SNK has announced that Samurai Shodown Collection is coming to the PC on June 11th, and will be free to own on Epic Games Store for a week. From June 11th to June 18th, PC gamers will be able to acquire for free this SNK Neo Geo collection.
As the title suggests, Samurai Shodown Collection features all the classic Samurai Shodown games that came out on Neo Geo. According to the company, it will contain six games and one mysterious, unreleased title. Furthermore, each game will have online modes, though there is no word on whether there will be cross-platform support.
Furthermore, SNK announced that the latest Samurai Shodown will release on the PC on June 11th. Samurai Shodown uses Unreal Engine 4 and will be exclusive on Epic Games Store. The game features warriors and combatants from various backgrounds and with their own goals are about to battle to fulfill their destinies.
In order to celebrate these announcements, SNK released the following trailers.
Enjoy!
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Imagine Epic giving out Red Dead Redemption 2, it gg for Steam lol
1 MOnth of Epic giveaways already kills anything Steam has done for gamers in all its existence
VR, Big Picture, Reviews, Forums, Events, Streaming, Sharing, Hardware, Workshop, etc.
Maybe finish your education before entering the web LOL.
Steam only got all of that over many years. I appreciate all of those features and think Steam has the best launcher and storefront at the moment but all of the babies that just say they are going to pirate games are idiots. Competition forces change and we have already seen that since Epic came into the picture.
Epic’s anti-consumer exclusive BS does not spawn competition.
Exclusivity, something Steam never went for, even after all these years.
How? They have the same refund policy and give tons of free games away. If anything they are the most consumer friendly. lol
I get that you don’t like exclusives but it is better for smaller developers whose games have never sold that great. Their last game didn’t do well on Steam.
Exclusives are the opposite of competition.
Competition would be if EGS had better prices for the same games or if their store had better features. Exclusives are trying to strong-arm the public by removing choice form the market, they pay the publisher to block the release of the game on a competing store precisely because they don’t want to actually compete with the other store.
Think of it as a race: competition would be running faster, but you’re not allowed to sabotage your competitors by messing with their equipment before the race or hitting them during the race, that’s considered anti-competitive behavior because that way you cease to measure the skill that the race was supposed to measure (running fast). In markets, competition is considered a positive because it gives people more varied choices; the more choices the consumer has, the more difficult they are to abuse by companies, because they can just go somewhere else for the product if they don’t like what the company is doing. By blocking game releases on a competing platform, Epic is being anti-competitive, they are removing choice from the public, because you are no longer allowed to choose a different store for that game, you are forced into the EGS even though not only that gives zero advantage to you as a consumer (the much touted revenue split only benefits publishers, not consumers, since it doesn’t translate to cheaper prices on EGS), but it’s even a disadvantage to you as a consumer, since the EGS has less features and a smaller community (this could be a major problem for multiplayer games especially).
Nice job rewriting the definition of competition to fit your own agenda. However you feel about it, you don’t dictate what competition means. If I can get ahold of something people want and I can sell it while my competition can’t, that’s competition. I mean, look at the language provided by the FTC:
“Exclusive contracts can benefit competition in the market by ensuring supply sources or sales outlets, reducing contracting costs, or creating dealer loyalty. As discussed in the Fact Sheets on Dealings in the Supply Chain, exclusive contracts between manufacturers and suppliers, or between manufacturers and dealers, are generally lawful because they improve competition among the brands of different manufacturers (interbrand competition).”
You may not like it, but it is competition. And it’s not anti-consumer at all. If anything, it’s intent should lead to a more pro-consumer digital game storefront world. Because that’s what competition does.
Nice projection there.
But since it’s not anti-consumer, can you name one advantage for the consumer of buying the game on EGS? I mean, if there was such an advantage, they wouldn’t need exclusives at all.
And exactly how the F does exclusivity “improve competition among the brands”? How does it ultimately benefit the public?
Do you know what projecting means? Because it doesn’t seem like you do.
