After inventing indie games within the 12 months of our Molyneux 2010 with Super Meat Boy, Meat Boy and Bandage Girl will return with Super Meat Boy Forever in April 2019. That’s the information from Team Meat over the weekend, who additionally confirmed that the auto-running platformer sequel is yet one more game that can debut completely on the Epic Games Store, the brand new digital store from the oldsters behind Fortnite. A Steam launch is deliberate too, but it surely’ll come one 12 months later – identical as some other Epic scloosies.
Yup, that there Epic Games Store is the place the game will initially launch in April 2019. Super Meat Boy Forever had a Steam page lengthy earlier than Epic even introduced their retailer, however that’ll sit for a good whereas, as Team Meat say the Steam launch will comply with in April 2020. The Rebel Galaxy Outlaw crew have also said their game will hit Steam twelve months after Epic.
One of the Epic Game Store’s huge perks for builders in comparison with Steam is that it presents them an 88% reduce of gross sales, greater than Steam’s starting point of 70%. Epic making an attempt to compete with Steam is likely to be higher for us too, lighting a hearth beneath Valve’s arse.
The Rebel Galaxy gang have framed Epic exclusives as leverage to get Valve to offer all builders an enormous reduce, calling themselves “one of the canaries in the mineshaft”. Being one of many only a few games on the identical retailer shopper because the astonishingly fashionable Fortnite Battle Royale is an enormous perk for builders, however sufficient to offset misplaced Steam gross sales and overcome individuals’s reluctance to put in extra retailer purchasers?
The Team Meat identify is carried at this time by Tommy Refenes and his crew. Edmund McMillen, who was the opposite huge man in Team Meat, has since gone off to do his personal issues with different individuals: The Binding Of Isaac, Isaac’s Rebirth remake and lots of expansions, The End Is Night, and a Isaac physical card game, to not point out The Legend Of Bum-bo and maybe even Mew-genics developing.
Behold, a brand new trailer proven throughout the Kinda Funny Games Showcase yesterday:
