Epic Games is still tangling with Google on antitrust.
Epic Games is still tangling with Google and Apple on antitrust.
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Apple blocks Fortnite’s return to the U.S. App Store and Epic Games Store in EU, despite ruling (updated)

Epic Games Apple has blocked Epic’s submission of Fortnite to the U.S. Apple App Store and the Epic Games Store for iOS in the European Union.

“Now, sadly, Fortnite on iOS will be offline worldwide until Apple unblocks it,” Epic Games said in a tweet.

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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.