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James Donato. Epic Games v. Google is a lawsuit brought by Epic Games against Google in August 2020 in the Northern District of California. [1] Filed concurrently with Epic Games v. Apple, Epic had challenged Google's monopolistic practices on its Google Play Store on Android devices. A jury trial was held in November and December 2023, after ...
Epic began pointing Fortnite players to direct downloads back in 2018, steering them away from Google’s Play Store. In 2020, Epic released Fortnite through Google’s official app marketplace ...
Match may have settled its antitrust lawsuit with Google last week, but Fortnite maker Epic Games is still set to go to trial with the tech giant today, November 6, in hopes of convincing a jury ...
Epic Games's founder and CEO Tim Sweeney. Since 2015, Epic Games's founder and CEO Tim Sweeney had questioned the need for digital storefronts like Valve's Steam, Apple's App Store for iOS devices, and Google Play, to take a 30% revenue sharing cut, and argued that when accounting for current rates of content distribution and other factors needed, a revenue cut of 8% should be sufficient to ...
Beginning today, Epic Games is discounting Fortnite V-bucks and other cash purchases if players buy them through PlayStation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch, PC and Mac. The discounts are available on ...
In 2020, Epic Games announced it would accept direct payments on the mobile app version of Fortnite. The move briefly allowed the company to circumvent Google and Apple’s in-app fees on purchases.
Epic Games gifted certain Fortnite players 950 V-Bucks for free. That’s enough in-game currency to afford the current battle pass, which itself is the best way to gain even more V-Bucks as well ...
Google’s defeat in its antitrust battle with Epic Games was a sweeping victory for the Fortnite maker and a significant upset to the business model underpinning the mobile app ecosystem, where ...