News | Fortnite removed from Apple Store and Google Play Store
Apple and Google have removed the popular battle royale game Fortnite from the App Store and Google Play Store. Epic Games has since sued Apple and Google.
Fortnite received an update on iOS and Android yesterday that allows players to bypass the regular way of making in-app purchases. By using ‘Epic Direct Payment’ all earnings go directly to Epic, and no amount is donated to Apple and Google. People who choose Epic Direct Payment therefore receive a twenty percent discount on their V-Bucks.
Yesterday, Apple and later Google decided to remove Fortnite from their digital stores. After all, it is mandatory for companies to transfer thirty percent of their sales to them when they offer their game through the App Store or Google Play Store, and Epic did not do this with this new payment method.
Epic has since sued Apple for “unfair and anti-competitive actions that allow Apple to maintain its monopoly in two billion-dollar industries,” namely, “the App Store and the iOS In-App Payment Processing Market.” Epic states that it is not suing Apple to make money, but to help thousands of other publishers and developers and to break the grip that Apple has on the mobile market. In the meantime, the company would also have sued Google.
News | Epic Games Store will get an achievement system
The Epic Games Store will soon receive achievements.
Epic Games announced this in a tweet. “Certain games on the Epic Games Store may soon show achievements when you unlock them. This is just an early version of the feature and you can expect to see changes. We’ll be sharing more information about the feature in the future.”
Achievements can be unlocked in certain forms on Steam, PlayStation 4 and Xbox One, but the Epic Games Store didn’t have them yet. It was therefore a much requested feature among users of the webshop.
Certain games on the Epic Games Store may begin to display achievements as you unlock them.
— Epic Games Store (@EpicGames) July 29, 2020
This is an early version of the feature and you can expect to see changes & adjustments.
We'll have more info to share on achievements in the future, so stay tuned! pic.twitter.com/80dnoLYegV
It is not yet clear when the achievements will become available. Its also not known whether players will retroactively receive achievements for previously played games.
News | Six Batman games available for free through Epic Games Store
Six different Batman games are available for free through the Epic Games Store.
It concerns the Batman Arkham Collection and the Lego Batman Collection, each with three games in the package. The Batman Arkham Collection includes Batman: Arkham Asylum, Arkham City and Arkham Knight, all three developed by Rocksteady. The open world games offer a serious look at the battle between the superhero and his various enemies.
The Lego Batman games are a lot less serious, but not less fun. Lego Batman, Lego Batman 2: DC Super Heroes and Lego Batman 3: Beyond Gotham are full of content and provide quite some game hours.
The two collections can be downloaded free of charge up to and including Thursday through the Epic Games Store.
News | Rumor: Fortnite may receive Batman items
A number of dataminers have started working on the new v10.31 Fortnite update and have found information from this regarding a possible appearance of a Batman theme in Fortnite.
The dataminers have found information about an explosive Batarang, a Batman Spray, a Batman Grapnel Gun and a Gotham loading screen for Fortnite. There is also a list of different challenges with a Batman theme, by completing these assignments, the player receives the Batman Spray for example.
The Batman game has been hopping on the Epic Games Store for a while. The as yet unannounced game is free to play from September 19 to September 26 as part of their weekly offer of free games. It is not yet known which game it is. The Batman crossover for Fortnite may be dominated by the game that comes to the Epic Games Store. Recently there has also been a crossover between Fortnite and Borderlands to celebrate the launch of Borderlands 3.
If Batman comes to Fortnite, it is possible that this will be announced soon, together with the Batman game that can be played for free from the Epic Game Store from Thursday. There is a chance that more will be shared this week about a possible Batman cameo.
