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Epic Games 'tricked' customers into unwanted purchases: FTC. Fortnite, best known for its Battle Royale mode in which up to 100 players can fight it out to the last one standing, is free to ...
The Federal Trade Commission has announced it will issue refunds to nearly 630,000 Fortnite players after ruling that the maker of the popular video game, Epic Games, duped people “into making ...
The game's design nudged people into racking up unauthorized charges, the FTC said. Here's how customers will be refunded. Fortnite creator Epic Games sends customers $72 million refund.
In the summer of 2020, Houseparty partnered with Mattel to add Magic 8 Ball and the card game, Uno to the app. The app contains other popular games such as Quick Draw, Chips & Guac and trivia games that can be played with friends in a video chat. [31] [32] It has been called the "virtual living room" of apps by The New Yorker. [33]
Epic planned to offer one free game every two weeks through 2019; [4] this was increased to one free game every week in June 2019, [5] and on weeks where the free game had a mature content rating and thus locked out if parental controls are enabled, Epic offered a second free game not so rated. [6]
Similarly, in 2019, the FTC settled with video game publisher, Epic Games, over allegations that the company misled consumers about the cost of in-app purchases in addition to using dark patterns that encourage unintended in-game purchases in its popular game, Fortnite. As part of the settlement, Epic Games agreed to pay $275 million in refunds ...
Epic Games has used the names Potomac Computer Systems, Epic MegaGames, and Epic Games; the name given for the company is the one used at the time of a game's release. Many of the games under the Epic MegaGames brand were released as a set of separate episodes, which were purchasable and playable separately or as a group.
The marketplace app, called "Epic Games Store", will be pre-installed on all new compatible Android devices operating on the Telefonica network across regions including Spain, UK, Germany, Mexico ...