On October 26, Darkest Dungeon II was released in the Epic Games Store in early access. In just one day, the game sold over 100 thousand copies.

Last week, Tencent, NetEase and more than 200 Chinese gaming companies signed an agreement to combat gaming addiction. A number of experts believe that this could also hit foreign platforms. Among them are Steam, Epic Games Store and other stores that developers actively use to bypass the process of obtaining state licenses to sell their titles in China.The main attention in the signed agreement was paid to online games.

Epic Games Store is waiting for big changes. The store has opened accepting applications for participation in beta testing of the new functionality. We are talking about a set of tools for self-publishing games in the store.

In August 2019, Epic Games predicted losses from the first wave of exclusive games released in its store. Two years later, an internal document got online. It turned out that the company expected to lose about $130 million.Game expert Simon Carless drew attention to the document.

Epic Games continues to improve its store. The company has updated the Epic Games Store (EGS) development plan in the Trello Task Manager. Soon, player profiles, clickable tags and a few more features should appear on the platform.

The developers from InnerSloth told about the new achievement of their hit Among Us. During the week of the free distribution of the title in the Epic Games Store, the game was downloaded by 15 million people.

Sensational last year Among Us continues to attract millions of gamers. Against the background of the free distribution in the Epic Games Store (EGS), the PC version of the game began to be launched daily by two million people. This is almost six times more than usual.

The owners of the Epic Games Store planned to earn about $500 million if 80 of the best-selling Steam games appeared in their store. The company developed the plan in 2019. In it, Epic Games also explained that without these bestsellers, it would be problematic for her to get a large share of the PC market. However, we note that by the end of the year, the company had agreed only with the developers of…

Epic Games has revealed data on the distribution of games from December 2018 to October 2020. In the graph, the company showed how many newcomers came to the Epic Games Store after these promotions. The distribution of GTA V was the most profitable — over 7 million new users. In second place was Sid Meier’s Civilization VI — 2.5 million people.

By the spring of 2020, there were five sales in the Epic Games Store. The largest was during the winter holidays in 2019, when gamers left $21.8 million in the store. But a few months later, the most “unsuccessful” sale took place in the store — $ 5.7 million. Later, Epic Games held another sale, but it also collected several times less than the Christmas one — $ 9.9 million.

In 2019, immediately after the launch of the Epic Games Store, the owners of the store developed two scenarios for its development: aggressive and cautious. In an optimistic scenario, Epic Games hoped to get 50% of the PC market (but it depended on whether Steam would react to the company’s actions). In the pessimistic — to keep only 8% of the PC market.

On May 11, the head of Epic Games sent a letter to Yves Guillemot, the head of Ubisoft. He wrote that in the last 48 hours, 70% to 90% of fraudulent transactions in The Division 2 have passed through the Epic Games Store (EGS).

We continue to share details of the trial between Epic Games and Apple. During the hearing, Epic Games also disclosed financial figures for 2018-2019. Among them: the revenue of individual projects, the profit of the entire company and the number of staff in different directions.

For the first six months since the release of Borderlands 3, it was only available in the Epic Games Store. In case of failure of the game, it could cost Epic Games $ 115 million, but already in two premiere weeks, the loot shooter managed to earn the lion’s share of the amount.

Giveaways in the Epic Games Store are in great demand among gamers. However, only a small part of the audience buys games in the store after them. Epic Games estimated that in the first nine months of EGS operation (December 2018 – September 2019), such users brought her only $53 million – this is 33% of the total revenue of the store.

Yesterday, the trial of Epic Games and Apple began, during which the companies shared a lot of legal documents. One of them contains data on how much Epic paid developers for the first months of free giveaways of their games in the Epic Games Store.

Now you can download not only games, but also software from the Epic Games Store. The store even has a special section for them. There are only six programs available in it so far, but Epic Games promises that there will be more of them over time. One of their first programs of the section was itch.io — store of indie games without DRM.

The gaming startup Manticore Games has become one step closer to creating a full-fledged metaverse of games. The Core platform, which is considered a potential competitor to Roblox, has completed open testing and appeared in early access exclusively for the Epic Games Store.

Epic Games is losing hundreds of millions of dollars on its own store. Over the past two years, Epic Games Store losses have reached $454 million, and by the end of 2021, they may even amount to about $ 600 million. But Tim Sweeney is sure there is nothing wrong with that. He calls the losses “fantastic investments” and believes that such a strategy will prove itself well in the future.