Oct. 3 (Portaltic/EP) –
The general director of the Epic Games Store, Steve Allison, has announced that they plan to increase the library of their mobile application store with up to 50 third-party games that will arrive during the fourth quarter of this year 2024.
The video game company launched Epic Games Store for iOS and Android devices in the European Union in August of this year, and a month later for iPad. This launch was carried out after years of litigation with Apple technology and Google caused by discrepancies in payment systems that led to the withdrawal of Epic titles from the App Store and Play Store.
Now, within the framework of Unreal Fest Seattle 2024the CEO of the app store, Steve Allisonhas shared its plans to expand the catalog of video games for free on the Epic Games Store.
Specifically, as Allison detailed in a round table with different media outlets that she attended mobilegamer.biz, In order to continue promoting its application store, the company will add up to 50 third-party titles during the fourth quarter of this year.
He has also announced that one of the first third-party titles to come to the Epic Games Store will be Ark: Ultimate Mobile Editionwhile the rest of the video games will do so at end of 2024, “during the Christmas season.” Along with these games, a payment system will be implemented.
On the other hand, Allison has also indicated that they intend to facilitate the game publishing process. In this sense, he has indicated that the application store will offer “self-publishing tools” for developerswhich will allow them Publish your titles without needing to interact with Epic.
“Developers can enter without any interaction with us, as they currently do on PC,” said the manager, while noting that these tools will be ready “probably in the first half of the year, hopefully as close to January as possible.”
The event also included the participation of Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney who shared the company’s goal of continue fighting against the technology giants Google and Apple to open their platforms “until there is a definitive victory”, as shared by the media cited above.
“We are at a point where developing games is expensive. Margins are low and game companies are suffering. Apple and Google make more profits from most games than the developers themselveswithout contributing anything in return. This has to change,” Sweeney said.
In addition to all this, during Unreal Fest the company also announced a publishing program called ‘Release everywhere with Epic’, which aims to encourage developers to create games with the Unreal Engine and publish them on the Epic Games Store, for which a reduction in the royalty rate.
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