Epic Games founder and CEO. Doesn’t know when Attack on Titan is returning to the Fortnite item shop.
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The internet feels increasingly broken. News sites are paywalled or account walled, Reddit is nag walled, Google search spams ads and SEO to the point of uselessness, and now Twitter is account walled. Web browsing feels horrible now.
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In rocketry, this is a rare event that might happen once or twice in an engineer's career. The great thing about being a game developer is that you can experience similar things every day just in the normal course of writing and debugging your code.
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After years of pretending to be Democrats, Big Tech leaders are now pretending to be Republicans, in hopes of currying favor with the new administration. Beware of the scummy monopoly campaign to vilify competition law as they rip off consumers and crush competitors.
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A random comment from Hacker News that captures the dystopian state of the online world all too accurately.
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We will return Fortnite to the US iOS App Store next week.
Epic puts forth a peace proposal: If Apple extends the court's friction-free, Apple-tax-free framework worldwide, we'll return Fortnite to the App Store worldwide and drop current and future litigation on the topic.
NO FEES on web transactions. Game over for the Apple Tax.
Apple’s 15-30% junk fees are now just as dead here in the United States of America as they are in Europe under the Digital Markets Act. Unlawful here, unlawful there.
4 years 4 months 17 days.
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Today, Apple said Epic is seeking a special deal, but that's not true. We're fighting for open platforms and policy changes equally benefiting all developers. And it'll be a hell of a fight!
Here Apple speaks of a level playing field. To me, this means: All iOS developers are free to process payments directly, all users are free to install software from any source. In this endeavor, Epic won’t seek nor accept a special deal just for ourselves.
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Total game changer for people who live or adventure outside of cities and towns. And, it's space rather than a bunch of cell towers, so soon the whole world will have coverage.
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Today: Lost a court case, climbed a mountain, read hundreds of pages of legal papers, wrote some code. Just as determined as ever to fight on until there is genuine developer and consumer freedom in software, and fair competition in each mobile platform software component.
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This is Unreal Engine's default texture. I imported it into Unreal Engine 1 in 1995 while I was developing on a 90 MHz Pentium. It's still there and shows up when a programmer forgets to specify a texture.
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NO FEES on web transactions. Game over for the Apple Tax.
Apple’s 15-30% junk fees are now just as dead here in the United States of America as they are in Europe under the Digital Markets Act. Unlawful here, unlawful there.
4 years 4 months 17 days.
Northern District of California court has ruled on the Epic v Apple anti-steering injunction’s contempt of court proceeding! Details incoming!
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Thanks to everyone who supported the effort to open up mobile competition and #FreeFortnite from the very beginning. And thanks to all of the folks who initially sided with Apple then later came around to the winning side, supporting app developer rights and consumer rights.
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Google using its dominant Windows browser market share anticompetitively to shore up its ad monopoly by blocking ad blockers -
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Twitter only verifying elites and friends of Twitter employees was wrong. Democratizing verification for $8 was good. Treating everyone the same is principled. What kind of company sells a product but gives it to elites for free? That's just weird thing to do.
I don’t want to be verified unless the verification process is opened up to everyone on equal terms. Right now it’s a system for doling our favors to friends of Twitter and for using revocation to punish people Twitter doesn’t like.
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Two facts about Apple:
1) Apple is #3 in the world in game revenue
2) Apple doesn’t make games
Opinion | Apple's image is angelic, but it's actually the devil nbcnews.com/think/opinion/ap… via @NBCNewsTHINK #FreeFortnite #Apple #videogames
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we back fam
Fortnite is BACK on the App Store in the U.S. on iPhones and iPads... and on the Epic Games Store and AltStore in the E.U! It’ll show up in Search soon!
Get Fortnite on the App Store in the U.S. ➡️ fn.gg/US-AppStore
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Update: Apple has taken down Fort Battle Royale Epic Shoot. Players looking for a fake adware version of Fortnite on the App Store should instead try Epic Survival Battle Royale 3D Clash Squad Battle Royale 3D, approved by Apple.
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The Epic vs Apple trial has now concluded! I won’t be commenting before the verdict is delivered. Thanks to everyone whose efforts made this possible, and to Popeyes for building a fine restaurant next door to the Oakland federal courthouse.
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The Unreal Engine 5 demo on PlayStation 5 was the culmination of years of discussions between Sony and Epic on future graphics and storage architectures.
