Epic Games and its CEO Tim Sweeney have been at war with Apple for years now. The current situation is this: Epic wants to play Fortnite on iPhones and iPads, but to do so they need to use their own store and payment processor instead of Apple's official store, the App Store. Apple, on the other hand, hopes that Epic will not.

Epic did not get the ruling it wanted when it sued Apple on this issue in the US, but the story is different in Europe. The European Union's 2022 Digital Market Act now requires Apple to allow third-party marketplaces on iOS devices, and Epic finally gets the privilege of accessing one of the largest mobile device markets in the world without paying a fee to Apple, It can now sell Fortnite V-bucks in Europe (though Epic also objects to Apple's response to the law in the form of an entirely new fee it has devised).

Finally, the time has come for both companies to put the law into practice: Epic announced that the Epic Games Store will launch today in Europe on iOS and globally on Android Epic today announced that the Epic Games Store for iOS will launch in Europe and the Android version of the Epic Games Store” will launch worldwide: only three games: Fall Guys, Rocket League Sideswipe, and Fortnite, the latter since Epic intentionally broke Apple's TOS as a protest against the company in 2020, [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...] [...]

“The lack of any tangible action to stop U.S. companies from monopolizing the U.S. and worldwide is a massive failure of the U.S. regulatory and political system. But hopefully someone will continue to address this issue in the coming years.”

“In the meantime, we foresee being locked out of the worldwide iOS App Store for the foreseeable future, except in these regions, and perhaps for a few more years, as we continue our fight around the world.

Epic is also launching “Fortnite,” “Rocket League Sideswipe,” and “Fall Guys” on AltStore, another new third-party iOS marketplace using the European Digital Markets Act .