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Apple Shielded From Crypto Wallet App Lawsuit, Judge Rules
8.9.2022
A federal judge in California has ruled that Apple Inc. is shielded from the “Toast Plus” class action lawsuit where a fake crypto wallet app was available in the Apple App Store. A customer sued the tech giant after downloading the fraudulent app and lost some crypto. Apple...
As Apple Threatens Pulling Games, Devs Explain Why Forced Updates Are A Preservation Nightmare
25.4.2022
Although the mobile gaming ecosystem is known for hosting live-service games that monetize more aggressively than standalone console games, there’s no shortage of creators making mobile games that don’t call for constant updates. Now, some indie developers are finding out what can happen when...
Apple on Metaverse: We See a Lot of Potential and Are Investing — CEO Tim Cook Says ‘It’s Very Interesting to Us’
31.1.2022
Apple CEO Tim Cook says the metaverse has a lot of potential and his company is investing accordingly. “It’s very interesting to us,” he noted. Global investments banks Morgan Stanley and Goldman Sachs have predicted that the metaverse could be an $8 trillion opportunity. Apple...
Fortnite Sneaks Back Onto iPhone By Way Of GeForce Now
13.1.2022
It’s been 518 days since Apple kicked Fortnite off of the App Store after Epic Games tried to bypass its payment system. Now the popular free-to-play battle royale is once again playable on iPhones, sort of. Starting next week, Fortnite will be available on iOS by way of streaming, as part of...
You Died of Dysentery: 50 Years of Traveling The Oregon Trail
24.12.2021
In 1991, I pulled a chair up to an Apple II in my first-grade class and inserted a floppy disk with a faded, fraying label: The Oregon Trail.Read more
The New iPad Mini Reclaims The Title Of Best Gaming Tablet
15.10.2021
When Apple released the original iPad Mini back in late 2012 I thought, “This is it, the perfect form-factor for tablet gaming.” Everywhere I went I pulled out the compact device, showing off its 7.9-inch screen, how well it fit in my oversized paws. I was never going back to a full-size iPad. Then...
Epic Confirms Massive L: Fortnite Not Returning To Apple Any Time Soon
22.9.2021
Today, Tim Sweeney confirmed on Twitter just how massive of an “L” Epic took in its recent trial against Apple. Apple has effectively “blacklisted” Fortnite from all Apple products until the legal clash between the two massive corporations reaches its conclusion, which could take as long as five...
Crypto Investor Sues Apple Over Malicious App That Stole Cryptocurrencies
20.9.2021
A crypto investor has filed a class-action lawsuit against Apple Inc. after she downloaded a malicious application from the company’s App Store that led to the theft of her cryptocurrencies. Apple Sued Over Theft of Cryptocurrency Due to Malicious App Hadona Diep, a resident of the U.S....
Breaking: Fortnite Banana Man Saga Ends With Official Court Ruling
10.9.2021
Fortnite’s Peely is a grotesquery of the highest order. You know it, I know it, and even Apple knows it. Yet somehow, Epic Games managed to convince a United States district judge that this elongated, yellow monster is “just a banana man,” at least according to today’s ruling in the contentious...
Epic Wins Big Fortnite Lawsuit Against Apple
10.9.2021
Today a U.S. District Court judge ruled in Epic Games’ favor in its lawsuit against Apple. As a result, Apple can no longer dictate that purchases made in apps on its own devices go through the App Store. Apple had previously collected 30% of the revenue for purchases made in Epic Games’...
No One Can Fully Explain This Baffling Roblox Ad Scam
5.8.2021
Over the past few days, a bewildering TikTok ad featuring clips from Roblox has torn through the internet. Some believe it’s an instance of performatively offbeat marketing. Some think it’s a fairly run-of-the-mill scam. Others say it was an accident, a technical mishap on the app’s backend....
Tencent Patent Wants To Let You Pass Down V-Bucks After Death
15.7.2021
Tencent recently obtained a patent relating to digital asset inheritance that might allow games to pass on in-game items and currency when they die. According to video game industry analyst Daniel Ahmad, who first spotted the news on Monday, the Chinese tech giant originally filed for the patent...
Coinbase to Launch Apple-Like Crypto App Store
30.6.2021
Cryptocurrency exchange Coinbase has unveiled its plan to build “the crypto app store,” inspired by how Apple Inc. built its app store. CEO Brian Armstrong said: “Apple didn’t attempt to build every app for the iPhone, it empowered developers and gave mobile users an easy...
Apple Hiring Manager With Cryptocurrency Experience to Launch New Alternative Payments Programs
28.5.2021
Apple Inc. has posted a job notice for a business development manager with cryptocurrency experience. “This position will be responsible for the end-to-end business development, including screening partners, negotiating and closing commercial agreements, and launching new programs,”...
Even Apple Knows Fortnite's Peely Is A Monster
10.5.2021
The Epic versus Apple trial kicked off its second week today, finishing up cross examination with Epic head of marketing Matthew Weissinger. In continued discussion of Epic’s unspeakable inappropriateness, Apple’s lawyer had some questions about Fortnite’s cursed banana, Peely.Read more
Everything That's Happening In The Apple vs Epic Case
10.5.2021
The big court case between Apple and Epic is one of the most important legal showdowns in the history of video games. It’s also throwing up a ton of very funny and interesting looks at how these billion-dollar companies do business behind the scenes.Read more
Apple Tries Really Hard To Get Epic To Admit There's Porn On Its Store
8.5.2021
Is there porn on the Epic Games Store? Seems like a pretty easy “yes” or “no” question. Today, however, the ongoing, increasingly contentious Epic v. Apple court case showed us that actually it’s possible to have a nearly 10-minute argument about it.Read more
Apple’s Not Happy With Epic’s Xbox Witness
7.5.2021
On Wednesday, vice president of Xbox business development Lori Wright testified in the ongoing trial between Epic and Apple. Now, Apple wants the court to make an “adverse credibility finding,” due to Microsoft withholding pertinent documents in her testimony.Read more
Apple To Epic: What's A Kotaku?
6.5.2021
Today, as part of the ongoing Epic v. Apple court case, Apple counsel Rich Doren, while cross examining Epic engineer Andrew Grant about a Minecraft Earth-related email chain between Epic employees, asked a very important question.Read more
Apple's Tim Cook On Epic's Tim Sweeney: I Do Not Know This Man
5.5.2021
Another day, another collection of very funny and insightful documents being released as part of the Apple vs Epic lawsuit. For tonight we have a 2015 email from Epic’s Tim Sweeney to Apple CEO Tim Cook, where one executive issues an impassioned plea for marketplace reform, and the other says “who...