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.

The Epic Games team decided to take up the improvement of social functions in their store. For example, now they want to add group chats to it. But personal messages will be removed for a while.

The Epic Games team talked about what 2020 was like for its digital store. The report contains detailed statistics with business indicators and a few plans for this year. Spoiler: Weekly game giveaways will continue in 2021.

Supergiant Games reported that their game Hades has surpassed the mark of 1 million copies sold. The project went out of early access just four days ago, and this short period accounted for 30% of all sales.Information about the achievement appeared on the company’s Twitter.

No sooner did Epic announce that soon the login to the Epic Games account via Apple ID will be unavailable, than everything changed. Apple is not going to block this option.Nevertheless, the creators of Fortnite are still asking players to be on their guard.

The confrontation between Epic and Apple is increasingly hurting users. Starting from September 11, players will not be able to log into Epic Games accounts using Apple. That’s what Apple decided.

Giveaways on the Epic Games Store continue to attract millions of players. This time, 10 million people took a free copy of Remnant: From the Ashes for a week of distributing the game in the store.

MAU Epic Games Store jumped to 61 million people. The online peak of 13 million users was also recorded. All this is thanks to the distribution of GTA V.

The GeForce Now cloud service started unsuccessfully. In the first month, Activision Blizzard and Bethesda left him. But now other major publishers are campaigning for the platform: Epic Games and Ubisoft.

Steam takes an unreasonably large share from sales, according to most developers. This is indicated by the results of the GDC survey.

The launch of the Epic Games Store led to a decline in sales on all PC platforms, including Steam. This was stated by NPD Group analyst Mat Piscatella.

Since its launch on December 6, 2018, $680 million has been spent in the Epic Game Store digital store. Of this amount, $251 million fell on third-party titles.

Epic Games and Google again did not agree on a fundamental issue. “Epics” want to release Fortnite on Google Play, but not give the store 30% of the revenue. The developer called this distribution of shares “illegal”.

Epic Games has changed the payment rules in its store. Now it will be easier for developers to charge for in-game purchases.

The Epic Games game store changed significantly yesterday. Visually and functionally, it has become more reminiscent of traditional stores.

Epic Games has started implementing a plan to launch its own Android store. The company has changed the name of the Android application with which Fortnite is installed.

Almost a year ago, the Satisfaction simulator became an exclusive Epic Games Store. Now the developers of Coffee Stain Studios have stated that since then they have felt great financial independence.

Bandai Namco explained why she is so not interested in the Epic Games Store. “We don’t share his vision,” said Herve Hoerdt, the company’s marketing vice president.

One of the first Epic Games Store exclusives will be available on Steam by the end of the year. This is a Hades bagel from the authors of Transistor.