Epic Games may lose millions after struggling to recuperate costs from the Epic Games Store, following its fight to gain market share from Steam.
The Fortnite giant spent around $444 million in 2020 on making the storefront more lucrative to PC gamers, mainly through giving away titles for free and exclusivity deals.
The company dug deep to offer minimum guarantees to developers releasing games exclusive to the Epic Games Store. Under this arrangement, titles must remain exclusive to the PC storefront for one year, even if they re released on console platforms.
This means that the developer will receive a guaranteed advance from Epic whether or not their game sells enough to recoup the number. As an example, the company spent over $10 million securing PC exclusivity for Remedy s Control in 2019.
Epic reportedly set to lose at least $330m in efforts to compete with Steam
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Epic CEO Tim Sweeney Is Very Excited About The Epic Games Store Losing A Ton Of Money
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Shadow Man: Remastered releases on PC next week
Nightdive Studios has announced that they will be releasing the classic horror game
Shadow Man: Remastered on Steam, GOG and the Epic Games Store on 15th April. Originally released on PC, PlayStation, Nintendo 64, and Dreamcast back in 1999,
Shadow Man: Remastered takes players on a journey into the supernatural.
In the world of
Shadow Man: Remastered there is an evil that invades the world with its legion of darkness. For countless millennia they have invaded from the dreadful lands of Deadside only to be defeated by the Shadow Men, a line of powerful African warriors with supernatural abilities dedicated to defending their tribes. Now that proud lineage has fallen upon an unlikely hero, Michael LeRoi.