Next week’s free Epic Games Store title has seemingly leaked ahead of an official announcement on Thursday.
08.03.2024 - 14:17 / videogameschronicle.com / Ea Sports / Tom Ivan
Details of the Epic Games Store’s Spring Sale have leaked ahead of its official announcement.
According to ever reliable dataminer billbil-kun, the promotion will kick off on March 14 and run for two weeks.
Games set to be discounted reportedly include EA Sports FC 24 for $13.99 / £11.99 / €13.99 (80% off), Skull and Bones for $44.99 / £37.49 / €44.99 (25% off), and Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown for $29.99 / £26.99 / €29.99 (40% off).
A wider selection of deals which look set to be included in the sale have been published on Dealabs.
Next week’s Epic Games Store giveaways were announced on Thursday. Deus Ex: Mankind Divided and logic puzzle game The Bridge will be free to claim from Epic’s PC marketplace from March 14-21.
They’ll replace Astro Duel 2, which was released yesterday for PC and Nintendo Switch, and is currently free to claim from the Epic Games Store until March 14.
The Epic Games Store had over 270 million customers in 2023, and 75 million monthly active users in December, according to Epic.
Players spent $950 million on the Epic Games Store last year, including $310 million on third-party PC games.
The Epic Games Store gave away 86 free titles in 2023 (down from 99 in 2022). These games had a combined worth of $2,055, and users claimed nearly 586 million free titles (down from 700 million in 2022).
Next week’s free Epic Games Store title has seemingly leaked ahead of an official announcement on Thursday.
Microsoft is embarking on an interesting multiplatform strategy these days, with its previously exclusive first-party titles like Hi-Fi Rush and Pentiment available on PS5 and Nintendo Switch. Microsoft Gaming CEO Phil Spencer has said that the industry shouldn’t rule out any title on other platforms, but he’s also interested in extending that philosophy to other storefronts.
Xbox boss Phil Spencer says he’d like to see other digital storefronts appearing on Xbox consoles in the future.
The second half of Invincible season 2 is airing weekly on Amazon Prime right now, and one of the new free games on the Epic Games Store perfectly complements it. Between now and March 28, you can get Invincible Presents: Atom Eve for free on the Epic Game Store.
Next week’s free Epic Games Store title has been confirmed.
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Dark And Darker might finally be easy to find and play soon following a year of legal battles between its developer Ironmace and Nexon. Accused of stealing assets from a scrapped Nexon project, Ironmace was forced to remove Dark And Darker from Steam last year. However, the fantasy adventure game now has its own Epic Store Games page and is listed on the site as "coming soon".
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Steam isn’t the only PC storefront that kicked off an annual spring sale. The Epic Games Store is offering exclusive discounts on a number of excellent titles through March 28, several of which aren’t available on Steam. Alan Wake 2, Prince of Persia: The Lost Crown, Ultros, and hundreds of other games are on sale, and we’ve highlighted some of our top picks below.
Next week’s free Epic Games Store titles have been revealed.
The latest free PC games are now available to redeem on the Epic Games Store, and at least one is an underrated classic. It’s Eidos Montreal’s Deus Ex: Mankind Divided, available until March 21st. You’ll need an Epic Games account to claim it and the Epic Games Launcher to play it, though.