Judge Issues Temporary Restraining Order Preventing Apple From Retaliating Against Epic Games' Unreal Engine

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The Epic Games and Apple legal drama continues as the judge in the case, Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers, issues a temporary restraining order preventing Apple from retaliating against Epic by denying them access to developer accounts and tools, a move that also affected third-party companies using Epic’s Unreal Engine. “Apple has chosen to act severely, and by doing so, has [...]

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Microsoft General Manager Issues Statement About Ongoing Epic And Apple Legal Feud

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Last week, we reported on Epic Games and Apple’s feud that started when the former attempted to bypass the latter’s 30% transaction fees with a direct payment method in Fortnite mobile. Apple responded by banning Epic from the App Store which then allowed Epic to file a lawsuit against Apple for monopolizing mobile app transactions. Apple then retaliated by blocking [...]

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Epic Games Declares War on Apple's App Store Monopoly, Gets Removed from App Store and Files Lawsuit

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Epic Games, the company behind the hit Battle Royale game Fortnite, has had enough with Apple's 30% App Store cut and essentially declared war on Apple by offering customers a way to pay directly, thus circumventing Apple and their 30% fee. Apple responded quickly by banning Fortnite from the App Store and Google did the same a few hours later. [...]

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Dungeon Fighter Online Has Earned over $15B In Life Time Sales - Highest Grossing Video Game of All Time

Nexon's hugely successful 2D side scrolling MMORPG Dungeon Fighter Online has earned over $15B in lifetime revenue (update 2022: Nexon reports that DFO has earned over $20 billion now) making it the highest grossing video game of all time. To put that number into context, that's about 250 million full price $60 games, which coincidentally is about as much as [...]

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White House Says Executive Order Will Not Affect Other Tencent Holdings

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Yesterday, US President Donald Trump signed a broadly-worded executive order banning WeChat and any transactions with Tencent in the US. The gaming community didn’t take the news lightly considering that the Chinese tech giant owns or has stakes in several big-name development studios. A White House official, however, clarified through the LA Times that the executive order only applies to [...]

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Trump Issues Executive Order Prohibiting Transactions With WeChat And Tencent

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Just a few hours ago, the internet blew up when US President Donald Trump issued an executive order that prohibits any transactions with WeChat and its Chinese-owned parent company, Tencent pursuant to EO 13873 (Securing the Information and Communications Technology and Services Supply Chain) which was issued in May 2019. “The following actions shall be prohibited beginning 45 days after [...]

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Blizzard Entertainment Employees Are Demanding Better Compensation

Hundreds of Blizzard Entertainment employees are organizing to demand fair pay, increased sick and vacation times, and other workplace requests. According to Bloomberg, over 870 employees are helping draft a list of demands using the company’s Slack network. Blizzard employees have been complaining of unfair compensation for the past few years but the company’s top brass have yet to implement [...]

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