Epic Games Announces Anti-Apple Fortnite Tournament

Epic Games, maker of Fortnite has announced a Fortnite tournament to take place on August 23rd where winners will go home with anti-Apple prizes. The American video game publisher is currently embroiled in a battle with Apple over its App store policies.

Epic, last week, added a new direct payment system to Fortnite, a move that violates Apple’s policies. Apple in response pulled off Fortnite from the App Store the same day, a move that didn’t go down well with Epic. The Publisher subsequently launched a campaign against Apple by suing it.

For players competing in the tournament, they stand a chance of winning an in-game skin of the evil-looking apple featured in Epic’s “Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite” video (cheekily dubbed the “Tart Tycoon”), a “Free Fortnite” hat, and even non-iOS gaming hardware, including an Alienware laptop, a Galaxy Tab S7, a OnePlus 8 phone, a PlayStation 4 Pro, an Xbox One X, or a Nintendo Switch.

Epic in its blog about the tournament also reminded the iOS players that they won’t be able to play the next season of Fortnite, which is scheduled to begin on August 27th and will likely add significant updates to the game. Epic suggested iOS players consider migrating to other platforms where Fortnite is available before the next season begins (which includes the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, PC, Mac, and Android) and voicing their displeasure by tweeting directly at Apple with the #FreeFortnite hashtag.

Epic earlier this week had filed an injunction to attempt to stop Apple from cutting the studio out of Apple’s developer program, but Apple said it “won’t make an exception” for Epic.