The Nanite and Lumen tech powering it will be fully supported on both PS5 and Xbox Series X and will be awesome on both.
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Hey kids! Looking to play Fortnite? Try this crypto and stock trading app instead. Rated for ages 4+. Courtesy of Apple App Store ads.
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I don’t want to be verified unless the verification process is opened up to everyone on equal terms. Right now it’s a system for doling our favors to friends of Twitter and for using revocation to punish people Twitter doesn’t like.
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The servers right now:
Hey everyone, we encountered an unexpected issue during our maintenance and we need to extend downtime at least 8 additional hours.
We apologize for making everyone wait longer than usual to drop into Chapter 5 Season 2 of Battle Royale. The team is working through this as quickly as possible, and we’ll provide another update when we have more info.
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Grok 4 feels like Artificial General Intelligence to me. It is clearly not just constructing statistically likely connections, but is drawing fairly deep insights on problems it hasn’t seen before, in ways I haven’t seen elsewhere. Here’s an example: grok.com/share/bGVnYWN5_b97c…
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At the most basic level, we’re fighting for the freedom of people who bought smartphones to install apps from sources of their choosing, the freedom for creators of apps to distribute them as they choose, and the freedom of both groups to do business directly.
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That's it. I've reached the breaking point. I'm switching to Mastodon and moving to Canada and installing Linux and going vegan and buying an electric car (but not a Tesla) and committing myself to our lord and savior Gabe Newell.
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Does anyone have a business contact at Algeria Telecom, the state operated ISP? Fortnite is unreachable to their customers, and we’ve been trying for 2 weeks to make contact unsuccessfully.
Day2 of trying to make @HYPEX @FortniteStatus know about our fortnite problem 🙏
Its been 20 days, Algerian players 🇩🇿can’t play fortnite 🥲
We need to use VPN and its not accessible for everyone cuz console players can’t use it .
We truly need helps #FixFortniteAlgeria 🙏
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Thanks Algeria Telecomm and thanks to all of the folks who helped establish contact.
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Update: We need to release a weekly Fortnite update with new content this Friday, and all platforms must update simultaneously. So we have pulled the previous Fortnite version submitted to Apple App Review last Friday, and we have submitted a new version for review.
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There is a good programming principle stated here: Don’t write functions for code one can write inline as a simple expression using well-known operations. It’s much easier to read code that uses a small number of common primitives than to remember 1000’s of helper functions.
Today, Linus Torvalds told a Google engineer that his code (updating RISC-V support in the Linux kernel) is “garbage” which “makes the world actively a worse place to live”.
Adding that the Google engineer’s code needs to “get bent”.
As you might have guessed, Torvalds has rejected that code submission.
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I was mistaken. Apple is indeed willing to sell out the security and privacy of users anywhere in the world at the request of their government. Perhaps by compromising user rights, they hope develop a “special relationship” that gives them a free pass on antitrust law.
Apple is removing end-to-encryption features from the UK after government compelled it to add backdoors 9to5mac.com/2025/02/21/apple… by @bzamayo
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This problem is much bigger than just Grok! My Apple ][ computer often created harmful content like this. If you typed PRINT “YOU SHOULD EAT ROCKS”, the computer would advise you to eat rocks, which is dangerous from a culinary perspective.
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Hi Tim. How about if you let our mutual customers access Fortnite? Just a thought.
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ChatGPT to me seems to weld an English professor’s writing skills to an encyclopedia’s knowledge base and a kindergartener’s reasoning ability, producing impressive and highly polished nonsense. The screen is on - at 8K 120Hz - but nobody’s at the keyboard.
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Epic Games Store will take 0% on the first $1,000,000 of payments we process per game per year (vs 15% for Apple), and 12% after that (vs 30% for Apple).
Next month, we launch EGS Webshops for out-of-app purchases, as an alternative to in-app purchases.
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Doom: A portal into hell has opened up, now kill monsters.
Zoom: A portal into hell has opened up, now hold meetings.
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Whoa @FitzyLeaks is currently ratioing the App Store ad for PUBG Mobile! If he pulls this off, will Apple plead for Fortnite to come back with Epic direct payment intact? Only time will tell.
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Monumental news everyone! Fortnite is now available to play FOR FREE streaming to web browsers on iPhone, iPad, and Android via Xbox Cloud. No subscription required, no 30% Apple tax.
news.xbox.com/en-us/2022/05/…
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Hey @AppStore can we get the real Fortnite up pls?
