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The Game Awards: Spotify as Exclusive Audio

More than 83 million gamers, the Game Awards were able to run around the last year. This year, it may even be more with Spotify as a new partner. Spotify will also be transferred to Game Awards 2021 as the official and exclusive audio streaming partner on 9 December. There is also an exclusive playlist with Inside The Game Awards, which includes a four-part podcast with Geoff Kafka, the Creator, Executive Producer and Moderator of Game Awards. The first episode with is already available:

Epic Game Store seems to have lost a lot of money exclusively

Epic VS. The Apple's trial continued to give us interesting information. It seems like Epic Games lost about $ 130 million on the first 23 games they paid for exclusivity. The Epic Games Store is a little black sheep since its creation. Console users are used to exclusives, but it's not something that really existed on the PC ecosystem to the Epic Games Store. It is safe to say that PC players have been less than satisfied with the perspective. Really, it's just interesting to see how much they paid for exclusives and how much it cost them overall. It was clear that they would lose money on this strategy, at least in the short term, to capture some of the steam user base. We do not know if it worked well, but the idea certainly cost expensive. Epic Games spent about $ 210 million exclusively but does not plan to recover that about $ 80 million from this investment. This is what is not called awesome. It seems that only two games have really reported money, while others h...