The Daily Moot: Epic Wins Lawsuit
News Picks1. Epic Lawsuit Update
Epic has won part 1 of its lawsuit against Apple. After Microsoft came out in support of Epic by asserting that Epic’s Unreal Engine is critical for game developers and creators, a judge has ruled in favor of Epic, granting the company a temporary restraining order against Apple. Specifically, the judge said that hindering Epic’s ability to maintain Unreal Engine would cause “significant damage to the gaming industry” but also said that the issue with Fortnite seemed to be “of Epic’s own making.” While this doesn’t mean that Fortnite will be returning to the App Store, it does mean that Epic will maintain its developer rights until the next stage of the lawsuit hits the courts in April of next year. The legal teams for Epic and Apple are set to reconvene on September 28.
2. Black Ops: Cold War Warzone Reveal? Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War is set for its big reveal tomorrow, but it looks like Activision may be planning something a bit unique for the event. In a cryptic Tweet posted today, Call of Duty seems to be suggesting that the Black Ops: Cold War reveal will happen within the world of Warzone. It’s unclear exactly how this would play out, but the message is rather straightforward: “New contract. Coming to Verdansk. Aug 26.” The Call of Duty Black Ops: Cold War reveal is set to take place tomorrow at 10:30am PT.
3. Summer Games Done Quick Ends The 2020 edition of Summer Games Done Quick has come to a close. The speedrunning charity drive managed to raise $2.3M this year, with proceeds going to Doctors Without Borders which provides emergency medical and humanitarian aid across the world. While the $2.3M mark is certainly impressive, the number is actually down from last year’s event which raised over $3M. Since the annual event started in 2010, GDQ has raised over $27M in total for charities like the Prevent Cancer Foundation, Direct Relief, and AbleGamers.
4. New Nintendo Switch? A new version of the Nintendo Switch is on the way. Set to enter production later this year, the newest edition of the Switch will have a better graphical display and improved “interactivity.” Not many details about the upcoming console have been announced yet, so it’s unclear what hardware changes will be made in order to achieve these improvements. The new Nintendo Switch is slated to hit retail shelves early next year.
5. EA Steam Achievements EA has added more than 1,000 new achievements to their Steam games. These achievements were previously locked to the Origin versions of these games, despite the fact that EA transferred much of its library to Steam earlier this year. Some of the games which now have full Steam achievements include Titanfall 2, Need for Speed, Battlefield, and Star Wars: Battlefront 2. Any achievements you’ve earned will be automatically applied retroactively, meaning that you don’t have to worry about redoing achievements that you’ve already completed.
I stopped playing Fortnite for 86 days because I thought it was trash. It’s not THAT bad but i fee like there are a lot of players that play the game waaaayyy too competitively
youngmari09 And I don’t care u sound like a 7 year old u know u can use bad words not ur so rude or that was mean I’m not ur pedo PE teacher
Rolling nuggie cutie you know that some people choose not to be scum right? I don't even like fortnite but fuck you dude.
Rolling nuggie cutie the bad thing about fortnite is it's incredibly toxic community of clickbaiting garbage and high vocal pitched man baby cunts. the game is pretty okay, but the community makes everyone just hate the game in general.
Rolling nuggie cutie So people above the age of let’s say 13 are expected to curse? Fuck off
youngmari09 You started this nobody told you to reply on my comment bud
Epic Games's Fortnite is just a gaming monopoly for teens. Like Apple is a phone monopoly, Google/Facebookis a advertising monopoly, these companies are not anyone's friend. If Fortnite died other games can thrive.
I dont think you know who I am, if you did then you would be aware I know what I'm saying. You might not know what I am saying, but I do cause why would I say it then?
I review claims and verify if they are correct.
Zhamrok I am taking the assumption that you are a child/teen, so I am going to explain this as easily as I can. A monopoly is when a company is the only main supplier of a certain service. Fortnite takes a vast majority of the market for Battle Royale games. Thats okay. No one hurts from one person. But when a market trys to stop others from doing the same thing, or try to put an end on other companies, for them to control a market themselves this is a monopoly. Apple & Google are already having antitrust courts to settle, while Epic Games jumps in the mix to ruin it. Because if they can control the fees and the market, they can gain shares for themselves without compilation, starting more hearings about the antitrust laws, if they should be tightened more.
imagine being so bit hurt about fortnite even though epic games is right.😂🤣
Bruh you know that judge is a actual gamer
I hope everyone realizes that epic is in the wrong here and broke tos to make this lawsuit to gain control of the app market and release their own app store
epic winning a lawsuit, I wonder who there lawyers are...
I don’t play fortnite anymore but I still hope they win
then you obviously didn’t see that leaked email......
you do realize I'm hella bored and I'm not serious
no I didn’t I thought you were one of the blind Fortnite kids
AJR_99 first of all I'm a woman I'm above 18 and second of all I prefer joking around
samira Goddes never said anything about a gender, and I said I THOUGHT you were a blind Fortnite kid
I don’t like fortnight But I’m glad they won The lawsuit
They haven’t won tho that was one it’s going back...
Can’t wait for epic games to lose the lawsuit fortnite is not a real game
Ok so if I build a tower with no support to the moon it should collapse not if someone shot it plus it’s not a real game would rather play minesweeper on ultra hard mode
how are you gonna add your opinion to a reason for your opinion shut up faggot
VRolook Ok and I’m a start recording you need to learn how to communicate to people Karen
MRZ1234ify record what you want i dont care youre just retarded. i know how to communicate im doing it right now. also my names kingston not karen but i understand if you cant cause youre retarded
VRolook Ok Karan go get your perm and nails done and ask for the manager when you don’t get your way
MRZ1234ify i mean if you pay me ill go get them done 😁
I actually own every version of Minecraft the one on Xbox the two on pc and the one on apple
NatoPotato72 I actually play them I actually have a few videos up on my YouTube channel from my original laptop till I got a gaming computer which the gaming computer has been taken apart for upgrades
Cartoon characters breaking laws of physics and being overall shit vs. realistic character, using actual real life mechanics and being a generally good game I think I’m going to say you’re wrong here MW is definitely real
explain to me your reasoning here cause going by what you’re saying no game is a real game
not my way of thinking, its the guy who originally made the comments way
VRolook just fortnite isn’t a real game so get over it :))
also fortnite simply isn’t a real game because it’s shit and i refuse to categorise it as a real game maybe something a faggy 12 year old plays but not a real game
can't wait for epic to lose. Sweeney really deserves it. Do some research. All he cares about is profits and beating steam. Steam has done more for people than epic ever will.
They need to give free games to have people join their market
I know right. Nobody really went out of their way to buy anything on epic. The only thing they have going is free stuff 😂
Remember when Metro Exodus was supposed to only be on Epic?
I dont care for Fortnite, it's not a bad game it's just not for me. my problem with this lawsuit and how everyone views it is, I dont think many people realize how many other games use Unreal Engine. if Apple is able to ban and still make money off one game for it they'll eventually go after more mobile games and try to increase profit margins through a chain of law suits that would already have precedent.
I dont think people understand what this lawsuit really means for mobile.
This lawsuit is more than just freeing fornite, it is making a stand against a ongoing monopoly.
Hope that more gaming developers step in, I think the future is bright for mobile gaming in the future
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