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Epic Games Store will welcome games that make use of blockchain tech provided they follow the relevant laws, disclose their terms, and are age-rated by an appropriate group. Though Epic's not using crypto in our games, we welcome innovation in the areas of technology and finance.
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Travis Scott is welcome in Fortnite. I’m just not in the loop on item shop rotations so I don’t know what’s coming when, or what specific agreements with celebrities and brands affect the timing of those decisions.
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Apple lied. Apple spent a year telling the world, the court, and the press they’d "welcome Epic’s return to the App Store if they agree to play by the same rules as everyone else". Epic agreed, and now Apple has reneged in another abuse of its monopoly power over a billion users.
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Big news! The Epic Games Store and other app stores are coming to the Google Play Store in 2025 in the USA - without Google's scare screens and Google's 30% app tax - thanks to victory in Epic v Google.
theverge.com/policy/2024/10/…
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So I busted out my IBM PC keyboard model M. I wrote ZZT and Unreal Engine 1 on this thing. With apologies to Moore's Law, I gotta say - 1984 was peak keyboard. The code just types out better with these keys.
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Sorry folks, the team is working super hard, but the Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) has been delayed to late January 2023.
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The story so far: In 1970, Intel invented the microprocessor. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move.
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Seeing Apple and Google in the top of the game revenue charts, making tens of billion of dollars every year, is disgusting. THEY DON’T MAKE GAMES! They just place an unwanted and useless toll both in front of games made by others.
Here's a quick look at the top 10 ranking for 2021, as per Microsoft's internal documents.
(Note that Xbox is ahead of Nintendo by revenue)
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The US government shouldn’t hold stocks. Doing so will lead it to refrain from ENFORCING THE LAW against high-market-cap companies, because it will hurt their stock price. It’s the path to crony capitalism.
If there’s a surplus, pay down debt or return it to taxpayers.
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IGN says Epic is “Weaponizing Fortnite Fans”. But the armament being offered is simply an idea: That the maker of a smartphone does not have the right to dictate the terms of our lives and our businesses.
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Let’s try searching for Netflix on the App Store. Whoops, Netflix isn’t the top result, because Apple sold top result to TikTok. At least all the text is super readable - except the low contrast white-on-blue-white “Ad” label.
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While waiting for Apple to #FreeFortnite on iOS and Mac, here’s another awesome battle royale game powered by Unreal Engine!
A new era of @PUBGMOBILE is coming, featuring an overhaul of the Erangel map and a bold new look.
Check out the exclusive sneak peek here. apple.co/2D6DLWR
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Twitter ProTip: Spring clean your followers list by saying what you really think!
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Played the Star Wars event with some friends. In Fortnite. On iOS. Life is good.
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Now Apple is demanding a 30% cut of all Patreon DONATIONS. Apple must be stopped. The digital world cannot go on like this.
If you use the @Patreon app on iOS and decide to donate to your favorite artist or developer Apple will get 30% of your donation. Because... you know... because??? Eh... because...???
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Indeed Unreal Engine is moving to Left-Up-Forward coordinates everywhere, starting with UEFN, and coming to UE5-6 in an incrementally-adoptable way through UI settings and C++ helper functions/macros to ease the transition.
This will align Unreal with Y-Up, right handed standards of USD and glTF.
Why? Because future 3d tools and ecosystems will be increasingly interoperable and standards-based. There are a lot of missing standards we’ll need to propose, and Team Unreal will be far more successful proposing new things if we adopt and add to existing standards and conventions.
The USD-glTF-Maya-Houdini quadrant is the center of mass for complex code-art-pipeline tooling that is highly sensitive to coordinates. (Flipping coordinates when exporting from AutoCAD or Blender is easy enough; changing a movie vfx pipeline is not).
Coordinates based on project settings sound like a have-it-your-way compromise but are a combinatorial mess when projects are a mix of code modules and content packages from many independent authors.
The best time to make this change would have been 1995, but I believe the second best time is now with the launch of Scene Graph in UEFN.
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People in this #BlockTheBlue pressure campaign are losers and goons. They're the cool kids from junior high who worked to exclude we nerds from cool kid events, plus the losers who joined in to gain cred. The elite-only verification system sucked, been criticizing it since 2018.
