Epic Scores An Absolute Win In Its Antitrust Lawsuit Against Google

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The three-year legal battle between Epic Games and Google over antitrust allegations has come to an end with the former snagging an absolute win. The jury unanimously sided with Epic on its claims that Google monopolized Android app distribution through the Google Play Store and Google Play Billing, engaged in anti-competitive practices, and caused damage to Epic’s business. They also [...]

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Epic Games Re-Files Google Antitrust Lawsuit, Reveals Google’s Plans To Buy Them

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Over the past year or so, we’ve been keeping tabs on the still ongoing Epic Games vs. Apple antitrust lawsuit. But if you’ll remember, Epic Games also filed a similar lawsuit against Google for the same reason: pulling Fortnite from their storefront after Epic Games surreptitiously introduced a direct payment button within the mobile app. We haven’t covered this lawsuit [...]

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Arizona House Passes Bill Preventing Exclusive App Store Payment Systems

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The Arizona House of Representatives has just passed a sweeping amendment to bill HB2005 that prevents app distribution platforms from forcing Arizona-based app developers to exclusively use a particular payment system, effectively putting a dent on Apple and Google’s profit from in-app purchases. The bill applies to app stores exceeding one million downloads in the past year but exempts “special-purpose [...]

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Google Reportedly Paid Publishers Millions To Port Their Games To Google Stadia

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Google is going to great lengths to bring more publishers and their games to Google Stadia following the closure of their internal video game development studio. The tech giant reportedly payed publishers “tens of millions of dollars” for each game ported into the cloud-streaming platform. According to Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, sources claim that Google paid Ubisoft $20 million to port [...]

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Epic Games And Other Mobile App Companies Lobby For A North Dakota Bill To Control Big Tech Monopoly

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Smaller mobile app companies, including Epic Games, have taken their fight against Apple and Google’s monopoly of in-app purchases to the North Dakota Senate with a proposed bill that, once passed, will level the playing field for app developers in the state. According to The New York Times, a draft of the bill was submitted to North Dakota Republican state [...]

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Ubisoft Files Lawsuit Google And Apple To Court Over Alleged Rainbow Six Siege Clone

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French video game developer and publisher Ubisoft has filed a copyright infringement lawsuit against Google and Apple for allegedly ignoring the publisher’s request to remove Area F2 from their respective stores, a game that Ubisoft says is a “near carbon copy” of Rainbow Six Siege. “R6S is among the most popular competitive multiplayer games in the world, and is among [...]

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COVID-19 Threat Forces More Gaming And Tech Companies To Cancel Their Events

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The gaming industry continues to feel the effects of the COVID-19 virus as six more gaming and tech companies announce the cancellation of their events as a precaution against the novel coronavirus. Epic Games has cancelled Unreal Fest Europe 2020 in Prague; Riot Games abandons their planned Valorant hands-on event this month; Nvidia’s GPU Technology Conference (GTC) 2020, which was [...]

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Google Responds To Allegations That Google Stadia Under-Delivered On 4K Quality Promise

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Google is currently being bombarded with allegations of false advertising related to their recently launched cloud gaming service, Google Stadia. A number of users and reviewers are accusing the tech giant of under-delivering and exaggerating their claim that “all” games will support Ultra HD 4K at 60fps at launch. Apparently, Google Stadia renders games at 1080p and upscales it to [...]

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