A judge has ordered Google to open up Android to rival third-party app stores. The ruling is part of Epic Games' blockbuster antitrust case against Google. Google said it plans to appeal the ...

Google lawyer Jonathan Kravis attacked Epic as a self-interested game maker ... to download Android apps from some of the alternatives to the Play Store. “These are classic anticompetitive ...

Free Fortnite!” In August 2020, Epic Games sued Google and Apple, alleging similar claims against Apple’s App Store. Epic asserted that both internet companies operate illegal monopolies that ...

On Monday, a jury in San Francisco ruled in favor of Epic Games after a four-week trial focused on Google's app store policies. The jury found that Google acts like an illegal monopoly in the way ...

We had a rare peek this week into the legal world of antitrust and its enforcement in the games industry ... on alternative app stores within their App Store apps. Google agreed to pay consumers ...

From Windows 7 onwards, however, the developers at Microsoft no longer considered Space Cadet Pinball to be up to date. The ...

again from Epic Games: Apple largely won that case, although its App Store has had to comply with competition regulation in Europe. Google will no doubt appeal the verdict and hope for a similar ...

Apple is developing a new gaming app that will function across its ecosystem of products and directly compete with Google ...

not to preinstall app distribution platforms other than Google Play Store. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney posted about the “victory” on X, saying that as the injunction only applies to the US ...

“Big news!” he wrote. “The Epic Games Store and other app stores are coming to the Google Play Store in 2025 in the USA — without Google’s scare screens and Google’s 30% app tax ...