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A judge has ruled that Apple cannot charge a commission on purchase made outside the App Store.

A new report from The Verge shares the details on a ruling in the Epic Games v. Apple legal battle that has been going on between the two companies for way too long now. Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers has ruled that, effectively immediately, Apple can no longer collect fees on purchases made outside of apps. Furthermore, Apple can no longer restrict how developers point users to where they...

Even with this decision, the legal fight is still far from over.

The United States Supreme Court has refused to hear any appeals in the ever ongoing legal battle between Apple and Epic Games. These legal disputes largely focus on various policies with the iOS App Store that Epic Games disagrees with.

Apple initially appealed a lower court's ruling that said Apple needed to make some changes to their policies on iOS. Specifically, the ruling said that Apple couldn't block...

Epic has lost a challenge made to a 2021 ruling that favored Apple.

A new report by Bloomberg sheds light on the latest defeat Epic Games has suffered in court in their legal battle against Apple. On Monday morning, Apple won an appeals court ruling that upholds its App Store's policies against an antitrust challenges brought about by Epic Games.

This ruling was made by the US Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals and upholds an earlier decision made in 2021 by a lower-court...

Fight fight fight.

Google is now fighting back against Epic Games as part of the ongoing antitrust litigation between the two companies. A new countersuit was filed by Google against Epic Games and focuses on something called Project Liberty. Project Liberty is the name given to the 2020 plan from Epic that had them adding an alternate payment method to the Android and iOS versions of Fortnite.

This meant that users could bypass paying Apple or Google for purchases made...

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...

$200 million to get at least four first-party Sony titles.

Over the past several months, Epic Games has been in a legal battle with Apple. Back in May, a ton of information was shared on the Internet concerning the internal operations of both companies, this just happened to include word that Epic was offering Sony millions of dollars to get first-party PlayStation titles on to the PC. Or, more specifically, millions of dollars to get PlayStation titles on the Epic Games Store.
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These may still be coming or they may be scrapped.

More news out of the Epic Games v. Apple legal battle today. This time it's a look at some of the potential collaborations that may still be coming to Fortnite, or collaborations that have fallen through and will never come to light. There are some wild collaboration ideas that were shared today.

Planned collabs include an armored Batman Looper skin, Samus from Metroid, the Bride from Kill Bill, Snake Pliskin from Escape...

For the players? Yeah, right.

New documents have surfaced showing that Sony includes additional fees against publishers and developers for enabling cross-play with other platforms. It's been known that Sony was very much against enabling cross-platform play for years before they finally caved and "let it happen." New confidential documents reveal that Sony was holding out on cross-play in order to counter any potential revenue losses.

As part of the opening for...

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...

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...