Epic Games said today its popular shooter title “Fortnite” has returned to global App Stores, as the videogame maker signaled confidence in a favourable outcome from an ongoing lawsuit against Apple.<\/p>\n
“Once Apple is forced to show its costs, governments around the world will not allow Apple junk fees to stand,” Epic said in a statement.<\/p>\n
Epic, a US-based studio backed by China’s Tencent, has been embroiled in a legal battle with Apple since 2020 and alleged that the company’s practice of charging a commission of up to 30% on in-app payments violated US antitrust rules.<\/p>\n
“Apple knows the US federal court will force it to be transparent about how it charges its App Store fees,” Epic said.<\/p>\n
Last year, “Fortnite” was made available on the App Store in the US after a nearly five-year ban.<\/p>\n
“Fortnite”, one of the most popular games in the world, follows a last-man-standing battle royale formula and boasts millions of daily players who spend heavily on in-game currency to buy cosmetics for avatars.<\/p>\n
However, Epic earlier this year said it will cut more than 1,000 jobs following a drop in engagement for “Fortnite” due to macroeconomic uncertainty and a challenging spending environment.<\/p>\n
Epic said “Fortnite” has not returned to the Australian App Store yet as Apple continues to enforce many developer terms that the court had found unlawful.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Epic Games said today its popular shooter title “Fortnite” has returned to global App Stores, as the videogame…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":456700,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[61,60,80],"class_list":["post-456699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-technology"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=456699"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/456699\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/456700"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=456699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=456699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=456699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}