Update 12:10 pm: As predicted (or even invited), Apple has kicked Fortnite off the App Store. Our story is updated below.
Updated 12:40 pm: Epic Games filed a legal complaint in the northern district of California, and is holding an event in Fortnite tonight recalling Apple’s historic 1984 Macintosh ad.
Fortnite may not be burning up the App Store charts like it used to be, but it’s still one of the most popular games of all time, with players in the tens of millions. We don’t know how many of them play on mobile devices, but Epic Games (Fortnite’s creator) is willing to gamble that entire market to defy Apple and Google’s app store rules in an escalation of an ongoing, industry-wide antitrust battle.
