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Právníci Applu se u soudu oháněli nahým banánem. Raději mu nasadili oblek
17.5.2021
Právníci společnosti Apple u soudu s herní společností Epic použili obrázek postavičky Peelyho z videohry Fortnite. Protože se však prý u federálního soudu nehodí ukazovat svlečený banán, zvolili jeho variantu v obleku
ANKETA: Jak se díváte na právní bitvu mezi Applem a Epicem?
15.5.2021
Epic si porušením podmínek vynutil smazání hry Fortnite z aplikačních obchodů Googlu a Applu. Zahájil tak tažení, v němž tvrdí, že Apple má monopol a poplatky jsou přehnané vzhledem k jeho nákladům. Co si o sporu myslíte s odstupem vy?
‘Console Games Were Not The Future’: Disney After Epic Mickey
14.5.2021
The following is excerpted from Press Reset: Ruin and Recovery in the Video Game Industry, a new book from Blood, Sweat, and Pixels author and former Kotaku press sneak fuck Jason Schreier about studio shutdowns and what happens next.Read more
Big Time Studios Aims to Bring NFTs to the Masses, Set to Raise $21 Million in Funding
14.5.2021
The Los Angeles-based company Big Time Studios has announced the company is set to raise $21 million in two funding rounds backed by a number of investors. The company’s founder Ari Meilich was the CEO and co-creator of the Ethereum metaverse Decentraland. Big Time Studios aims to bring...
Please Enjoy This Brief Courtroom Description Of A Fortnite Trailer
11.5.2021
There wasn’t too much of note going down in the big Apple vs Epic court case today, but one thing I did enjoy very much were these official court transcripts of Fortnite trailers, in which the various events are described in painstaking detail.Read more
Steam tag trends, Epic & Valve lawsuit drama, & more
10.5.2021
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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
Právníci Applu se snaží dokázat, že Epic Store prodává porno
10.5.2021
Během soudního sporu mezi společnostmi Epic a Apple přišla řeč i na obchod s nezávislými hrami Itch.io, jehož klienta lze stáhnout přes Epic Store. Podle právníků Applu obsahuje hry, o kterých se u soudu nedá mluvit nahlas
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 Lawyer Points Out Epic Games Store Top 20 Has 25 Games
7.5.2021
During Apple’s cross-examination of Steven Allison, general manager of the Epic Games Store, Apple’s lawyer walked all assembled, piece by piece, through the Epic Games Store. Alongside saying game titles like Warframe and Necromunda: Hired Gun like they’re normal human words, Apple’s lawyer also...
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
Three key discoverability takeaways from the Epic/Apple lawsuit
5.5.2021
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Zombie akce Dead Island 2 bude zřejmě na PC exkluzivitou pro Epic Store
5.5.2021
Chystané pokračování skvělé zombie akce Dead Island nejspíš vyjde na Steamu až s časovou prodlevou oproti konkurenčnímu obchodu Epic Store. Vyplývá to z materiálů zveřejněných během soudního řízení mezi společnostmi Epic a Apple
Please Enjoy Epic's Tim Sweeney Apologising Profusely To Ubisoft For Screwing Up
5.5.2021
While the documents and emails being released as part of the Epic v Apple case are often important and full of detailed information, I am very much enjoying the ones—like this—where billionaire executives are forced into embarrassing apologies when their company fucks up.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...
Epic Tried To Convince Xbox To Make Multiplayer Free Alongside Apple Fight
4.5.2021
An email between Epic CEO Tim Sweeney and Xbox head Phil Spencer, made public today as part of the ongoing Epic versus Apple trial, shows Sweeney trying to entice Spencer to take “free-to-play” multiplayer out from behind the Xbox Live paywall to coincide with Epic’s war against the App Store.Read...
Epic Spent $1 Billion On PC Exclusives By 2019
4.5.2021
As the trawl through Epic’s court documents continues, another figure jumps out: $1 billion—the amount Epic had spent on securing exclusives by 2019.Read more
Epic Paid $115 Million For The Borderlands 3 Exclusive
4.5.2021
As the bizarro-world bunfight between Epic and Apple enters its second day in court, more extraordinary information is coming out in court documents. Like, how Epic paid Take-Two/Gearbox one hundred and fifteen million dollars for the exclusive rights to sell Borderlands 3.Read more