Epic Games is still tangling with Google on antitrust.
Epic Games is still tangling with Google and Apple on antitrust.
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Jury hands Epic win in antitrust case against Google

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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Epic Games won big in court today as the jury in its antitrust case ruled that Google has been operating an illegal monopoly with its Google Play app store and billing service.

The case comes three years after Epic Games sued both Google and Apple for the alleged anticompetitive practices in the restrictions it imposes on developers when it comes to its platform for distributing and making payments in its mobile app store.

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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.