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Last week, Apple announced that it will be terminating Epic Games' developer account. It was likely retaliation to the latter submitting a lawsuit after Apple had removed Fortnite from the Apple App Store. Microsoft has now decided to throw in its support for Epic Games, stating that termination of a developer account will hurt other game creators that rely on Unreal Engine.

When Epic Games sued Apple last week over the removal of Fortnite from its App Store, you'd think that things would simmer down before the two companies settle things in court. But Apple isn't going to take things lying down and has banned the former's developer account. And funny enough, it's going to be a fortnight from the date that Fortnite was removed. Oh boy...

When money is involved, things tend to escalate quickly. And things certainly escalated when Epic Games decided to implement its own in-app payment system for the mobile version of Fortnite. Now the game has been removed from both Apple App Store and Google Play Store.

Today, it has come to our attention that the popular manga/anime franchise - ONE PUNCH MAN - has finally made its way to the smartphone market as a mobile game. The mobile game follows very closely to the original material with some interesting mechanics and if you want to read more about the game before downloading, read on below.

If your preferred convenience store is 7-Eleven, here's something you might be interested in. 7-Eleven Malaysia has just launched the My7E, a loyalty member app can be accessed from a smartphone (or tablet, if you must). As you might expect from a program like this, it'll come with all kinds of exclusive rewards.

In this Movement Control Order period, the usage of social messaging has increased tenfold (I'm just exaggerating, but you get the point) and it's also the perfect time to chat with your love interest (#hinthint). But prior to this, Facebook was working with NPE Team and just released a new app called Tuned strictly for couples. It's also only for iOS so nope, no Android version for that.

Update - Maintenance is over, game servers are now live!

Just last night, we received a pop-up notification that the long-awaited ROCKMAN X DiVE mobile game app has officially launched! Although it can be downloaded on the Apple App and Google Play Store, it seems that the game app is on maintenance mode until 12PM due to the overwhelming number of pre-registered players (over 500,000, in fact).  

Huawei is rapidly catching up with its AppGallery as it is now the third-largest app store in the world. With over 400 million monthly active users in the platform, the company is now eager to attract more developers and apps by giving up to 90% of revenue-sharing to the developers.

Apple is facing serious kickbacks since Netflix and Spotify decided to stop all subscription payments from Apple’s App Store and now Youtube TV. So remember to switch your payment method before March if you’re still paying your Youtube TV subscription through Apple’s App Store.

If you're ever feeling nostalgic for the iPod, you can now turn your iPhone into one using an app. According to The Verge, the Rewound app is a music player that you can download from the Apple App Store and it comes with plenty of downloadable skins. Among them, there's one that will give you that classic iPod look.