Discord’s game store is here to take a bite out of Steam

The popular gaming chat app wants to be the local bookstore to Steam’s Amazon. Discord hopes to claim a piece of the $29 billion digital PC game sales market by adding a store to its popular gaming chat app. The Discord Store Beta, which is launching today after a limited test run in Canada, mostly offers games from independent developers, though larger publisher THQ Nordic is on board as well. Subscribers to Discord’s Nitro service will also get free games along with their current chat-related perks. (That service is getting a somewhat-optional price hike from $5 per month to $10 per month.)Read Full Story Continue reading at 'Fast Company'

[ Fast Company | 2018-10-16 00:00:00 UTC ]
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