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What does the Epic/Apple trial data show us about which game platforms are good to make games for? And how has Epic Games Store itself evolved?
[The GameDiscoverCo game discovery newsletter is written by 'how people find your game' expert and GameDiscoverCo founder Simon Carless, and is a regular look at how people discover and buy video games in the 2020s.] Listen here, we're back again, and we've got a column which features… oh no, the Epic/Apple lawsuit. Haven't you all heard enough about that already? Well, we agree that there's been a lot of coverage. But not many outlets have gone deeper into what GameDiscoverCo cares about. What does the data exposed by the discovery process of the trial -- the 1,000-foot view of which we an...
Fortnite Made Over $12 Billion Between 2018 And 2019 Share Image: Epic Games To sign up for our daily newsletter covering the latest news, features and reviews, head HERE. For a running feed of all our stories, follow us on Twitter HERE. Or you can bookmark the Kotaku Australia homepage to visit whenever you need a news fix. Today, the trial between Epic and Apple finally began after nearly nine months of legal filings and pre-trial hearings. During the court proceedings, new documents surfaced providing more data on how these companies operate. For example, we now know that Fortnite made $U...
Epic’s Borderlands 3 exclusivity deal cost $146 million Hearings in the big Epic versus Apple lawsuit are underway, and while it’ll be some time before we see what this means for the future of app stores and the traditional 30% cut that Epic aims to take down, the trial is making numerous bits of previously confidential information available to the public. Including, for example, the exact price paid to make Borderlands 3 a timed Epic Games Store exclusive. According to an internal Epic financial review from October 2019, Epic paid a total of $146 million USD to Borderlands 3 publisher 2K...
Way back when Epic released its Epic Store PC game storefront, the release of this new competitor to Steam focused on two major selling...