Epic Games continues to file antitrust lawsuits. The company has simultaneously filed complaints against Samsung and Google in a U.S. court, accusing them of collusion and attempting to protect the Google Play Store from competition.

Epic Games has decided to teach game development using the Unreal Engine. The company announced the launch of an educational course on game design on the Coursera platform.

In August 2020, Apple and Google removed Fortnite from their mobile app stores. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney told Game File journalist Stephen Totilo in an interview that over the years of the game’s absence from the stores, his company lost about $1 billion in potential revenue from Fortnite.

Epic Games has announced the launch of the mobile version of the Epic Games Store. The store has been released globally on Android and in European Union countries on iOS. It was made possible to launch it on iOS thanks to the Digital Markets Act (DMA).

Epic Games has supported AltStore PAL developers, who created an alternative app store to the App Store in EU countries. They invested in them as part of the Epic MegaGrants program.

Epic Games is preparing to launch the Epic Games Store on mobile devices in EU countries. In anticipation of this, the company has announced a change in its mobile strategy.

The launch of the Epic Games Store on iOS devices in EU countries is facing difficulties. Epic Games claims that Apple has already twice denied its release of a proprietary mobile app store due to button designs.

Last week, Time magazine published its annual list of the top 100 most influential companies. There were two strictly gaming companies in the ranking — Epic Games and Scopely.

The Dutch Consumer and Markets Authority (ACM) has imposed two fines on Epic Games totaling over 1.1 million euros. The agency concluded that the company used unfair commercial practices in Fortnite in relation to young players.

Apple and Epic Games will face another trial in court. A hearing will be held on May 8, during which Epic Games will try to prove that Apple violated the court order.

Epic Games has officially released an updated version of the Unreal Engine — 5.4. It has significantly improved the quality of animation and improved rendering performance.

Two weeks ago, Epic Games announced at the GDC 2024 developer conference that it had paid $320 million over the year to users who created their islands in Fortnite. Naavik analyst and senior business manager of the Xbox publishing division, David Taylor, looked at how this amount was distributed among developers.

Epic Games held a presentation of State of Unreal at the GDC 2024 developer Conference. During it, the company demonstrated the capabilities of the next version of the Unreal Engine and shared a number of news on the development of Fortnite and its business in general. We have collected the most important announcements.

Epic Games has announced that the Epic Games Store client will stop supporting Windows 7 and 8 operating systems from June 2024. It will also drop support for 32-bit Windows 10.

The European regulator intends to look into the situation with the deletion of the Epic Games developer account on iOS. The agency will check whether Apple has violated EU legislation.

Apple has closed a new Epic Games developer account just a few weeks after it was opened. With it, the company wanted to launch the Epic Games Store on iOS in the European Union and place Fortnite there.

Last week, the hacker group Mogilevich claimed that it had stolen 189 GB of internal Epic Games data, but did not confirm its words in any way. Now she claims that there was actually no hacking. Moreover, other hackers were her target.

The hacker group Mogilevich managed to penetrate the internal network of Epic Games, according to the Cyber Daily portal. On their website on the darknet, the attackers claimed the theft of 189 GB of company data.

On February 7, Disney announced that it had invested $1.5 billion in Epic Games. According to sources of The Information, she bought a stake in the company with an aggregate valuation of Epic Games at $22.5 billion.