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Apple terminates Epic Games’ [game accounts], making Fortnite and other games unavailable

If you had previously downloaded Fortnite or any other Epic game, you can still play, but those games will not be able to be updated.

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Tech51373d ago (Edited 1373d ago )

"Apple terminates Epic Games’ developer account"

this is surprisingly good news actually... no way am i using a feature that required you to spend $800 and have a Apple developer account. https://docs.unrealengine.c...
hopefully Epic can make their mo-cap feature work closer to cheaper and more accessible hardware.

bouzebbal1372d ago

Fortnite and Apple, two overhyped brands..

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rdgneoz31372d ago (Edited 1372d ago )

Surprising that Apple did it, since a judge told them not to...

"Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers late Monday evening, through a temporary restraining order, blocked Apple's move to revoke Epic Games' developer accounts.

But, the judge also ruled that Apple can continue to ban Fortnite from the App Store for breaking the store's rules."

Going against a judge's order can bite them in the butt later. Should have just stuck to the Fortnite ban.

ssj271372d ago

Only stupid people follow what government or judge tells them. If is yours you do whatever you want fuck government or judge mafia. Why you as a business have to bend over to a mafia or other business. People are such a sheeply now days only God can tell you what to do government doesn't have more power than you as a person

LucasRuinedChildhood1372d ago

"People are such a sheeply now days"
"only God can tell you what to do"
lol

Outlawzz1372d ago

@ssj27 Well I mean you follow the rules or you don't. It's simple. Nobody can tell you what to do but there's consequences for not following the law. You follow the rules every day. If making believe your a rebel makes you feel better then good for you lol keep fighting the establishment !

sprinterboy1372d ago (Edited 1372d ago )

Only God can tell you? pmsl, who's the sheep now?

NeoGamer2321372d ago (Edited 1372d ago )

Yup and in the name of God almost every war to date has been fought. Billions have died because stupid ass people that want to remove accountability from themselves use God as a crutch to justify their actions. "God spoke to me". What a bunch of BS. There is not God so how can it speak to you?

Where does this God live? Where is heaven? Where is hell? How did God come to exist? How come science has explained planets, life, etc without God. Heck we even can surmise now that there is probably life on other planets.

Worshipping God has repressed women, promoted slavery, ignored medicine, persecuted science, said the planet was flat, etc. Not a single fact believed by believers was true. The only thing worse then believing in God is using God as an excuse to do what you want rather than follow the laws of the country. Without laws the world would be chaos because every stupid ass on the planet could say, "God told me to kill everyone". And get away with it.

BillyG0AT1372d ago

My god is better than your God.

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silenthillstrangler1372d ago

Except God doesn't tell you anything.

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Atticus_finch1372d ago (Edited 1372d ago )

@Lucian229 Obviously Goku. Lol

@Ssj27 My dude you're very confused. Religion is a very early form of Government. And like any first version of anything, it sucks.

Profchaos1372d ago

But it sounds like you're towing the same line all the deniers tow which makes you a sheeple to just in another direction.

RgR1372d ago (Edited 1372d ago )

@ neogamer
World wars were not about God....so. and before Christianity and even during the rise of Christianity there were plenty of wars....a shit ton of them...all of the time. Mainly to get someone else's stuff or conquer more land.
Take China. None of the wars were about God really. And during the old testament ...wars were also not really about God.

So, besides the crusades which were efforts to preserve the holy land...what wars are you talking about?

And you should read up on history. The world truly was chaos and Christianity brought a ton of values and order that you take for granted today. Still with mistakes because people are people but definitely better than before.

As far as science well that's a different God. And in the past even scientists could admit that there are many unexplained events. Many miraculous cancer recoveries and other things that doctors have no clue about. If you were not aware btw in order for a miracle to be deemed a miracle by the church it must first be presented to scientists to explain. Only once they can't explain it does it move up the chain.

ssj271372d ago (Edited 1372d ago )

To clarify because there is lots of naive people around here. I follow God law or try to follow thanks God most of his law are used in by most governments now days or based from it. I never say don't follow the law I'm saying follow God law overcome any government law anytime anywhere. Everything else is wrong and abuse of power. So if apple has a netwok and he wants to charge 30% nobody was forcing x company to use apple network if you don't like their prices bye bye i dint see anything wrong it's actually the other company who was cheating because they think they could and they can complain or try a deal for less % sure but they can algo get caught and kick out i don't see why apple need to be forced to allow them to make more than others in terms of % or government getting involved will bring us closer to a totalitarian government which is what is happening 1984 little by less

