News & Reviews:   Epic Games

Some three years after its removal from the Apple App Store for violating store rules, Epic Game’s Fortnite may set for a dramatic return to the platform this year. While nothing concrete has been unveiled just yet, Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has teased the matter prior to New Year’s Day recently.

As most PC gamers know, Sony has been importing some of its exclusive triple-A video game hits to Steam and Epic Games Store. This includes the latest Marvel's Spider-Man Remastered but Sony may be planning something big. Recently, VGC just discovered that there are some codes inside the game referencing a PlayStation (PS) PC launcher.

During the weekend, Indonesian gamers woke up to the devasting news that their government, the Ministry of Communication and Information Technology (Kominfo) had blocked several platforms such as Steam, Epic Games, Battle.net and many others (PayPal lol). It was trending with heat on Twitter and many criticised Kominfo for enforcing the policy for tax purposes.

Back in 2020, Apple and Google both dropped the mobile version of Fortnite from their app stores. Despite escalating into a lawsuit, Epic Games was unable to put the game back on the app stores. But it's been confirmed that the game would return in another form.

Do you enjoy space empire building games? If you do, you can grab one for free next week from Epic Games Store (EGS). For the next two weeks, the platform will be giving away Gods Will Fall, followed by Galactic Civilizations III.

It's the Christmas season, and Epic Games might be giving out several titles for free soon! According to the leak, Epic Games Store will be giving out as many as 15 games later this month. If it's true, users will be getting one title each day, starting from 16 until 30 December.

If you're not familiar with Unreal Engine, it's a developer kit tool that has helped gaming developers on creating many video games. Today, Epic Games released a new Unreal Engine 5 teaser that's coming on 9 December in conjunction with the upcoming The Matrix movie.

Epic Games might have claimed that Fortnite wouldn't be returning to the Apple App Store, but that wouldn't be possible anyway. The company allegedly pledged to adhere to Apple's guidelines if its developer account was reactivated. Unfortunately, Apple doesn't have any intentions of doing so.

If you recall, the great Epic Games vs Apple saga has been drawing to a close in recent weeks. About 2 weeks ago, Apple reached an agreement with developers to allow certain apps to promote alternate payment methods. Now, the latest court ruling was announced and it isn't quite what both parties wanted.

Some of you may recall Epic Games' decision to bypass the Apple App Store's payment system last year. Things quickly blew up between the two companies, resulting in an anti-trust lawsuit against Apple. After a long year, we're finally getting some form of resolution to this.