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Epic announced today that a slate of new non-gaming applications are now obtainable on the Epic Games Retail store. The most fascinating new application included is the indie game titles storefront Itch.io, most likely giving the countless numbers of scaled-down games on their retail store a substantial new viewers of EGS buyers.

The Itch.io shop currently being included to EGS is odd, but it could be a enormous boon for indie devs who typically struggle to get their online games in entrance of larger audiences. While Itch.io has presently had a different, downloadable desktop application in advance of, it will now be obtainable via a storefront that has in excess of 160 million users as of January 2021. If even a compact portion of them obtain the Itch.io app, that could suggest hundreds of thousands of new buyers for Itch.io and its devs. However, you will even now will need a separate Itch.io account to get and enjoy games. But it is worthy of it considering all the great and completely free of charge game titles that are on the support.

5 other non-gaming applications were additional to the Epic Online games Store nowadays.

Courageous – A totally free, open up-source web browser which permits individuals to send out “Basic Notice Tokens” to web sites by using cryptocurrency blockchains, which sounds awful.

KenShape – A simple but great piece of program that allows you transform very simple 2D-pixel artwork drawings into blocky 3D products that can then be exported into numerous sport engines.

Krita – This painting and drawing application has been all around for a even though now and is by now preferred. Now it is on the Epic Video games Retailer.

iHeartRadio – A podcast and net radio services that lets men and women hear to hundreds of radio stations from around the nation or a huge listing of podcasts.

This is not the first time Epic has extra non-gaming material to its keep. Again in December 2020, Epic added Spotify to its well-liked storefront, a signal that the Fortnite dev was searching to develop the keep past games. Today’s news confirms that Epic has a lot more designs to construct up the Epic Online games Keep.

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