Amazon Is Quietly Plotting to Take Over the Video Game Market

Steam may not be dominant for long

Eric Ravenscraft
OneZero
Published in
5 min readApr 15, 2020

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InIn 2018, Epic Games, the company behind cultural megahit Fortnite, launched a digital game store to compete with Steam, Valve’s overwhelmingly dominant platform. It was the first major challenge to Steam’s PC dominance in 15 years. But while Epic and Steam duel for control of a massive market, Amazon is…

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Eric Ravenscraft
OneZero

Eric Ravenscraft is a freelance writer from Atlanta covering tech, media, and geek culture for Medium, The New York Times, and more.