Epic Games will soon launch its own Epic Games Store, a virtual game repository that could challenge Valve’s Steam and EA’s Origin. Here are the details.
Epic Games, the maker of popular game titles like Unreal Tournament, Gears of War, Fortnite, and several others, announced it would soon launch its own online game store. Developers can join the online game marketplace to sell their virtual merchandise. To ensure the Epic Games’ virtual store attracts developers, the company is offering quite a lucrative revenue sharing deal.
Epic Games will soon launch its very own curated online game store. It is not immediately clear, but most of the popular game titles that the company has developed, could be available to gamers. More importantly, the virtual game repository will have games that other developers and companies make. The arrangement is quite similar to Valve’s Steam and EA’s Origin. However, the Epic Games Store will reportedly have a substantially more attractive earning potential for the developers.
Epic Games confirmed the Epic Games Store will initially launch on PC and Mac. In other words, the company will initially focus on several games that presumably require a powerful gaming PC or Mac. It is not clear if Epic Games could offer cloud-based gaming support. However, the company categorically mentioned the online games store will eventually be available for Android and other ‘open platforms’.
