Epic Video games introduced right this moment that it has entered right into a long-term partnership with telecommunications service supplier Telefonica. Below the phrases of the partnership, the Epic Video games Retailer will now be extra accessible to the homeowners of Telefonica Android gadgets. The Retailer will even come pre-installed on suitable Android gadgets in Telefonica’s community, together with “Samsung gadgets in Spain, UK, Germany and Spanish-speaking Latam.”
This new partnership is an extension of Epic’s efforts to make its video games and retailer extra obtainable to customers on cell, bypassing platform homeowners’ shops and cost mechanisms. Epic has additionally not too long ago sued Google and Samsung for allegedly making it prohibitively troublesome for players to put in the EGS on their gadgets. Telefonica gadgets coming with the Epic Sport Retailer pre-installed would assist ease the set up course of.
Telefonica and Epic have collaborated previously, with the previous being the primary to introduce Direct Service Billing to the Epic Video games Retailer. Lorena Itziar Senador-Gómez Lázaro, Telefonica’s director of partnerships and gadgets, stated in an announcement, “With this collaboration with Epic Video games we strengthen our relationship and go one step additional in delivering high-quality, accessible and revolutionary digital experiences to our prospects.
Michael Modon, Epic’s senior director of progress partnerships, added, “Because of our partnership with Telefonica, gamers will now be capable to entry the Epic Video games Retailer, Fortnite and shortly video games from third get together builders immediately on their Android machine. We look ahead to increasing our collaboration with Telefonica to deliver much more advantages to gamers.”
