Epic Games is back with another litigation, this time taking on two of the biggest companies in the world, claiming Google and Samsung are colluding against third party apps.
Back in 2020 Epic Games sued Apple, when the latter removed Fortnite from its storefront. The reason was because the game maker, while protesting the 30% fee for in-app purchases on Apple phones, had purposefully ignored its guidelines and added its own mobile payment method for the in-game currency V-Bucks.
Soon after Google did the same and Epic Games sued them too. The lawsuit against Apple ended in 2021, with Epic Games winning one of 10 counts, meaning that Apple can no longer prohibit external payment links. The other litigation ended with the Fortnite creator winning on all counts against Google, who was found to have breached anti-trust laws.
Epic Games has now launched another lawsuit, this time accusing Samsung and …