Epic Games reportedly paid US$10 million for 'Control' exclusive

Ever wondered how much it cost Epic Games to have exclusive access to Control on the PC? A new report has the numbers. And if it's accurate, the total amounts to €9.49 million (approx. US$10 million or around CA$13 million). The numbers were discovered in a recent financial report by Control's parent company 505 Games, Digital Bros. The story is in full Italian, but ComicBook claims it looks legitimate. 

Either way, it shows that Epic Games is willing to pay a handsome amount for exclusivity for its PC storefront. What isn't known is if it'll eventually show up on other stores. The possibility that this is sort of a timed-exclusivity agreement is there with the game may be showing up on other storefronts after the deal is over. The game is also available on the PlayStation 4 and Xbox One.

Epic Games Store offers 'Alan Wake' and 'For Honor' for free

For Honor (Ubisoft)

Who doesn't want free games? Until August 9th, the Epic Games Store is offering both Alan Wake and For Honor for free. You can pick up the standard edition of For Honor, which is a multiplayer combat game set in medieval times. Or you can get Alan Wake, which is a twisted psychological thriller involving an author who is trying to unravel mysteries of a missing week and to find his missing wife. Both games have violence in them. But For Honor gets rated M for "blood and gore, [and] intense violence. While Alan Wake gets rated T for "blood, language, use of alcohol and tobacco, [and] violence."

Next week only one game will be available for free on the store. It's the 3D puzzle game called Gnog. It'll be free starting August 8th.

Source: PCGamer

Ubisoft will be releasing ‘The Division 2’ exclusively on Epic Games Store

If you want to get your hands on The Division 2, you won’t find the game on Steam when it launches on March 15. Instead, Ubisoft struck a deal with Epic to release the game exclusively on its Games Store. In the meantime, all the other Ubisoft titles are still available on Valve’s Steam. But it looks like the developer wants to test the response on this new distribution platform. Epic has a more generous revenue sharing model versus Steam, with hopes of drawing more developers to launch on its platform. Valve’s current deal gives developers 70% of each sale and goes up from there, while Epic offers developers 88% from the start.

In a statement to Polygon, Ubisoft’s Chris Early said, “Epic continues to disrupt the videogame industry, and their third party digital distribution model is the latest example, and something Ubisoft wants to support.” Early said they planned to release more games on the latter’s store, but didn’t specify if these will be exclusive. That probably depends on how well the games do on the service. What Steam has going for it is its wider reach, but if developers keep flocking to Epic’s store, then that might eventually tip the dynamic.

Source: Slash Gear