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It looks like Epic paid Digital Bros $10.5m for Control exclusivity News Sep 23rd, 2019

It looks like Epic paid Digital Bros $10.5m for Control exclusivity

Remedy's latest release is well on its way to making back its $22.2m-to-$33.3m production budget

Why Russia's My.Games has entered the store wars Interviews & Opinion Sep 20th, 2019

Why Russia's My.Games has entered the store wars

The company has been running Games.Mail.Ru in the region for years now, but can it compete with the likes of Steam and Epic?

Discord bullish about its platform after dropping free games from Nitro subscription service News Sep 17th, 2019

Discord bullish about its platform after dropping free games from Nitro subscription service

Company confirms that these changes don't affect developers selling titles direct to consumers

Ubisoft partnerships boss says Steam's business model is "unrealistic" News Aug 28th, 2019

Ubisoft partnerships boss says Steam's business model is "unrealistic"

“It doesn’t reflect where the world is today in terms of game distribution"

The Times They Are A-Changin': How Valve is trying to update Steam for the modern games industry Feature Aug 23rd, 2019

The Times They Are A-Changin': How Valve is trying to update Steam for the modern games industry

Designer Alden Kroll tells us more

Russia's My.Games is launching a brand new store News Aug 16th, 2019

Russia's My.Games is launching a brand new store

Set to launch in Q4 this year

Opinion: Care about game developers? Then stop getting angry about studios going exclusive with the Epic Games Store News Aug 7th, 2019

Opinion: Care about game developers? Then stop getting angry about studios going exclusive with the Epic Games Store

The Fortnite firm's platform might not be perfect, but it's letting creators achieve financial stability in an increasingly difficult market

How Discord attracted 250m users in four years Success Story Aug 7th, 2019

How Discord attracted 250m users in four years

CTO Stanislav Vishnevskiy tells us more

Here's why Discord ditched its storefront to let developers sell games directly News Aug 5th, 2019

Here's why Discord ditched its storefront to let developers sell games directly

"After seeing how people use Discord and listening to user feedback, we learned that commerce in official Discord servers is how people want to get their content on Discord"

Totally Normal People send "thousands" of pieces of hatemail to Ooblets dev Glumberland over Epic exclusivity deal News Aug 5th, 2019

Totally Normal People send "thousands" of pieces of hatemail to Ooblets dev Glumberland over Epic exclusivity deal

"We really misjudged how angry so many people would be"

TinyBuild boss Nichiporchik says delayed GOG updates aren't due to piracy concerns News Jul 8th, 2019

TinyBuild boss Nichiporchik says delayed GOG updates aren't due to piracy concerns

"I personally grew up in the pre-DRM era, and love having all my games and OSTs available anywhere, not requiring an online connection or a launcher"

Paradox's Wester says 70/30 revenue share status quo is "outrageous" News Jul 2nd, 2019

Paradox's Wester says 70/30 revenue share status quo is "outrageous"

Firm's executive chairman says that this business model is based in the 1970s VHS market

Epic boss Sweeney says exclusives might be unpopular with Steam users but rev share disruption plan is working News Jun 26th, 2019

Epic boss Sweeney says exclusives might be unpopular with Steam users but rev share disruption plan is working

CEO says that snapping up titles like this is vital to force competitors to give developers a bigger slice of the pice

Take-Two's Zelnick believes store revenue shares are going come down "very quickly" News Jun 6th, 2019

Take-Two's Zelnick believes store revenue shares are going come down "very quickly"

More platforms means a more competitive landscape

Q1 2019 revenue up 31 per cent for GOG, offsets slight decline from CD Projekt RED News May 24th, 2019

Q1 2019 revenue up 31 per cent for GOG, offsets slight decline from CD Projekt RED

Platform brought in $8.8m in first three months of the year

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