{"id":90733,"date":"2019-03-26T20:42:00","date_gmt":"2019-03-26T20:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/339439"},"modified":"2019-03-26T20:42:00","modified_gmt":"2019-03-26T20:42:00","slug":"observation-will-be-an-epic-games-store-exclusive-steam-page-pulled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2019\/03\/26\/observation-will-be-an-epic-games-store-exclusive-steam-page-pulled\/","title":{"rendered":"Observation will be an Epic Games Store exclusive, Steam page pulled"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>No Code&#8217;s upcoming game&nbsp;<em>Observation<\/em>&nbsp;will be released on PC and PS4 on May 21st, but with a slight change in plans.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The game previously had a Steam store page, implying it would release on that platform (or other PC marketplaces) before <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/devolverdigital\/status\/1110536647798652928\">Devolver&nbsp;confirmed earlier today<\/a> that the game will be exclusive to the Epic Games Store for one year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>This exclusivity deal <a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/338026\/Shakedown_Hawaii_coming_first_to_the_Epic_Games_Store.php\">comes shortly<\/a> after&nbsp;Epic ramped up&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/332619\/Epic_Store_influences_developers_to_pull_Steam_releases.php\">its efforts to&nbsp;compete with Steam<\/a>&nbsp;and other storefronts&nbsp;by convincing&nbsp;developers to publish first on the Epic Games Store.<\/p>\n<p>Studios like Remedy Entertainment&nbsp;(<em>Control<\/em>) and Heart Machine (<em>Solar Ash<\/em>) are among the studios already&nbsp;committed to launching their upcoming PC games as Epic Games Store exclusives, at least initially.<\/p>\n<p>As of right now, it&#8217;s unclear whether <em>Observation<\/em> will launch on other PC storefronts or other consoles after one year.&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>No Code&#8217;s upcoming game&nbsp;Observation&nbsp;will be released on PC and PS4 on May 21st, but with a slight change in plans.&nbsp; The game previously had a Steam store page, implying it would release on that platform (or other PC marketplaces) before Devolver&nbsp;confirmed earlier today that the game will be exclusive to the Epic Games Store for [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":90734,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-90733","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90733","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=90733"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/90733\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/90734"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=90733"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=90733"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=90733"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}