I don’t want to be verified unless the verification process is opened up to everyone on equal terms. Right now it’s a system for doling our favors to friends of Twitter and for using revocation to punish people Twitter doesn’t like.
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I apologize for writing a complicated program.
I didn't have time to write a simple one.
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The DMA went through its first major challenge with Apple banning Epic Games Sweden from competing with the App Store, and the DMA just had its first major victory. Following a swift inquiry by the European Commission, Apple notified the Commission and Epic that it would relent and restore our access to bring back Fortnite and launch Epic Games Store in Europe under the DMA law.
A big win for European rule of law, for the European Commision, and for the freedom of developers worldwide to speak up. #FreeFortnite!
epicgames.com/site/en-US/new…
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Victory over Google! After 4 weeks of detailed court testimony, the California jury found against the Google Play monopoly on all counts. The Court’s work on remedies will start in January. Thanks for everyone’s support and faith! Free Fortnite!
Epic v Google antitrust trial begins Monday morning. See y’all on the other side!
nytimes.com/2023/11/05/busin…
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There isn't a Fortnite cryptocurrency. The Twitter accounts promoting such a thing are a scam. Epic's lawyers are on it. Also, shame on the cryptocurrency marketplaces that enable this kind of thing.
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The anonymous quote is BS. The speed of Disney and Epic collaborations like Darth Vader has been awesome and is around 10x the ordinary speed of media company dealings in this business. We even provided a statement to the writer of this article saying so, but they chose not to print it.
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Amazing move by Valve! A handheld PC/console hybrid running the SteamOS fork of Arch Linux, and it’s an open platform where users are free to install software or their choosing - including Windows and other stores.
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The first Halo redefined console gaming in 2001, and over the generations Halo has pushed the state of the art forward with amazing gameplay, story, and music. Epic is honored that the Halo Studios team has chosen our tools to help with their future work!
Halo is entering a new dawn. All future games will use Unreal Engine, and multiple projects are in development. Find out more in our exclusive interview: news.xbox.com/en-us/2024/10/…
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Apple's statement is misleading. You can read my email in Apple's filing, which is publicly available. I specifically said in Epic's request to the Apple execs, "We hope that Apple will also make these options equally available to all iOS developers..."
Apple has fired back at Epic Games in a new legal filing saying that Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney asked for a special deal courtlistener.com/recap/gov.…
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I love X’s new 3-tab feed.
The first tab is titled “For you”. It contains stuff befitting Obi Wan Kenobi’s description of Mos Eisley spaceport.
The second tab contains posts from everyone I follow.
The third tab solely contains posts from a guy named greg.
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Yes, absolutely. That will never happen on my watch as the founder, CEO, and controlling shareholder.
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Epic supports the rights of Fortnite players and creators to speak about politics and human rights.
theverge.com/2019/10/9/20906…
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While gamers are waiting for Fortnite to return to iOS following the Court’s ruling, developers are already signing up to link out from their iOS games to Epic Games Store Webshops. 0% fee on first $1M revenue (versus 15% Apple fee), 12% after that (Apple charges 30%).
We’ve got exciting updates coming in June!
➡️ 0% store rev share on payments we process for the first $1M in revenue per app, per year
➡️ Epic Webshops, enabling devs to launch their own webshops hosted by the Epic Games Store
Learn more: epic.gm/june-updates-2025
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The metaverse is dead! Let's organize an online wake so that we 600,000,000 monthly active users in Fortnite, Minecraft, Roblox, PUBG Mobile, Sandbox, and VRChat can mourn its passing together in real-time 3D.
businessinsider.com/metavers…
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Thanks to everyone who is speaking up against Apple blocking Epic from competing with their App Store.
On PC, we’ve served over 270,000,000 customers, so the victims of Apple’s competition bans include hundreds of millions of future customers on iOS who are deprived of better deals on games and better cross-platform gaming and social features, as well as hundreds of thousands of developers who are stuck under Apple’s tax regime.
Competition is a fragile thing. Apple can crush it not only by banning it outright as it did pre-DMA, but also by selectively blocking specific competitors like us, and by sowing fear among all developers who’d like to partner with us to reach users, and by users who fear buying apps on a third-party store Apple can block at any time.
Apple is doing everything they can to sow fear so that, even if they’re forced to end this blockade, every developer will know Apple can crush any of us on a whim, and therefore that competition is futile. It’s a sad slope for the world’s most respected company to be slipping down, but slipping it is, and it’s a long way down.
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