Epic Games Pursues Publishing in New Partnership With Three Acclaimed Developers

Epic Games has announced that it’s going to be pursuing publishing with a “developer-first approach”. This publishing effort has resulted in a strong start, with Epic partnering with three renowned and respected development studios: genDESIGN (The Last Guardian); Playdead (Limbo, Inside); and Remedy Entertainment (Max Payne, Alan Wake, Quantum Break, Control).

It seems that Epic Games will thankfully be lenient in regards to the platforms where these games will be released, reinforcing the developer-first mindset in these three bullet points:

• Full creative freedom and ownership. Developers retain 100% of all intellectual property and full creative control of their work.

• Fully-funded projects. Epic Games Publishing will cover up to 100% of development costs, from developer salaries to go-to-market expenses such as QA, localization, marketing, and all publishing costs.

• 50/50 profit sharing. Developers earn a fair share for their work -- once costs are recouped, developers earn at least 50% of all profits.

Remedy has been the most upfront of three developers in regards to what its partnership with Epic will entail, stating on the developers website:

“Remedy is working on two multi-platform games for next-generation consoles and PC that will be published by Epic Games. The first project is Remedy’s most ambitious one yet, an AAA multi-platform game already in pre-production. The second is a new, smaller-scale project set in the same franchise. Both games are being developed on Remedy’s proprietary, state-of-the-art Northlight game engine and tools.”

Playdead and genDESIGN haven’t made any statements regarding their release plans with Epic yet, but hopefully they’ll reveal more in the near future.