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The Google/Epic Games app store showdown goes before Court of Appeals | The DeanBeat

  • Posted byby Dean Takahashi
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We had a rare peek this week into the legal world of antitrust and its enforcement in the games industry. Google is appealing its loss in an antitrust trial as Epic Games convinced a federal court that Google had illegally acted as a monopolist in restricting Epic’s access to Android users.

Now Google has taken the case to the U.S. Court of Appeals and is trying to get the remedies that Epic Games won tossed out. The two sides argued before a panel of three federal judges in San Francisco.

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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.