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Microsoft ups the ante against Valve by offering more money to PC game developers April 29, 2021 at 3:53 pm (Microsoft image) In a move to compete with Steam, Microsoft plans to increase the money it pays to developers who publish their games on the Microsoft Store. Starting on August 1, the Microsoft Store will give those developers 88% of the net revenue from their games’ sales, up from 70%. “Having a clear, no-strings-attached revenue share means developers can bring more games to more players and find greater commercial success from doing so,” Microsoft CVP Sarah Bond wrote on Linke...

The game is set about 60 years in the future. Previously, an army of robots (called Omnics in gamelore) fought a worldwide revolt against humanity before a group of skilled soldiers, scientists, adventurers, and oddities teamed up to help suppress the revolution. Afterwards, they stayed together and recruited more agents to become Overwatch, a global peace-keeping and scientific organization. Overwatch was eventually brought down by corruption from within and attacks by a shadowy terrorist cabal called Talon. But new challenges to world peace have arisen, and a new Overwatch has risen from th...

Why did Fortnite maker Epic Games need to raise $1.3b? Save Share We live in a time where a company selling fake clothes to real people in a fake world generates $US6 million per day. That company is Epic Games and the world in question lies within Fortnite, a global gaming phenomenon that allows 100 concurrent online players to hunt and kill one another in a cartoonish all-in “Battle Royale”. Last week Epic raised another $1.3 billion at a $37 billion valuation, up a massive 66 per cent in just nine months. Fortnite is free to play yet it reported revenue of $2.3 billion in 2019 f...

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Valve ceases development on its ‘Dota 2’ card game ‘Artifact,’ making it freeware March 4, 2021 at 3:54 pm Artifact, its 2018 digital card game. Artifact will remain online, but has been made free to play on Valve’s online storefront Steam. Artifact made its debut in November 2018 on Valve’s digital storefront Steam, made as a collaboration between Bellevue, Wash.-based Valve, and Richard Garfield, the creator of the landmark collectible card game Magic: The Gathering. Set in the universe of Valve’s international hit online game Dota 2, Artifact released to an initially enthu...