Epic alleges Google put a lot of obstacles in the path of consumers buying Epic items outside of the Google Play Store.

The DeanBeat: Epic pulls out its real case against Google in antitrust lawsuit (update)

On Thursday, Epic Games revealed its fully unredacted antitrust lawsuit against Google, and the nature of the allegations and the evidence to back them up is finally coming into focus.

Last summer, Epic Games tried to bypass the Google Play store on Android and the Apple App Store on iOS by enabling users to get better deals for in-game purchases in Fortnite on Epic’s own store. Google and Apple both kicked Fortnite out of their stores, and Epic filed a monumental antitrust lawsuit against them. We summed up a lot of the legal battle with Apple here.

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