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While Homeworld 3 still looks to be some way off, a separate series project - with the work-in-progress title Homeworld Mobile - is seemingly much closer to fruition. This attempt to bring Homeworld's space-faring RTS action to mobile devices is being handled by developer Stratosphere, and will be out next year. There's the tiniest glimpse in the teaser below.
According to Gearbox, Homeworld 3 backers on Fig will be "guaranteed priority access" to Homeworld Mobile when it eventually arrives.

Quoted from the original Metro interview:

GC: You joked about it in the demo, but would you really consider becoming an Epic Games Store exclusive?

JS: [laughs] Everybody’s been in touch. I mean, all of a sudden, in the last 18 months, we’ve had Stadia, we’ve had Epic Games, we’ve had the new console generation announced… there are so many options. That’s why we’re trying to simplify and say, ‘Look, right now we’re going to make a really good PC game’.

GC: Would you consider not doing it purely so as to not upset fans?

JS: Frankly, if somebody comes in and says, ‘Hey, do you want $25 million and we’ll make you an exclusive?’ We’re going to go [makes the face anyone would make if offered $25 million].

GC: I’m not sure it’d be quite that much. [laughs]

JS: [laughs] Right! But we are a for-profit organisation and you have to assume the consequences of that. But right now we’ve had a great relationship with Steam for eight years. There’s a lot of other options out there… of course we’re talking to them. Of course you have marketing visits from people.
But I don’t even know, marketing doesn’t, she’s PR [points to PR woman] and she doesn’t know… We’re talking to everybody, but I would hate to ruin our relationship with Steam or make the community angry.

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Another interesting tidbit of information that's been hinted at for some time is that all new Xbox titles will come to GamePass on PC. Greenberg said while speaking to GameStar about digital games distribution and subscription models like GamePass:

We're going to bring all of our titles when they launch into GamePass on PC, included in the service. We've got a lot of great third-party support as well, and we know a lot of people both play on the PC and on console.

That's great, so we have options for them but even just as a dedicated PC gamer, we're working with a lot of the big PC publishers to bring their titles and them reach a broader audience as well ... so the key there is to overdeliver on value but consumers obviously still have choice if they want to subscribe or buy.

Suffice it to say, that's a pretty clear indication that Age of Empires 4 will be included in GamePass at launch, whenever that may be. As of this writing, there is still no release window for the game. However, that may very well change at XO19 in a little less than three months.

loyaltomyself
"Pitchford replied 'Internet is fine. All they care about is if my next video game is good or not."

That reminds me of the time Activision was wrapped up in a legal battle with Infinity Ward over allegations of not paying the team the money they were owed, and their PR team dropped this little gem: "Any game with the Call of Duty title will instantly sell 3 million copies regardless if it's good or not. Nobody knew who Infinity Ward was before we came along and made them relevant".

MrJinxyface
Tim and Epic left PC about 15+ years ago, denouncing us as all pirates, and saying consoles make more money so PC isn't a viable platform for gaming and would die off. They didn't want to do the work.

Valve wanted to do the work, and over the last 15 years has molded PC gaming into what it is, and arguably made it the most valuable ecosystem.

Now Tim is a salty piece of shit, and is trying to crawl back and demand he deserves a piece of the pie. But instead of doing work this time, he's just trying to mudsling and gaslight and PR his way into getting people to think Steam is somehow bad and what he's doing is for the "benefit" of us.

Epic Games co-founder Tim Sweeney thinks consoles are beating PCs, and the PC gaming industry has no one to blame but themselves.

MrBubbaJ
I think to a certain extent this is a make or break moment for EGS. If Borderlands doesn't push a large number of people to, not only purchase the game, but to keep making purchases going forward on the storefront I don't think anything will.

I doubt Epic will make a profit on the game. In 6 months it may sell 3 or 4 million copies on EGS. Borderlands 2 sold 8.5 million after a year and a half, but that included console sales and I am sure 1 or 2 Steam sales, so 4 million is probably extremely generous. But, if they did manage to sell that many, Epics cut would be just under $29 million. Tim Sweeney has said that about 58% of that would go towards direct costs (e.g., server costs, direct labor costs). That would leave them about $12 million. I'm sure Take 2 wanted more than just guaranteed sales to go Epic exclusive as sales are pretty much guaranteed for the game. I wouldn't be surprised if, at least, that whole $12 million is going right back to Take 2. I also wouldn't be surprised if Epic waived all of their fees.

Now, I don't think EGS will be gone on September 14 if they don't hit their sales goal. It will probably be around a couple of years from now regardless of how poorly it performs. But, over the next couple of months Tim Sweeney will probably be looking at the numbers. If people he sees that people came to his store, purchsed Borderlands 3, and then went back to Steam or GOG, he may decide to just go into maintenance mode with the store and not sink large amounts of money into the store any more.