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Epic Games is the video game and software company behind Fortnite and the Unreal Engine, and a lead plaintiff in antitrust suits against Apple and Google.
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Capcom plans to rebuild RE Engine through a project called REX so AI can cut development time, programmer Satoshi Ishida told a company conference. For studios writing their own AI rules, the useful part is Capcom's split between AI in the tools and AI in the shipped game.
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The proposal landed the same day Apple asked a judge to order settlement talks Epic had already refused, and the same day the Supreme Court refused to pause the case. Any app with a web checkout now has a number.
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A San Francisco compliance hearing showed Google carrying rival app stores it had made effectively unsearchable. The judge answered with a testable threshold and a one-week deadline.
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The Core Technology Fee's 50 cents per install becomes a 5 percent Core Technology Commission on October 1, and link-out commission drops to 15 percent.
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Musical.ly paid $5.7mn in 2019 over the same statute. The DOJ's complaint treats registration-flow design as the violation, which makes age-gating a documented enforcement target.
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Bloomberg's Mark Gurman reports that Ternus and Cue want more from a store he estimates at $30bn a year, at a moment when Appfigures has US commission revenue falling and the Supreme Court has yet to rule.
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The iPhone 18 Pro's Reference Image mode binds a photo to the sensor that captured it, then has Apple's cloud develop and sign the finished file. Apple's published account protects the original capture and stops at the edit.
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Apple's zero commission on external purchase links exists because a district court held the company in civil contempt, and the case that could remove that finding is now at the Supreme Court with the federal government on Apple's side.
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The judicial review turns on qualifying worldwide revenue, the figure behind Ofcom's annual fee and a fine cap of 10 percent of global turnover. The substantive hearing is set for October 2026, after the first invoices are expected.
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The justices agreed to review the contempt finding that followed Apple's compliance plan, the plan that allowed outside payment links and charged up to 27% on purchases made through them.
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The claim treats App Tracking Transparency as an attribution problem for UK developers rather than a privacy setting, and it needs the tribunal to accept that Apple's own ad business never cleared the same bar.
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The practical result of Monday's reshuffle is that store rules, developer pricing and antitrust concessions report up through the executive whose division books the store's revenue. Developers are negotiating with a different desk now.
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Phil Schiller's exit moves app approvals and revenue-share policy out of marketing, where they sat since 2015, and into the services organisation that books the money, with Carson Oliver running the store day to day.
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Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers handed Apple its antitrust win in Epic, then took the commission apart under California law. Rob Bonta's coalition is arguing in front of that record.
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An Epic developer told a Discord AMA the native Linux launcher lands after the store overhaul preview. A separate security engineering role aimed at Linux anti-cheat is the harder signal.
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A filing quoted by the Financial Times says Apple "may not earn a commission at all" on external purchases. That puts a documented floor under developer models that never had one.
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Apple proposed commissions of up to 15% on purchases made outside the App Store, then asked for a settlement conference. Epic says a conference would not help, so the rate stays in litigation.
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Google's Developer Verification pulls APK drops, F-Droid builds and internal company tools into one registry, with Brazil, Indonesia, Singapore and Thailand first, according to a dev.to account.
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