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...One thing to start: Disney is making a $1.5bn investment in Epic Games, the group behind Fortnite, in a move that is expected to be the Hollywood company’s largest move into gaming so far....
...According to S&P Global, in the first nine months of 2023 global private equity investments had an aggregate value of $365.3bn, a decline of 44 per cent year over year....
...The story of a scientist pursuing the truth behind the death of a Greenlandic Inuit boy in a Christianshavn housing block, it was an epic crime drama with notes of both the mystical and political....
...Epic Games will pay a total of $520mn in a pair of settlements with the US Federal Trade Commission over claims that the Fortnite developer illegally collected data on children and manipulated millions of...
...Defenders of KKR point to successful investments in media companies such as BMG and Epic Games....
...Damiano Michieletto’s take on Bizet’s four-act epic....
...In its Epic Games trial last year, Apple chief executive Tim Cook said the 15-30 per cent “in-app purchase” (IAP) charge was not merely a payment processing fee but a wider commission for Apple-made tools...
...Players of Fortnite, developed by Epic, were able to purchase an in-game currency known as “V-bucks” online, but these credits would not show up when playing on the iPhone....
...Talking of separation, Scottish first minister Nicola Sturgeon is expected on Tuesday to set out in detail how she plans to hold a second independence referendum....
...Epic Games has also taken its battle with Apple to South Korea, where the company has sought to have its hit game Fortnite restored to the App Store under a world-first law in the country that loosens app...
...In the US, Epic Games sued the company last year for allegedly operating an illegal monopoly, but the games developer lost on nine of 10 counts....
...The trial between Epic Games and Apple is set to kick off today, and the controversial Dakota Access Pipeline is back in federal court....
...On April 10, 2019 it was reopened by the charity Girls Inc as a house for troubled women too old for foster care but young enough still to need a supportive home....
...A ring of LEDs shaped like LV’s signature flowers lights up in a kaleidoscope of shades in time to the music, and a further circle of lights flashes “L-O-U-I-S-V-U-I-T-T-O-N.”...
...But the balding former bond trader was not there to watch a game of baseball....
...Unity and Epic both offer “game engines” — software tool kits used by other developers that can provide shortcuts when programming a new game and make graphics look more realistic....
...“This is not going to be a V-shaped recovery from here given the many months [or] years it will take for full repair, but it feels good now.”...
...Houseparty, owned by Epic Games, tops the Apple app store list in the UK. In the US, teleconferencing company Zoom Video Communications leads on Google Play....
...Epic Games said in March that Fortnite had 250m registered users....
...See Game of Thrones’ Jason Momoa stars in a dystopian drama set 600 years in the future, after a virus has decimated humankind and left all survivors unable to see....
...AT&T shares ended 0.6 per cent lower on Monday versus a 0.1 per cent decline for the broader S&P 500....
...Epic Games, creator of Fortnite, said in November the free-to-play “battle royale” game had more than 200m players with registered accounts....
...A spokesperson for Epic Games said the group had paused all of its YouTube advertising....
...He wants the prosecution of those responsible for London’s 2017 Grenfell Tower fire — “a crime of epic proportions”. His anger has been aimed at his own side too....
...“Gaming is far more than just a game — it is a new media format,” says Bruce Stein, chief executive of aXiomatic, an investor in Fortnite’s developer, Epic Games, and Niantic, the creator of Pokémon Go....
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