Ps once you die you will find out which God

RosweeSon1372d ago

Lay off the Charlie and stop watching wolf of Wall Street 😅😅🤣

King_Noctis1372d ago

Man thanks you for making my day with this comment.

kopp3rbug1372d ago

So red lights and stop sign don't apply to you then. Drivers license or personal I.D. don't either?? Im also assuming you don't use money to buy things???

lucian2291371d ago

But which god's rule are you following? because you may be violating the wrong one....cuz you know there are over a thousand

NeoGamer2321371d ago

@Rgr
Many conquering wars were about a God believing nation trying to conquer another nation to instill their way of life (religion included) upon the other nation because they felt their way of life was the best and needed to "show" the other country that it was better by conquering them. They may not have been solely about God, but how many leaders have been quoted as saying, "God willing we will win war X". ISIS and al-Queda are all about instilling a harsh interpretation of religion onto people. The wars fighting between communism and capitalism were about both religion and economic systems. The small wars conquering north/south america were races not only to establish trade routes but to impose religious and economic beliefs on first nations.

Yes, man has evolved over time. This was not because of religion. This was a need to create order as humanities population grew and weapons humans created got more and more sophisticated. Religion did help convince people of the need quicker... But, it was a need that was destined to be fulfilled just like there are hierarchies within animal species there are hierarchies in human species (That I might add are wrong - #BlackLivesMatter). Don't get me wrong there has been good things because of religion, but there has also been a lot of bad.

Science is not a different God. Science explains things through a fact based method. Scientists don't worship anything, they require proof for the explanation. Religions explain things using God as the explanation for everything. Science has not explained everything that has ever happened. But, over time it will. And to date what science does not explain can be summed up as statistical odds. Meaning that if a billion people get cancer, a few of those people could recover for an unexplained reason. There are so many permutations that can happen in any event, some are bound to be unexplained.

You still have not addressed any of my questions about where God is? How God came to be, etc. Those are as unanswerable as science not explaining miracles. Also, you fail to explain why over time, the bible is being found to be inaccurate in explaining the world and why people's interpretations of the bible have led to strife. Why should anyone believe in the bible if over time the word of God has been found to be wrong?

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Christopher1372d ago

They didn't. Bad title is bad.

They revoked Epic's account for their games, not for the development tools. The developer accounts are tied to unreal engine, not epic game accounts.

FPS_D3TH1372d ago

Let Epic make a countersuit then. So Apple Pay’s a fine? Big whoop. A price I’d pay to show a shitty game dev they’re not better than every other dev that pays 30%

NeoGamer2321372d ago

To begin with all these companies are horrible.

But, in this case the tail is wagging the dog.

Developers make a platform successful. Nobody buys a platform that does not have apps/games. So, it is those same developers that make the platform viable. To charge developers 30% and make it a massive revenue stream is wrong. I am fine with Apple's rules. But, the amount they charge developers should not be 30% and a massive revenue stream for Apple. It should only be what is required to run the store.

Developers don't really pay that 30% either. It is us as consumers that pay that cost. Developers jack their prices on the Apple Store to keep their business viable. It is ridiculous what is going on and it needs to change.

lnfiniteLoop1372d ago (Edited 1372d ago )

Epic Games has been banned from the storefront... not the Epic International account which has the Unreal Development tools that Devs have access to... therefore not going against judges pre trial comment...

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Knightofelemia1372d ago

Well the Iphones with Fortnite on them are going to go up in price on Ebay

DaniMacYo1372d ago

And in other news Lewis Hamilton is on Pole Position for the Belgian Grand Prix again.... should be an exciting race if it rains at some point during the race.

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HexGaming Launches Kickstarter Campaign for Hex Phantom

Custom Controller Company HexGaming launched a Kickstarter campaign for their latest pro controller, Hex Phantom. - IS

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Evercade Alpha Reveals Affordable Mini-Arcade

This looks fun and affordable for fans of Retro Cabinet games.
Introducing Evercade Alpha, the first Evercade-compatible arcade machine. This bartop-sized arcade gives you everything you want in a home arcade machine with one big feature - full compatibility with the Evercade cartridge ecosystem.

darthv722d ago

I like the Mega Man one more as it has a better variety of games. Strider, Carrier Airwing, Final fight... The other is all SF. Plus i like that i can pop in any of my evercade carts to play as well.

Garethvk2d ago

As long as it is durable; it's a deal.

