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Disney invested over one billion dollars in Unreal to create apersistent universe
Disney and Fortnite maker Epic Games have announced a partnership to create a “persistent universe” that will offer “world-class games experience and interoperating with Fortnite”. Disney said it’s investing $1.5 billion in an equity stake in Epic Games. The “persistent universe” will offer a “multitude of opportunities” for consumers to play, shop and engage with…
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The FTC settled with the maker of ‘Fortnite’ for $520 million.
Epic Games will pay over $500 million to settle FTC’s complaints of children’s privacy and methods which tricked players into making purchases. The FTC said the default settings of the game tricked users including teenagers and children. The FTC added that Fortnite’s counterintuitive, inconsistent and confusing button configuration led players to incur unwanted charges based…