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Microsoft follows Epic’s lead, lowers its cut of PC game sales to 12%

Enlarge / Developers of games like these will soon earn more money when they’re sold through the Microsoft Store. (credit: Microsoft) Microsoft is lowering the revenue cut it takes on games sold through its Microsoft Store on PCs from 30 percent to 12 percent, marking a new front in its uphill battle to take on […]

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Sony reverses course, keeps legacy PlayStation online stores open

The store has received a stay of execution on the PS3 and Vita… (credit: Playstation) Just three weeks ago, Sony announced its plans to shut down the digital stores for the PlayStation 3, PlayStation Portable, and PlayStation Vita, effective this summer. Today, Sony partially reversed course, with Sony Interactive Entertainment President and CEO Jim Ryan writing […]