Fortnite maker Epic takes on Steam with its own PC games store

Epic has announced plans to take on Steam with a PC games store of its own.

The Epic Games Store features an eye-opening 88/12 per cent revenue split in favour of developers.

This is a much better deal for developers than currently available from Steam. Historically, Valve has taken around a 30 per cent cut of revenue made on Steam, a figure broadly in-line with Nintendo, Sony and Microsoft's cut from their own digital storefronts.

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