Let’s stick with the first thing first, instead of starting a new question. Can you agree now that you are wrong about it not being competition? You may think it’s unfair competition, and you can have your opinion on that, but it’s still a form of competition.
Projecting means you’re accusing me of what you are doing yourself, or in this case, by proxy.
Now if the corporate wh*re you quoted has anything resembling a line of reasoning on exactly how the mechanics of exclusivity and “interbrand competition” benefit the public, please go ahead and post it, because I’m not the type to get impressed by acronyms alone.
“Unfair competition” sounds like an oxymoron, I’m afraid those pedals don’t work backwards buddy. If you come here trying to argue why the average consumer should be gobbling on Epic’s shlong for their exclusivity deals, you better come up with a very clear benefit those deals give to the average consumer, not to the publisher, but to the consumer.
Here’s the deal, you could potentially argue that Epic is competing for publishers, but not for consumers, because Epic is just counting on consumers being forced to use their store if they just want a particular game badly enough. So they offer a better revenue split than Steam does (in most cases) and they outright offer to “guarantee sales”, meaning that if a game falls short of sales expectation, Epic pays the difference. All this is “competing” to benefit publishers… at the expense of the consumer.
You see, you’re not a publisher or developer (unless you’re a shill, which to be fair, you probably are), so Epic is not “competing” for you and thus, their “competition” doesn’t benefit you as a consumer, so why the F should a consumer (not a publisher) have even the slightest love for Epic’s exclusivity deals? They offer precisely jack and sh*t for benefit to the consumer, it’s just corporate drones agreeing to f*ck you whether you like it or not, your interests as a consumer never even come into their consideration.
As a consumer, why would I care for developers. I don’t know any developers that live out of food banks. Do you? If all these developers are finding it too hard then perhaps they would be better off flipping burgers.
Now as a developer, I need my software to reach the maximum user base. Restricting myself to one store would not do that.
If anything they are the most consumer friendly
That’s only until they decide that the freebies are no longer helpful.
You clearly don’t understand how business works.
I’d argue differently as I started my own software company 30 years ago at the age of 21.
Congratulations. Year 11 for me. But how do you say such things that exclusivity doesn’t spawn competition? It might not every time, but it does other times.
When the iPhone released, no one else had anything like it so they had to make devices that were competitive, and they were similar in so many ways. Just a rough analogy.. not perfect, but it does work sometimes.
Epic Store is not competition at all…It didnt forced Steam to make any significant change.
Steam doesnt give a single f*ck about Epic Store existence.
Eh, watching the grass grow is more entertaining than RDR2…
LMAO
I’ts great to see Samurai Shodown again, and with rollback netcode. An if i recall correctly the newest game does not use it, such a disappointment.
Thank you Timm!1
You know the drill. Take the freebies. Pirate the exclusives. For everything else there is GOG and Steam.
Epic, make piracy great again.
@TechBlaz3, why don’t you start a thread stating why you support Epic’s exclusive BS rather than downvoting?
why dont you just simply not buy or support the exclusives, instead of doing what every console pleb acuses us of?
and hell if MUST pirate a game, don’t be proud of theft!
Steam 2,430. GOG ~300. I have no problem buying games. No problem at all as long as it’s my choice where I buy them and I have the freedom to review within that store.
I wouldn’t describe myself as being proud of pirating games, but at least I have the balls to stand up for consumer choice.
Now why don’t you start your own thread declaring why you do support anti-consumer behaviour?
Remember kids…”If a product is free then you are the product”
Love how they are gonna charge for it on Steam, but it’ll be free on EGS, as well as being released there nearly a week in advance.
Devs/pub must really want to screw around with whatever userbase they have on PC.
They are likely giving the collection away for free on Epic because the new game is releasing on there.
“Will be free to own on Epic Games Store for a week”.. https://uploads.disquscdn.com/images/34c0c7320f74ef369290ac303dfc3f06c4266261aa0cd3ae17e7b094ca7ef616.gif
$50 for a year old game, with $40+ of DLC, in a niche genre, on an even more niche platform. I’d like to see the sales figures.