Epic will publish the next games from the devs behind Control, Limbo, and The Last Guardian

Epic Games already make an engine to build games and a store to sell the finished products, and now they’re getting into the publishing game to fund development too. Today they announced a “developer-first” multiplatform publishing scheme that will fully fund games but let the devs keep creative control and ownership of the intellectual property, which is fairly rare as publishers go. They’ll also promise the makers at least a 50% share of the profits. Epic announced a starting lineup of three partners: Remedy Entertainment, the creators of Control and Max Payne; GenDesign, the new studio from The Last Guardian director Fumito Ueda; and Playdead; the gang behind Inside and Limbo.

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