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Apple removes Fortnite from App Store after Epic Games lowers the cost of V-Bucks

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Apple has removed Fortnite from the App Store after the game’s developer announced new payment options that allow players to buy in-game credits direct from Epic Games. In response, Epic has taken legal action and filed a lawsuit in the District Court of Northern California to end Apple’s anti-competitive restrictions on mobile device marketplaces. The new payment option appears to skirt Apple’s App Store and Google’s Play Store rules, which require Epic to give up a 30% cut of the revenue made through the app. In announcement on its website, Epic dropped

Epic Games Raises a $1.8B Funding at a Post-Money Equity Valuation of $17.3B

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Fortnite developer Epic Games announced a $1.78B USD corporate venture round consisting of primary capital and secondary purchases from employee equity holders. The investment puts the company’s post-money equity valuation at $17.3B, up roughly 15% compared to its $15B valuation in 2018 when Epic Games raised a $1.25B round. The funding round includes a $250M strategic investment made by Sony Corporation in July. Participants in the investment round included UK investment management firm Baillie Gifford (roughly $250B under management), funds and accounts managed by BlackRock (roughly $7.4T under management), Fidelity

Fortnite Removes Police Cars

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Police cars have been removed from Epic's hugely popular battle royale game Fortnite, players have noticed following the release of the Chapter 2, Season 3 update. A source connected to the game told The Wall Street Journal that the removal of the cop cars was in response to the murder of George Floyd by police officers in Minnesota. However, the source said Epic Games was not trying to make a "political statement" but was instead attempting to be "sensitive about the issues" going on the world today.Earlier this year, Epic

GameSpot’s Play For All: Here’s How To Donate

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GameSpot has kicked off Play For All, an event that combines our coverage of all of the summer's hot gaming news with a series of charity streams. We encourage you to tune in for our daily livestreams with our friends from throughout the games industry and media as we raise money for two great causes: Direct Relief's COVID-19 relief efforts and Black Lives Matter. Here's how you can help. We've set up donation pages dedicated to each of the two causes. If you're able, we would encourage you to pledge

GCX Has Added DrLupo As A Board Member

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The Gaming Community Expo (GCX) has added well-known streamer, Benjamin "DrLupo" Lupo, as a board member. The Florida-based event won't have a physical setup this year, but will go ahead with online fundraising and a digital showcase later this summer. A video was released on the official GCX Twitter account earlier this week, narrated by Lupo himself. It confirmed that he would be joining the event's board and working closely with the Rare Drop organizing team on the GCX experience in the future. Lupo acknowledged that while the event would

Call of Duty: Warzone–Check Out Our Guide On How To Open Bunker 11 And Bunker Locations

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Call of Duty: Warzone has housed a bunch of secret bunkers that have laid dormant, but now they appear to be opening and supplying vast riches in the process. A recent update has finally given players a way to open the bunkers, and some think it could be a sign of what's to come in Season 4. In this guide, we'll go over how to open bunkers in Call of Duty: Warzone and provide a location guide so you know where to find them all. We'll also go over the

Xbox Studio Double Fine Donates $12,000 To Charities That Fight Racism

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The Xbox studio Double Fine Productions has announced a donation of $12,000 to a series of charities that fight racism in response to the murder of George Floyd. In a statement posted on Twitter, Double Fine said it condemns police brutality and calls for the immediate demilitarization of police forces in America. "Our message is simple: black lives matter, and the systemic oppression, disenfranchisement, and murder of black people must end," Double Fine said. "This is a critical moment. There can be no justice for black people in America, or

A Single Nintendo Switch Game Card Could Hold Every N64 Game Ever Made, Report Shows

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When a new console generation is released, usually the changes are incremental--enough to be impressive, but never truly mind-blowing. That's why sometimes you have to compare a modern console to its retro counterpart to understand how much games have really grown--sometimes literally. Redditor CorsairVI decided to run the math on this experiment, as picked up by Go Nintendo. With the Nintendo 64's signature rounded cartridges holding a maximum of 64MB each, CorsairVI worked out absolute maximum size of the Nintendo 64's international library of 388 titles to be 24.83GB. However

The Last Of Us 2 Dev Talks Accessibility — “Games Are For Everyone”

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Naughty Dog's The Last of Us: Part II will feature more than 60 different accessibility options that are aimed at helping the game appeal to a wide audience. Audio lead Robert Krekel has now shared a little more light on some of the audio-focused accessibility features, while he also spoke about how Naughty Dog's future projects will go even further and offer more in the way of accessibility features. Posting on Twitter, Krekel said The Last of Us: Part II can be "pretty much" completed with only audio. The audio