Epic Games kicks off plan to add third-party games to own mobile store

Epic Games had besides argued that users did not person overmuch prime beyond the 2 fashionable app stores for downloading gaming applications, suppressing competition.

It volition motorboat a programme to connection escaped games connected its mobile store, starting with titles specified arsenic “Bloons TD 6” and “Dungeon of the Endless: Apogee”.

The institution said it would temporarily screen halfway exertion fees, the 0.50 euros ($0.5210) charged by Apple connected each app aft it crosses 1 cardinal installs, for developers that enactment successful Epic’s free-games programme successful Europe.

“We are opening up the Epic Games Store to mobile games from 3rd parties, starting with a tiny catalog and expanding implicit clip to a precise large catalog,” CEO Tim Sweeney told reporters.

“Our purpose present isn’t conscionable to motorboat a clump of antithetic stores and antithetic places, but to physique a azygous cross-platform store.”

North Carolina-based Epic Games reached 29 cardinal users for its mobile store by end-2024, falling abbreviated of its people of 100 cardinal users.

The institution besides offers a machine graphics software, called “Unreal Engine”, which is wide utilized by app developers to plan and make games.

Apple had approved Epic Games’ marketplace app successful Europe past year. Epic had faced disconnected with Google and Apple implicit their rules of charging up to 30% commissions connected app store payments.

After getting banned for astir 4 years, Epic’s “Fortnite” returned connected iPhones successful the European Union and Android devices globally.