Epic Games Arrives on Steam
March 18, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Client, Corporate, Digital Distribution, Downloads, First Person Shooter, Press Releases, Release Dates, Steam
As we reported earlier, a curious user found a key which was related to EpicGames in Steam’s clientregistry.blob file, which hinted that Epic Games maybe coming to Valve’s reowned content delivery service. Now, It’s official. Epic Games has arrived on Steam. Press release below:
World-renowned developer Epic Games makes its debut on Steam today, delivering the award-winning Unreal and Unreal Tournament franchise to Steam gamers everywhere.
The Epic hits now available on Steam include the debut classic Unreal Gold, Unreal 2: The Awakening and the Unreal Tournament series: Unreal Tournament: Game of the Year Edition, Unreal Tournament 2004: Editor’s Choice Edition, and the recently released Unreal Tournament 3, which has shipped over a million copies to date. For the ultimate Unreal experience, nab the Unreal Deal Pack, an incredible value at just $59.95.
To celebrate the launch, all of Epic’s games on Steam are available for 10% off their regular price (offer ends March 24).
Epic Games Headed to Steam?
March 16, 2008 by Raj
Filed under Action, Adventure, Corporate, Digital Distribution, First Person Shooter, Miscellaneous, Steam
According to the official Steam forums, Epic games may be headed to steam to distribute their titles via Valve’s content delivery service. A curious user was fiddling with clientregistry.blob and found what appears to be a key related to Epic Games. Quote from the forum post:
in my opinion “EPG” is a shortcut for “Epic Games” and all the games included in the subscription has “system” current working directory ( which can be sings of UT engine )

