Nearly 330 developers are working on the next mainline The Witcher game, which is codenamed Polaris, CD Projekt has confirmed.
09.11.2023 - 17:03 / videogameschronicle.com / Steve Allison
The Epic Games Store’s next free titles have been announced.
Post-apocalyptic city-building game Surviving the Aftermath, and Earthlock, an adventure RPG inspired by the classic 3D RPGs of the late 1990s, will be free to claim on Epic’s PC marketplace from November 16-23.
They will replace Golden Light, “a procedural dark comedy horror game with roguelike elements and an eerie atmosphere”, which is now free to claim until November 16.
The Epic Games Store has yet to turn a profit since launching in December 2018 as a rival to Valve’s dominant Steam platform.
The store’s general manager Steve Allison said so on the stand on Monday, during the opening day of the Fortnite maker’s antitrust court battle with Google.
In a bid to take market share, Epic has offered game makers a more generous revenue split than Steam, with 88% of sales going to developers.
Epic has also spent heavily to secure major third-party timed exclusive releases, and has invested millions on its weekly free game giveaways.
In August it announced a new Epic Games Store exclusivity scheme. The Epic First Run programme allows developers of any size to claim 100% of revenue if they agree to make their game exclusive on the Epic Games Store for six months.
Another Epic Games Store scheme which sees developers getting a 100% revenue share for the first six months by bringing their older titles to the marketplace was revealed last month.
In September, Epic announced plans to lay off around 830 employees, or 16% of its total workforce.
Nearly 330 developers are working on the next mainline The Witcher game, which is codenamed Polaris, CD Projekt has confirmed.
2023 has been a busy year where new game releases are concerned, and the last few months have been doubly so, which means you may not have found the time to play all the games that you may have wanted to. If Alan Wake 2 was among them, the acclaimed survival horror title is currently being sold at a discounted rate on PC.
The next batch of free Epic Games Store titles has been revealed and it includes the sci-fi adventure game Deliver Us Mars.
With the holiday season now in full swing, there's a pretty nice freebie available on the Epic Games Store: Deliver Us Mars. The sci-fi adventure game is a direct sequel to 2018's Deliver Us the Moon, taking place around ten years after the events that unfolded in the original game. Humans are closer than ever to extinction on Earth, and only a daring mission to the Red Planet to recover the ARK colony ships can change the fate of humankind.
The Epic Games Store has revealed its newest free game for the week – Frontier Foundry’s Deliver Us Mars. Launched earlier this year, it’s redeemable by Epic Games users until November 30th, 8 AM PST. However, you need to download the Epic Games Launcher to play it.
The Epic Games Store’s next free titles have been revealed.
The Epic Games Store’s next free title has been confirmed.
Although the popular spinoff franchise, , has had a fair number of games that are divisive among its fans, the remakes of and may paint a promising picture for those who prefer the series' classic style. Since, games have tended to stray from traditional RPG gameplay and story elements, beginning with the more platformer-like — and while the games haven't always had a completely negative reception, they have also left many longtime fans of the series wanting an experience more similar to the first few games.
If you’re looking for some fresh titles on Game Pass to occupy your time during Thanksgiving break, Xbox has you covered. The console maker announced a new batch of games coming to its subscription service throughout the rest of November.
Almost five years since it launched - and two years after Epic revealed they hoped to gobble up half of all PC gaming revenue - the Epic Games Store is still yet to turn a profit.
The still isn’t profitable nearly five years after the platform launched. The storefront’s General Manager, Steve Allison, revealed as much when called to testify in Epic’s ongoing legal battle with Google.
As part of an ongoing trial, an executive has revealed that the Epic Games Store still isn't profitable, and after years of roasting the Steam competitor the PC gaming community has some theories about why that might be.