When we think of Steam sales, both developers and publishers must take Valve's 30% revenue share into account. As it turns out, though, in fact, Gabe Newell's company gets, on average, only as much as 20% of a sold game copy's price.
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Christian Pieniazek
April 5, 2019
Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Games, admitted that no previous developer announcements about e.g. Steam will prevent his company from acquiring new exclusive titles. Sweeney's words contradict the earlier assurances that the Metro Exodus affair was the las
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Konrad Serafinski
April 4, 2019
Sony published new rules of a new, precise refund policy for PlayStation Store. The changes relate mainly to games, pre-orders, expansions and subscriptions. There is, however, a certain catch to all this.
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Konrad Serafinski
April 2, 2019
Ubisoft decided to pull the original version of Assassin’s Creed III from Steam and Uplay. From now on, the game will only be available in its remastered version, which costs more and has higher hardware requirements.
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Bart Swiatek
April 1, 2019
David Stelzer and Sergey Galyonkin took part in a Q&A session organized by GamesIndustry.biz during PAX East 2019 and answered some questions related to Epic Games Store. As you may expect, the main topic was exclusive titles.
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March 30, 2019
Witch Games has announced that Epic Games has rejected the request to add Assault Android Cactus, an acclaimed independent title, to the Epic Games Store.
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Jacob Blazewicz
March 29, 2019
In a recent interview for Ars Technica, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney shared his thoughts on the PC video game market. He believes that Epic Games Store may help reduce prices.
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Bart Swiatek
March 26, 2019
Bethesda Softworks informed that the PC edition of RAGE 2 and Doom Eternal will be available on Steam. The same goes for the upcoming spin-offs to the Wolfenstein series, followed by Fallout 76.
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Jacob Blazewicz
March 25, 2019
The developers of Vampire: The Masquerade - Bloodlines 2 have promised that the PC version of the game will not be available exclusively on any single digital distribution platform.
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Adrian Werner
March 25, 2019
Chris Avellone – the co-founder of Obsidian Entertainment, currently a renowned independent developer – has taken a stance on the deal signed by his former employer with Epic Games Store. He believes that the decision is nothing more than a cash grab.
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Bart Swiatek
March 25, 2019
Epic Games studio CEO revealed the costs of digital distribution. His calculations show that a 12% margin is enough to make big money, and the industry standard 30% is exaggerated.
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Adrian Werner
March 23, 2019
Epic Games addressed the controversies surrounding the company's activities in the last weeks.
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Jacob Blazewicz
March 22, 2019
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.
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Christian Pieniazek
March 22, 2019
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.
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March 22, 2019
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.
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Milosz Szubert
March 21, 2019
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.
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Jakub Mirowski
March 17, 2019
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.
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Adrian Werner
March 15, 2019
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
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Jacob Blazewicz
March 8, 2019
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.
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Agnes Adamus
March 7, 2019
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.
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Milosz Szubert
March 6, 2019