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Epic’s Fortnite standoff is putting Apple’s cash cow at risk

August 17, 2020
Apple and Epic Games have gone to war, with the two companies clashing over Apple’s App Store policies. Epic, in protest of Apple’s 30 percent fee for any digital transactions on its iOS platform, attempted to circumvent things with a direct payment option in Fortnite, leading Apple to ban the game entirely. But Apple’s Fortnite fight isn’t just over a particular policy for the App Store…
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Telegram launches one-on-one video calls on iOS and Android

August 16, 2020
Secure messaging app Telegram has launched an alpha version of one-on-one video calls on both its Android and iOS apps, the company announced, saying 2020 had “highlighted the need for face-to-face communication.” In a blog post marking its seventh anniversary, Telegram…
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Apple stumbled into a war with the gaming industry, and the future of iOS is at stake

August 15, 2020
Apple has always had a complicated relationship with the game industry, but this month that relationship slid into a bitter and very public legal and regulatory war that could shape the future of iPhone apps. The first escalation occurred when Apple laid out in clear terms why it has no plans to ever approve cloud gaming services from its tech rivals Google and Microsoft. The second was when Apple…
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Activision teases Call of Duty: 2020 in a basement in Warzone

August 15, 2020
Activision has teased its Call of Duty 2020 game, believed to be Call of Duty: Black Ops Cold War, in the Call of Duty: Warzone battle royale spinoff. The publisher hasn’t revealed it yet, but Doritos accidentally leaked information and the title about the next game…
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GamesBeat Decides 159: Epic vs. Apple, Halo delay, and NPD

August 15, 2020
GamesBeat Decides is here once again to shout that you’ve activated Tim Sweeney’s trap card. That’s right, Epic pulled some Yu-Gi-Oh moves on Apple and Google this week, and now we all have to choose the billion- or trillion-dollar corporation we’re gonna root for. It’s appalling! In other news, Warner Bros. Interactive reveals it’s going to talk about Suicide Squad and WB Montreal’s…
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EA rebrands its subscription game services as EA Play

August 15, 2020
Electronic Arts rebranded its subscription game services — EA Access and Origin Access — under the EA Play brand name. The big video game publisher said that the EA Access and Origin Access subscription game services would get this new name and look starting August 18.
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Apple has finally met its Fortnite match

August 14, 2020
Epic Games executed its most ambitious Fortnite live event yesterday, leading both Apple and Google to remove one of the world’s most popular games from their app stores. It was a well choreographed sequence of events designed to highlight the power Apple and Google hold over app stores, especially Apple’s walled garden. Epic Games has now filed lawsuits against both Apple and Google in a…
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