Software not only refreshed its appearance, but also added a number of new functionalities.
video games
Christian Pieniazek
September 17, 2019
Borderlands 3 Shows That Boxed Editions Are a Thing of the Past
Borderlands 3 had a very good start. The boxed edition of the game was the biggest sales hit of the year in Great Britain. Despite its success, the result achieved by the latest installment of the popular looter-shooter series is only half as good as in the case of its predecessor. The same applies to Gears 5.
video games
Agnes Adamus
September 16, 2019
Discord's Game Subscription Service Goes Offline
Almost a year ago Discord introduced a game subscription. Unfortunately, the catalog of Nitro Games was not to the liking of the players. Therefore, the company has decided to resign from the service and will switch it off in mid-October.
Tech
Konrad Serafinski
September 14, 2019
Beta Version of GOG Galaxy 2.0 With First Major Update
The closed beta version of GOG Galaxy 2.0 has been updated for the first time to bring its functionality closer to what the developers promised in their first announcements. Galaxy 2.0 allows you to create a universal database of our games on all modern hardware platforms.
Tech
Michael Kulakowski
September 13, 2019
Tool Enables You to Easily Import EGS Games to Steam
One of Steam's users created a useful tool that needs only one click to import games from most other launchers to Valve's client. This enables us to take advantage of many useful features such as Steam Overlay, home streaming and Big Picture mode. And we've got everything in one place.
video games
Bart Swiatek
September 6, 2019
New Beta of Steam Library Goes Live This Month
Valve is preparing to introduce a beta version of the changed appearance of the Steam Library. New features were presented at last week's conference in Seattle and users will be able to try them out later this month.
video games
Barth Faryna
September 5, 2019
Uplay Plus - Ubisoft's Answer to Xbox Game Pass Launches Today
Uplay Plus, answer to the competing Origin Access Premier or Xbox Game Pass, was launched on the market. The subscription fee includes access to the full range of games offered by Ubisoft.
video games
Adrian Werner
September 3, 2019
Epic Games Store Resignes From Notifying of Improvement Dates
Epic Games Store has decided to change the organization of the Trello board, where the players can find plans for platform development. From now on, instead of deadlines, we will find bookmarks concerning changes - introduced, forthcoming and future ones.
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Konrad Serafinski
August 31, 2019
Publisher of Metro Exodus is Pleased with Cooperation with Epic Games
CEO of Koch Media, the publisher of Metro Exodus, said he was extremely pleased with the partnership with Epic Games Store. He also does not exclude that in the future it will once again decide to sign an exclusivity agreement with Tim Sweeney's company.
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Agnes Adamus
August 30, 2019
Ubisoft on Epic Games Store Exclusives: Steam is „Unrealistic”
Chris Early from Ubisoft commented on his company publishing PC versions of games on Epic Games Store rather than Steam. This is the decision of the publisher, who has had enough of the „unrealistic” business model used by Valve.
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Jacob Blazewicz
August 28, 2019
Chinese Gamers to Disappear from Steam? Steam China Revealed
Perfect World, a company cooperating with Valve, shared the first details about the official Chinese version of the Steam platform. Soon the players from China will be „almost completely independent” from the rest of the world.
Tech
Christian Pieniazek
August 21, 2019
„You owe us $300,000,” Say Subnautica's Creators to G2A [Updated]
The dispute between developers and G2A is raging on and it does not look like anything is going to change in the near future. The tool proposed by the platform to block keys not intended for sale did not arouse much interest among the devs and caused further controversies.
video games
Conrad Hazi
August 14, 2019
Growth of Digital Games Distribution; Great Form of Rainbow Six Siege
The latest report of the SuperData group brings interesting info on digital distribution condition. It shows that Tom Clancy's Rainbow Six: Siege is still doing great despite being almost four years old and Crash Team Racing Nitro-Fueled had a great start.
video games
Christian Pieniazek
July 24, 2019