Tim Sweeney is throwing himself a little pity party.

Over on the wonderful social media platform known as Twitter, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeny revealed that Apple has rejected their request to add Fortnite back on to the App Store. Specifically, Apple has refused the request to reinstate Epic's developer account that was terminated back in August 2020 right as the legal fight was heating up.

Sweeney shared a letter that was sent to him by Apple. This letter rejects Epic's...

The cloud streaming service from Microsoft is now available to everyone.

Xbox Game Pass Ultimate subscribers no longer need to be invited to play on Xbox Cloud Gaming. As of June 28, Microsoft has opened the doors so that everyone with an Ultimate subscription can stream games to their Windows 10 PCs, Apple phones and tablets, or through your browser. Xbox Cloud Gaming was already previously released for Android devices during the earlier beta phases.

To get started, you...

Valve is pulled into this legal battle whether it wanted to be or not.

California judge Thomas Hixon says that Valve must comply with a subpoena from Apple in their legal fight with Epic Games. Apple subpoenaed Valve because they feel certain Steam information will be important in their case that they are building against Epic. Valve claims that Apple's case is all about mobile and their data has no bearing on this case. They also say that Apple is using this only to obtain a bunch...

The battle between the multi-billion dollar companies continues in Europe.

Epic Games just added the European Union to the locations in which they are engaging in a legal battle against Apple. The company announced that they have filed an antitrust complaint with the European Commission's Directorate-General for Competition. They claim that "through a series of carefully designed anti-competitive restrictions, Apple has not just harmed but completely eliminated competition in...

Head of Xbox Phil Spencer is confident it will happen.

In speaking with CNBC (relayed by Gamasutra), Phil Spencer says that he is "sure" that Microsoft and Apple will be able to resolve their differences and get xCloud support on iOS sooner rather than later. When asked about what those differences are, Spencer says that they aren't of a financial matter but rather "philosophical."

The problem goes back to September when Apple changed its guideline...

Get your popcorn ready.

On Tuesday, Apple filed a countersuit against Epic Games, accusing them of financial damages due to the bypassing of the 30% commissions that Apple takes from app developers. According to the court filing (PDF) Apple is accusing Epic of engaging in "self-help and subterfuge." They go on to say that "Epic sent a Trojan horse to the App Store," that being an update to Fortnite that allowed Epic "to bypass Apple's app review process and...

This is not a termination of accounts related to Unreal Engine devs.

Today, Apple followed through with part of their threat that they would terminate Epic Games' developer account. This is not the same as their threat to terminate the accounts of all Unreal Engine developers. That specific case was shot down in court earlier this week. However, that ruling still left the door open for Apple to terminate the account specifically related to Epic Games, the one used by Fortnite.
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The first battle in a long war has reached its conclusion.

This past week, Epic had filed for a temporary restraining order in order to prevent Apple from terminating all Epic developer accounts. This was a reactionary response from Apple after Epic Games filed a lawsuit against Apple for kicking Fortnite from the App Store when Epic decided they did not want to play by the rules.

This ban against Unreal Engine would have effectively barred all Unreal Engine developers...

Catalina will end support for all 32-bit apps, including games.

When Apple rolls out their upcoming Catalina update for their MacOS, it will kill off the ability to run any 32-bit apps, including all 32-bit based games. This update was originally slated to hit Fall 2019 but was pushed back to the upcoming update to the operating system.

Apple first announced this move to end 32-bit support back in early 2018. So while this shouldn't be too surprising for some people, it...

First, Epic came for Steam on the PC front. They threw piles of cash at studios to put their games on the Epic Games Store for a period of exclusivity that lasts at least one year or more. Now, Epic may be going after that sweet, sweet mobile industry by launching their own mobile games store.

This is according to a new report from MarketWatch.



MarketWatch goes on to say that Epic will once again allow devs to keep 88% of earned revenues. This is in...

The Game Awards for 2018 apparently doubled its viewership to 26.2 million livestreams. This is up from 2017's 11.5 million livestreams. There were 1.13 million concurrent viewers watching The Game Awards on Twitch during its peak.

Be sure to click the link above for even more news including the world premiere trailers and award winners from this year's show. The above photo are the God of War developers and actors accepting the Game of the Year award at this year's show. T...

Katy Perry created a new song for Final Fantasy Brave Exvius called "Immortal Flame." Not only that, but those who participate in an in-game event on December 12 will get to obtain "Popstar Katy" as a playable character.
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In case you missed The Game Awards this past Thursday, you missed out on a lot of new game reveals. More importantly, you missed out on the main focus of the show, the awards!

Fortunately for you, I have a full recap of the winners here. Right off the bat, you'll want to know that God of War won the Game of the Year award. It actually came as quite the surprise given how most of the other awards went to Red Dead Redemption 2. The Esports Athlete of the Year went to the always...