Epic confirmed immediately that they plan to maintain on freely giving a full game without cost each week on the Epic Games Store all through 2020. Previously they’d solely confirmed freebies via to the top of 2019, a 12 months they ended with a blowout of daily freebies, although they did quietly stored going when this 12 months began. Epic say over 200 million free games have been claimed up to now. I’ve largely been utilizing this to heap but extra games onto my backlog however Epic have mentioned they pay builders for the freebies so hey, I’m glad if my idle stockpiling will get devs paid.
“To kick things off, we’re extending our weekly free game program throughout 2020,” Epic mentioned in today’s blogblast. “Every single week, come back to claim your game.” Alrighty then. I shall.
The current free game is Sundered, a hand-drawn metroidvania from the makers of Jotun. From Thursday, the freebie will likely be Horace, a platformer wholly unrelated to the infinite bear coiled round our toes within the RPS treehouse.
Epic additionally used this chance to stick a complete load of huge numbers right into a JPEG in the clumsy modern art form known as the “infographic”. Most of the numbers are pointless (do you know that they’ve 644okay Facebook followers? you do now) however there may be some attention-grabbing stuff.
They say that PC gamers have spent $680 million (£523 million) within the Epic Games Store up to now and of that $215 million (£165m) was on third-party games. Which means, what, $465 million (£358m) or so on Fortnite bits on PC? Damn. I additionally discovered it attention-grabbing that Creator Codes (an affiliate scheme for #influencers and #contentcreators) have been used on 1,733,180 third-party Store purchases, simply to get a way of the dimensions of loyalty and curiosity.
If you take pleasure in theorycrafting and writing fanfic about digital game shops, you may additionally take pleasure in a number of the regional breakdowns and issues on the graf. Mate I’m simply right here for the free games.
