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Epic Games pulls out of ‘rent collector’ distribution and will restore Fortnite to iOS in Europe

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Epic Games unveiled its new game strategy for mobile game stores yesterday in a move that was driven by new regulation in Europe as well as its ongoing battles with big platforms.

The company said it is fast approaching a quantum leap in Epic’s efforts to bring its games to players on mobile devices. If you recall, it was booted off the app stores after it filed its antitrust lawsuits against Google and Apple, and that case went through the courts.

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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.