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...Fortnite players jumped by 17mn to 52.9mn on Xbox and PlayStation in November, according to Ampere estimates....
...Lego posted its slowest sales growth since 2017 but still outpaced the worst toy market in more than a decade as the Danish maker of plastic bricks reaped the rewards of tie-ups with Fortnite and Harry Potter...
...Brussels is probing Apple’s move to kick Fortnite-maker Epic Games from its App Store, escalating a confrontation between the bloc’s regulators and the iPhone-maker as a landmark law targeting Big Tech takes...
...The Danish family-owned group has started a collaboration with Epic Games, and Christiansen said the first tie-up on the popular title Fortnite had been “overwhelmingly positive”....
...“Everybody is a smartphone user now, and one of the jurors is a Fortnite player, and it was good to see,” said Sweeney....
...The US Supreme Court has declined to hear appeals in an antitrust lawsuit between Apple and Fortnite developer Epic Games, a blow to both companies as each hoped aspects of a previous decision would be struck...
...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....
...A US federal jury on Monday found against Google in a lawsuit brought by Epic, the company behind popular video game Fortnite....
...The announcement of the terms of the settlement, which was reached in September, comes after Epic Games, the maker of popular online game Fortnite, won a related case against the tech company last week....
...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...
...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....
...The huge popularity of free-to-play online games such as Fortnite and Roblox consumes hours of playtime that had previously been spent on $70 titles....
...In August 2020, Epic deliberately circumvented Apple and Google’s payment rules, resulting in Fortnite being removed from their respective stores....
...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...
...Antitrust: The legal showdown between Epic Games and Google will begin after the maker of the popular game Fortnite claimed Google broke US antitrust law by hampering rival app stores that run on its Android...
...The man who keeps telling them is Tim Sweeney, chief executive of Epic Games, the developer behind the game Fortnite....
...Iger made a series of announcements on Wednesday, including a $1.5bn investment in Epic Games, the group behind the popular game Fortnite*....
...The two tech giants removed Fortnite from their respective app stores after Epic deliberately bypassed their payment methods....
...Players are then nudged into spending their pounds and dollars — or virtual currencies developed for particular titles, such as Fortnite’s V-bucks — on in-game outfits and guns....
...And if the eventual long term outcome of this is that there’s more Fortnite and more people playing Fortnite and more skin purchases within Fortnite, I don’t know if that’s a better outcome for society,...
...Selling more units and in-game purchases can help improve AAA economics a bit, but in the latter case the spend has disproportionately flowed to multiplayer gaming-as-a-service titles like Fortnite and Call...
...Among the damaging claims that Epic made, the Fortnite maker alleged that Google had cut special side deals with handset makers as well as certain publishers like Activision Blizzard....
...Here the graphics are of a bright, bland, Fortnite-esque flavour. The sense of mystery sustained by the design is somewhat diminished....
...In response, Apple and Google removed its Fortnite app from stores. Epic sued both companies. It has already lost its case against Apple, but is seeking a review by the Supreme Court....
...He was central to the decision-making behind Disney’s recent $1.5bn investment in Epic Games, which will see the two companies create a new version of Fortnite built around the company’s characters....
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