Apple has issued an indefinite injunction. Now the company has no right to prohibit developers from inserting links to other payment methods into iOS applications.

Epic Games decided to take advantage of the changes in the legislation of South Korea and tried to return Fortnite to the local App Store. That’s just Apple did not agree — she did not see any reason to return the game.

Alexey Savchenko, who previously held the post of licensing manager at Epic Games, wants to make the gaming industry a little better. He announced the imminent launch of a legal and consulting service for developers. He promises to help all deceived developers with the examination of contracts, and to show newcomers what pitfalls there are in relations with large companies.

Details from the trial of Epic Games and Apple continue to emerge. This time they are about Google. It turned out that the company was thinking about buying Fortnite authors with the help of Tencent. She also paid smartphone manufacturers to abandon third-party marketplaces and gave at least “hundreds of millions of dollars” to popular developers so that they would not leave the Play Store.

The US has prepared a bill that could seriously reshape the business model of mobile stores. If accepted, it will allow developers to add third-party payment systems to applications and tell users about discounts outside of stores. The initiative has already been approved by Epic Games.

In August 2019, Epic Games predicted losses from the first wave of exclusive games released in its store. Two years later, an internal document got online. It turned out that the company expected to lose about $130 million.Game expert Simon Carless drew attention to the document.

The conflict between Epic Games and Google continues to develop. Fortnite developers have updated their lawsuit against the corporation, adding several new proofs of Google’s monopolistic behavior.

There is a replenishment in the Epic Games family. It was joined by Sketchfab, a platform for publishing interactive 3D models. The size of the transaction is not specified.

Epic Games continues to improve its store. The company has updated the Epic Games Store (EGS) development plan in the Trello Task Manager. Soon, player profiles, clickable tags and a few more features should appear on the platform.

In Australia, the hearing on the case of Epic Games and Apple will continue. He was “frozen” in April due to a similar trial in the United States. But now the court agreed with the arguments of the creators of Fortnite and recognized that the situation should be considered from the point of view of local laws.

Together with the release of Unreal Engine 5, a technodemo was released in early access, demonstrating the new capabilities of the engine. The interactive scene looks impressive, but requires 100 GB of free space and at least 32 GB of RAM. This has given rise to discussions about the growing requirements for drives in new games.

Neither Epic Games nor Apple may get what they want as a result of court proceedings. This is indicated by the statements of Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers (Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers). But whatever decision she makes, an appeal is “almost inevitable.”

The trial between Epic Games and Apple ended yesterday. At the final four-hour meeting, the lawyers of both companies made their final arguments in the case. For example, about how the App Store monopoly looks in their eyes.

The last witness in the trial between Epic Games and Apple was Tim Cook. He stayed in the courtroom for at least two hours, the last minutes of which he had to spend in a tense debate with the judge. Among other things, she was interested in why iOS users cannot buy in-game items outside the App Store.

Such data was shared by Michael Schmid, head of the gaming business development department in the App Store. He declined to give the exact amount, saying it would be “inappropriate.”

Apple actively helped with the promotion of Fortnite in the App Store, said Michael Schmid, head of the gaming business development department at the App Store. It is not known how much the company has spent on marketing the title for the entire time of its existence, but from October 2019 to August 2020, it invested $ 1 million. Lauren Moskowitz, a lawyer at Epic Games, described it as a “bargain.”

Apple‘s lawyers have asked the court to dismiss one of the ten main points in the Epic Games lawsuit. In it, the authors of Fortnite claim that the promotion of the game on iOS is necessary for effective business development.

Litigation with Apple does not prevent Epic Games from suing other companies. She accused the manufacturer of AR-glasses Nreal of violating the trademark “UNREAL”. They say that the name of the company is too similar to the name of the Unreal Engine, and this can confuse consumers.

Yesterday, during the trial of Epic Games and Apple, expert witness Lorin Hitt shared statistics on paying players in Fortnite. It turned out that 24.2% of battle royale users made purchases in it.