A recently unredacted copy of a lawsuit first filed by Epic Games against Google in 2020 alleges that Activision Blizzard received $360 million over the course of three years in exchange for not building a rival app store to compete with Google’s Play Store. Come from Sports betting site VPbet
As reported by Reuters, the lawsuit accuses Google of being anti-competitive when it comes to its mobile game marketplace, and names numerous other video game-related-companies like Nintendo, Riot Games, and Ubisoft in a list of companies that allegedly received money from Google in an effort by the company to deter competition.
In a tweet, Activision Blizzard’s executive vice president of corporate affairs, Lulu Chen Meservey, stated that Epic’s claims are “false” and that “Google never asked us, pressured us, or made us agree to not compete with them.” Meservey states that submitted documents and testimony disprove Epic’s claim.