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Sony Says The PS5 Is Its “Most Profitable Generation To-Date"

During Sony’s recent business segment meeting and investor presentation regarding its game and network services, the PlayStation company revealed that PlayStation 5 is the company’s “most profitable generation to-date.”

It’s the top slide of the presentation, showing that in its first four years, the PS5 generation has already hit $106 billion in sales, having almost caught up to the PS4’s total $107 billion generated.

Operating income for the PS5 generation has also already surpassed that of the PS4, having now reached $10 billion.

ApocalypseShadow3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

I wouldn't doubt it. They released a high quality system. A lot of high quality games from themselves and their support of 3rd party developers and indies. They released many high quality remakes and remasters. They released a high quality GaaS game going against the naysayers thinking Sony would abandon single player games. And they most likely are profiting a lot more than PS1, PS2 PS4 and the loss leading PS3 that drained all their profits.

Now, I'll wait to see what's cooking tomorrow. But can you use some of those profits to better support your high quality VR headset? Because, by supporting it, you can sell more games and more systems and make more profits?

jznrpg3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

I want RPGs for PSVR2! Good ones of course

shinoff21833d ago

If it had some rpgs I would buy right fking now. It looks dope and alot of fun, but it's biggest game resident evil 4(maybe) I've got no interest in. I'm not a fan of racing games, even with that metro game coming i was never much into that series. Rpgs would be fantastic.

MrNinosan3d ago

Lemme know if ya wanna play some Zenith 🙌
Bought it at release, but haven't played it more than 1-2 hours but for sure on my "todo list".

Cacabunga3d ago

Normal when they released mostly cross gen games so far. That’s a lot of money saved..
We haven’t seen what PS5 can do yet. 4years in and PS4 games still look great to me. The gen leap isn’t quite there yet.

--Onilink--3d ago

The interesting metric for me is the $106billion in operating income/profit (not sales as mentioned in the article) reaching the same as the PS4 did with only half the consoles sold.

In particular because they all are supposed to be making the most per hardware sold after a few years when manufacturing costs are down.

So even putting inflation aside(and the higher console price), it is interesting that they could reach PS4 $ with just half the consoles sold.

Maybe there is more to the metric thats whats seen at face value, but they have clearly been making a lot more money than before on the software side (with also less games released I suppose, given its only been half the generation so far)

VersusDMC3d ago

The bulk of the money has to be coming from the 30% cut on all games and microtransactions. Especially on all the free to play juggernauts like genshin, apex, fortnight, etc.

--Onilink--3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

@Versus

They are definitely making a lot on that for sure (which the $70 price increase factors into as well), but its not like many of those games werent around for the PS4 too.

They might be counting the gen as a whole and not just PS5 itself (so extra profit from PC sales, whatever that may be)

PS+ price increase and different tiers probably amount to part of that too.

But in general, its still quite a surprising metric. Half the time, half the consoles sold, less first party games released so far and still already making more of a profit than last gen is quite something, and as mentioned, there is probably more to it that we dont know, after all, since we are talking about operating income, all the expenses they have also factor into it, so it is also possible that they have found ways to significantly reduce that + all the means of increased revenue that appear to be factoring into the equation

All in all, just an interesting situation from a business perspective

porkChop3d ago

It's for the whole generation, so it would likely be including PC. They also make much more profit on digital sales vs retail, and digital is far more prominent these days. The generation also started at the height of COVID when everyone was home, spending far more money on gaming/hobbies. It makes a lot of sense for this gen to be more profitable.

Abnor_Mal3d ago

This will surely shut up all the new trolling accounts trying to spread lies and non facts in other articles comment sections before this article is posted.

Hofstaderman3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

Obscurely, those trolls or troll will not show in these articles as the truth is contradictory to his or their orchard-sized daily dose of copium and hopium.

Tacoboto3d ago

Or... They're intentionally trolling you guys specifically. Because they know it upsets you so easily.

Name-dropping Orchard, after this many months? How long has it been and he's still in your thoughts?

Elda3d ago (Edited 3d ago )

I'm quite sure the individual is reading these positive comments downvoting & seething at the same time. Edit: It just downvoted my comment...lol!!

Hofstaderman3d ago

No I'm entertained by this individual. I love unhinged people, they are so interesting lol.

repsahj3d ago

Wow! I am super impressed that in just 4 years, ps5 already caught up to the PS4's. Congratulations.

JackBNimble2d ago

That happens when half of your games are cross platform. I'm still waiting to see what the ps5 is capable of, because they sure haven't pushed any limits.

And where are all these ps5 exclusive games?

sagapo3d ago

Not really surprised as Sony barely has any competition at the moment.

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