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UPDATED with Epic Games statement: Epic Games has agreed to pay a total of $520 million in two settlements with the Federal Trade Commission over allegations the Fortnite creator violated the Children's Online Privacy Protection Act, and that it used design tricks to dupe millions of players into making…

A group of Canadian parents are suing US-based Epic Games over its massive Fornite franchise, claiming it makes children into gaming addicts who stop eating, sleeping, and showering. BBC News reports a Canadian Supreme Court judge has now authorized the lawsuit, filed against Fortnite’s Epic Games by…

A fundraising effort by video game Fortnite and Microsoft’s Xbox has generated $144 million for organizations seeking to help Ukraine. Six weeks after an invasion by Russia, millions of refugees have fled Ukraine, while those remaining face dire needs in terms of basic supplies and shelter. In a tweet, the Epic Games…

Tragedy struck millions of homes across the world today, as one of the world’s most popular online games went offline for several hours. Fortnite, which boasts more than 350 million players worldwide, was offline for several hours, thanks to an unknown glitch. The timing couldn’t have been worse for parents, whose…

EXCLUSIVE: Sony Pictures is putting forth the biggest promotional campaign to date during the pandemic for any major studio wide release with Spider-Man: No Way Home; the global brand marketing value seeing $202M and a billion-plus reach. While that dollar figure is the second highest for a Sony webslinger movie after…

Taco Tuesday is running through Thursday in a new pop-up shop in West Hollywood that teams the world’s most popular basketball player with the makers of its most popular game. Epic Games, the makers of Fortnite, have teamed with LeBron James in the immersive experience called "El Rey's Taco Tuesday," an industrial…

Tim Cook had an uncomfortable three hours in a California courthouse Friday – or at least that's what it sounded like with the muffled call-in audio available – as he defended the iOS App Store as an "economic miracle" but repeated the oft-ridiculed company line that no one at Apple knows how profitable it is — not…

Epic Games, the company behind Fortnite, said it has raised $1 billion in new funding and has reached a valuation of $28.7 billion. The fundraising round includes another $200 million strategic investment from Sony Group Corp., as the Japanese conglomerate renamed itself recently. Sony last summer had put $250 million…

EXCLUSIVE: Fortnite developer and publisher Epic Games is set to make its first known movie grant in the shape of animated feature film Gilgamesh, based on the hero from ancient Mesopotamian mythology. Through the Epic MegaGrants program, the developer is supporting Latin American animation studio Hook Up and…

Ruth Porat, CFO of Google, said an antitrust suit the Department of Justice and 11 state attorneys general filed against the search giant last month is meritless. Google dominates search because it's what users want, not because rivals can’t get a foothold, she insisted during a Q&A at The New York Times DealBook…

Tim Sweeney, founder and CEO of Epic Games, continued his attacks on Apple and Google for the 30% share of app sales they take from his company and other app developers. “Apple is a monopoly and it’s not just a matter of a distributor charging a commission,” Sweeney said at the New York Times DealBook Online Summit, a…

Apple on Tuesday countersued Fortnite creator Epic Games in California federal court, the latest move in the companies’ contentious battle over the uber-popular video game. At issue is the 30% of revenue that Apple and Google take from all downloads on their app stores. Epic integrated a feature that enabled users to…