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Epic lays out plan for its mobile store

Following years of legal back and forths with Apple and Google, Epic Games finally released its mobile app store earlier this year. So far, very little is available on the platform, however during the recent ‘Unreal Fest’ Tim Sweeny and co. offered a glimpse at what’s to come.

As part of a roundtable discussion during Epic’s Unreal Fest, Epic Games Store general manager Steve Allison offered an updated roadmap for the recently-released mobile store, saying (as transcribed by MobileGamer):

“In the holiday season we’ll open up with our first third party applications. We probably expect somewhere between 10 and 50 of them to be ready, and the biggest thing is just going to be implementing a payment solution, so that may push some of these out into the subsequent months.”

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Allison also revealed that Epic’s successful free-game program will also be finding its way onto the mobile storefront, adding “The free games program will launch in Q4 along with the third party apps showing up, and we’re gonna have some awesome stuff for players that will also be awesome for developers, because it’ll help us scale really quickly.”

Finally, Allison offered a little bit more on what else is in the works, confirming the likes of social and party features, in-game chat and more sometime “a little bit later in the year.”

As mentioned, Epic’s mobile game store is currently incredibly barebones – just as its PC store was at the start – and so it will be interesting to see how long it actually takes them to get it all properly up and running.

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