Starting three hours before the same day at 8am Pacific / 11am East / 4pm UK / (3am AEST on 12 February) and lasting until the same time on 25 February, Epic Games will also run its Spring Showcase Sale. The sale will include deals on a number of titles, such as Star Wars: Squadrons, SnowRunner, Cyberpunk 2077, Assassin’s Creed Valhalla and Hades. A preview of all the games that will be on sale during this period is available on the Epic Games Store now and appears to include more than 180 games, although it is not showing what the discounts on those titles will be.
Although Epic did not give any hints as to which new ads might be present in its stream on the 11th, it recently gave a statement to PC Gamer indicating that we should specifically expect to see many more exclusives from the Epic Games Store in the future.
“We have more exclusives coming in the next two years than we’ve published so far,” a company representative told PC Gamer, in response to a report that the bunch of showcase exclusives seemed to have calmed down lately.
Exclusives have also been a major revenue driver for the showcase in the past, so it wouldn’t be surprising to see some new ads in that regard on the showcase next week. It is also possible that we will see some glimpses of exclusives already announced for the store that have not yet been released – which may include games like The Wolf Between Us 2, Jett: The Far Shore, Darkest Dungeon 2, Kena: Bridge of Spirits, or the next Ubisoft titles (which are usually also released on the Ubisoft Store) or Remedy.
Rebekah Valentine is an IGN reporter. You can find her on Twitter @duckvalentine.