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...The European Commission, the EU’s executive arm, announced on Thursday it had “requested further explanations” from Apple over its decision to terminate the developer account of Epic Games....
...Apple announced on Friday that it has granted Epic Games access to its App Store, under pressure from the European Commission which was probing the iPhone-maker over its decision to block the game developer...
...Epic deliberately bypassed Apple’s in-app payment mechanism for its popular Fortnite game in protest at a 30 per cent fee the company charged on digital purchases....
...On Monday, a California jury sided with the video game maker Epic Games in its dispute with Google....
...The US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals in April affirmed a 2021 decision favouring the iPhone maker after Epic Games alleged Apple’s App Store was an illegal monopoly....
...Sweeney, a video games programmer, founded Epic in 1991. The company, which makes the popular game Fortnite, is now valued at more than $30bn....
...The man who keeps telling them is Tim Sweeney, chief executive of Epic Games, the developer behind the game Fortnite....
...A federal jury on Monday found against Google in a lawsuit brought by Epic, the company behind popular video game Fortnite, which accused the search giant of suppressing competition in the Android app market...
...Epic Games’ legal fight is unlikely to change that. The value of the mobile app market is estimated at more than $100bn....
...Epic Games, the maker of the popular Fortnite game, has argued in its lawsuit that Google has set up a thicket of contractual and technical restrictions around its Android operating system that in effect...
...sunny Hawaii, a land of blue sea, golden sand and extreme income inequality, means that the latest entry in the series, Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth, is easily the most contradictory yet, a gangland epic...
...It points out that Epic itself takes advantage of these arrangements, using Samsung’s Galaxy app store to distribute its games, and allows direct download of Fortnite, its most popular game....
...A US federal jury on Monday found against Google in a lawsuit brought by Epic, the company behind popular video game Fortnite....
...*This story has been amended to correct a reference to games made by Epic...
...It caps off a year of accolades for the epic, which also secured game of the year at The Game Awards, DICE Awards and Golden Joystick Awards....
...The handheld console made by Panic Inc — publisher of Firewatch and Untitled Goose Game — has sold more than 70,000 units since it launched in 2022....
...Epic Games sued the company over its App Store policies in 2020, claiming the company imposes an unfair 30 per cent “tax” on certain transactions — a case that Epic largely lost....
...The legislation, which was supported by a coalition of app developers including Tinder owner Match Group, Spotify and Epic Games, was the first of its kind in the world....
...Many Parisians intend to flee the city during the games, which start on July 26, as an expected 15mn people visit the capital, according to tourism officials....
...Disney made a $1.5bn investment in Fortnite’s creator Epic Games this month to create what the studio’s chief Bob Iger called “a huge Disney universe that will be for gaming and for play”, while Netflix...
...Late last year, it lost an antitrust case brought by Epic Games against its Android app store....
...Picking up the baton from the Oscars-festooned Christopher Nolan and his three-hour epic Oppenheimer is filmmaker Brian Knappenberger....
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