Skich Store is opening to provide alternative mobile gaming shops. Source: Skich Store
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Skich Store launches as Epic court wins open up alternative mobile transactions

Inspired by Epic Games court victories against mobile game platforms, Skich Store has launched as an alternative for mobile game devs.

As the mobile games industry reels from Epic Games’ courtroom victory over Google, forcing the Play Store to open up to competing platforms, Skich Store has launched on Android, arriving just in time to offer developers and players a working alternative.

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Dean Takahashi

Dean Takahashi is editorial director for GamesBeat. He has been a tech journalist since 1988, and he has covered games as a beat since 1996. He was lead writer for GamesBeat at VentureBeat from 2008 to April 2025. Prior to that, he wrote for the San Jose Mercury News, the Red Herring, the Wall Street Journal, the Los Angeles Times, and the Dallas Times-Herald. He is the author of two books, "Opening the Xbox" and "The Xbox 360 Uncloaked." He organizes the annual GamesBeat Next, GamesBeat Summit and GamesBeat Insider Series: Hollywood and Games conferences and is a frequent speaker at gaming and tech events. He lives in the San Francisco Bay Area.