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The Epic Games Store gave away nearly 586 million games in 2023, as 40 million new PC users joined the platform across the year
The Epic Games Store gave away more than 586 million games via its free games program in 2023, according to statistics revealed by the company as part of its year in review. The free games program featured 86 games that were freely downloadable for Epic Games Store users in 2023, amounting to a total redeemed […]
Read MoreSteam keeps on winning
Epic Games remains steadfast in its quest to drive down game store fees and build its “metaverse” vision, but the might of its Fortnite, Unreal Engine, and Epic Games Store operation wavered this year. Epic laid off over 800 employees in September, and pawned off beloved music marketplace Bandcamp after acquiring it only a year […]
Read MoreDrive like a maniac for fun and profit in the Epic Store’s next free game
After putting the Destiny 2 Legacy Collection up for grabs for a week, the Epic Games Store appears to have drifted back into a daily rhythm of free games. Today’s offering is Art of Rally, a stylized top-down racing game from the maker of Absolute Drift. Superficially, Art of Rally is an arcade racer, but […]
Read MoreMelvor Idle, the Runescape-inspired idle game with an ‘overwhelmingly positive’ rating, is free on the Epic Games Store
The next free game in the Epic Game Store’s Holiday Sale giveaway-a-thon is Melvore Idle, an “idle/incremental game” inspired by Runescape that blends casual click-here gameplay with a surprising level of complexity. Melvor Idle mimics Runescape’s skill system in many ways, and in fact it’s published by Jagex, which picked up the game in 2021. […]
Read MoreThe ESRB has started slapping blockchain games with Adults Only ratings, so Epic has changed its store policy to allow them
Unlike Steam, the Epic Games Store has a hard-and-fast rule against adult content. Its content guidelines state very clearly that “products with Adults Only ratings cannot be distributed on the Epic Games Store.” But it recently updated those guidelines to allow AO-rated games on the store for one specific reason: If they were given that […]
Read MoreDaily free games are back in Epic’s 2023 Holiday Sale, live now
The Epic Games Store has kicked off its 2023 Holiday Sale, and once again the daily free games are back—17 of them in all, beginning today with Destiny 2: Legacy Collection, a bundle of the Witch Queen, Beyond Light, and Shadowkeep expansions for Destiny 2. Destiny 2 is free as a normal thing, by the […]
Read MoreFree games are back in Epic’s 2023 Holiday Sale, live now
The Epic Games Store has kicked off its 2023 Holiday Sale, and once again the free games are back—17 of them in all, beginning today with Destiny 2: Legacy Collection, a bundle of the Witch Queen, Beyond Light, and Shadowkeep expansions for Destiny 2. Destiny 2 is free as a normal thing, by the way, […]
Read MoreThose reusable Epic Games Store coupons are back for Black Friday, and the discount is even bigger this time
Black Friday is upon us in full force, and that means pretty much every digital storefront you care to name is having a big sale. The Epic Games Store is no exception, and for Black Friday it’s once again brought back the Epic Coupon, which applies an automatic discount to every purchase you make. And […]
Read More5 years after trying for a ‘Valve-Counterstrike moment’ with Fortnite, the Epic Games Store still isn’t turning a profit
Epic’s quest to see half the tech industry in court has has put its executives in the witness stand again. This time, the case is the Epic vs Google trial and the executive is Steve Allison, the general manager of the Epic Games Store, who testified yesterday (via The Verge) that the PC storefront continues […]
Read MoreA recap of Epic Games vs. Google trial day one
The first day of the Epic Games vs. Google antitrust trial ended after both sides gave opening statements and two witnesses testified. One thing that is clear already is that we’re going to get a bunch of insights into how the game and tech industries work behind the scenes. Sean Hollister of the Verge has […]
Read MoreCozy MMO Palia is coming to the Epic Games Store
GamesBeat Next unites gaming industry leaders for exceptional content, networking, and deal-making opportunities. Join us on Oct 23-24 in San Francisco. Register Now Palia, Singularity 6’s beautiful, homey MMO, is joining a PC storefront for the first time as part of its open beta. More specifically, it’s launching on the Epic Games Store on October […]
Read MoreFor the first time ever, The Evil Within games are going free on The Epic Games Store
The Epic Games Store is bleeding money, but it’s also still bleeding free games, and a couple of good ones are on the line right now. This week you can pick up The Evil Within, the hit survival horror game headed up by original Resident Evil director Shinji Mikami, and next week it’ll be the […]
Read MoreEpic Games wants devs to bring their back catalogs to its store
GamesBeat Next unites gaming industry leaders for exceptional content, networking, and deal-making opportunities. Join us on Oct 23-24 in San Francisco. Register Now Epic Games announced this week that it’s launching two programs for its PC gaming store. The first is its First Run program, its initiative where developers can boost their revenue on games […]
Read MoreAfter saying ‘We’ve been spending way more money than we earn’, Epic turns on the money hose to lure game devs into releasing their golden oldies on the Epic Games Store
Epic has announced a foolproof plan to tempt devs and publishers to put their back catalogues onto the Epic Games Store: throw money at them. Announced yesterday, the Now On Epic program will offer game makers (and licence holders) 100% of the revenue generated by older games they put on Epic for the first six […]
Read MoreCD Projekt is putting your Cyberpunk 2077 mods on ice to make sure they don’t wreak havoc with Phantom Liberty
Fair warning, chooms, the release of Cyberpunk 2077’s Phantom Liberty DLC means that CD Projekt‘s deckheads have temporarily geeked your installed mods in order to prevent, uh, mushis. I can’t keep this up. Honestly, I’m just taking all these verbatim from a Cyberpunk slang wiki page. What am I even saying? In plainer terms, a […]
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