You may have heard the latest battle between Microsoft and Epic Games over the new Gears of War maps. Epic Games wanted to give the maps away for free but Microsoft had a problem with that. Well it appears that Epic and Microsoft had come to an agreement. Epic will release 4 new maps for an undisclosed amount but will eventually be free down the road. Epic and Microsoft has decided to take the same route that Bungie did with the map pack they released for Halo 2. Epic's Mark Rein took to the Evil Avatar forums and had this to say:
"Quite frankly Xbox Live Marketplace isn't our store. It's Microsoft's store. Like any retailer they have the right to figure out what goes on the shelves of their store and what price they sell it at. They spend the money to operate the store and deliver the content. They've also spent billions of dollars to create and build Xbox and subsidize it's the price so you can afford it and we can make games for it. As our publisher, they also invested tens of millions of dollars marketing Gears of War, and have done an awesome job for us, so they have a right to a good return on that investment."
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