Hints and tips:
...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....
...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....
...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...
...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....
...According to court documents in the company’s 2021 trial against Fortnite-maker Epic Games, Craig Federighi, Apple’s head of software engineering, advocated keeping iMessage off Android nearly a decade ago...
...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....
...Picking up the baton from the Oscars-festooned Christopher Nolan and his three-hour epic Oppenheimer is filmmaker Brian Knappenberger....
...I thought of this while sitting in the courtroom for the trial between Epic Games and Google late last year....
...It later granted Epic Games access to its App Store, after Brussels said it was probing Apple over its move to ban the game developer’s account....
...Google’s Play Store, which charges a similar fee, is also in the spotlight after it lost a landmark trial against Epic Games in California in December....
...Sweeney also warned that Apple’s vetting of rival stores could prevent the Epic Games Store from featuring on iOS....
...Meanwhile in the US, the legal fight with Epic Games won’t go away....
...It’s not just a zero-sum game anymore,” said Phil Clapp, chief executive of the UK Cinema Association....
...Spotify and Epic Games, longtime Apple critics, have also argued Apple’s proposed moves amount to an act of bad faith....
...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....
...Tencent and Epic Games declined to comment....
...Just [on Tuesday] the Supreme Court denied certiorari in Epic Games versus Apple, in which one of Apple’s defences was that they need to sell apps exclusively through the App Store, because that’s the only...
...The game is available to play for free, but players can use its in-game currency, V-Bucks, to buy virtual items, from outfits to accessories and weapons, to personalise their characters....
...Analysis begins in medias res, with McElligott resembling the military sergeant who wakes you up during an enemy raid in the first mission of a video game....
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