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Geek Girl Authority
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Sifu Archives
Categories Select Category Games GGA Columns Movies Stuff We Like The Daily Bugle TV & Streaming This week, get Deliver At All Costs, Gigapocalypse, and Sifu for free in the Epic Games Store. Read on for all the details. Games Stuff We Like Video Games 'February is always a bad month for TV sports,' Hunter S. Thompson wrote. 'Football is gone, basketball is plodding along ...
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Deliver At All Costs Archives
Cassie Holguin This week, get Deliver At All Costs, Gigapocalypse, and Sifu for free in the Epic Games Store. Read on for all the details.
Geek Girl Authority
10 hours ago
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GIGAPOCALYPSE Is Free in the Mobile Epic Games Store
The Mobile Epic Games Store is now giving away free game titles every week; all you have to do is remember to collect them. This week, embrace your inner Kaijū monster and destroy everything you see in Gigapocalypse. Gigapocalypse. Act quickly because this loot is only free via the Mobile Epic Games Store for a limited time. For a while now, the Epic Games Store has been giving gamers free PC titles and in-game loot every single week. Now, mobile gamers can get in on the freebie action using the Mobile Epic Games Store app. All you have to do is download the app, log into your Epic Games account (or create a new one), and get the goods. Remembering to claim your freebies is the hardest part. Luckily, Geek Girl Authority will be there to remind you every week. RELATED: Love mobile games? Check out our Mobile Game Monday adventures Gigapocalypse Gigapocalypse (2021) is a 2D side-scrolling action game developed by Goody Gameworks and published by Headup Games. Play as a customizable Kaijū monster and level everything in sight. Choose from nine giga monsters, each with unique abilities, skill trees, mutations, and manifold skins. Then, rampage your way through six detailed stages set in Earth's past, present, and future. From a Wild West town to a medieval kingdom, each level features themed buildings and enemies to destroy. It isn't all about destruction. Complete quests and care for your Kaijū in Tamagotchi-style minigames. Find secrets to upgrade your monster and their home. Unlock cute but deadly pets that will join you on your journey. Gigapocalypse is an homage to the Kaijū classics, such as Godzilla , King Kong , and Rampage. So expect fast-paced pixelated arcade action accompanied by a heavy metal soundtrack. RELATED: May's Most Anticipated Video Games Gigapocalypse is free in the Mobile Epic Games Store until May 29 at 10 am ET. Mobile Game Monday: SAGRADA
Yahoo
11 hours ago
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US judge finds Apple to be in violation of antitrust order
A federal judge found Apple (AAPL) in violation of a 2021 court order demanding the tech giant to enable broader competition for app developers and payment methods on its App Store. Yahoo Finance senior legal correspondent Alexis Keenan explains US District Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers' ruling stemming from a 2021 antitrust case brought forth against Apple by Epic Games. She goes into detail on the judge's original injunction and accusations of an Apple executive lying under oath. Catch Yahoo Finance break down Apple's fiscal second quarter earnings results. To watch more expert insights and analysis on the latest market action, check out more Market Domination Overtime here. Apple shares under pressure after reported second-quarter earnings and aside from trade headwinds, the company also facing a recent legal setback. Apple's App store in the hot seat for its alleged anti-competitive conduct. Yahoo finances Alexis Keenan joins us with more, and just this week, before the earnings report, there was a judge's strong words to Apple. Very strong words. Now the judge in California district court, a federal judge, she held Apple in contempt and ordered it to comply with an injunction that she issued back in 2021, but it became effective in January because the Supreme Court on appeal from the case which stemmed from Epic Games's accusations against Apple that they were using anti-competitive tactics. The Supreme Court decided not to take up and review that case, so that put the injunction into effect, and in essence, the judge has said based on a response to epics complaints that Apple is not complying with the injunction and what the injunction said is that Apple must allow app developers to allow its customers to go outside the App store and link out to pay for in-app purchases. The judge and Epic said Apple did not do that, and so that ruling that judgment, that it actually largely favored Apple, but this part, this injunction really is a threat to Apple's App Store revenues totaling in 2024, $92 billion. Now part of that comes from those fees that Apple collects every time a customer makes an in-app purchase, 15 to 30%, depending on how large the business is. Now Apple did respond to the injunction, but the way they responded is they allowed the developers to go in and put those apps in, but then they assess a 27% fee for those out of app store purchases and the judge said, no, that does not comply with the spirit of this injunction, holding Apple in contempt saying that one of its executives lied under oath, said Tim Cook made bad decisions in ignoring this injunction, and said effective immediately, Apple will no longer be able to impede their customers in this way. And so Alexis, so in terms of timeline with this, what happens next? What happens next is Apple has to hop to, immediately are the judge's words. They must now have these links, and so what that does is theoretically, right? It reduces Apple's revenues in the App store. Now Apple does not give us data. They don't parse out exactly line items for how much these commissions, these 15 to 30% commissions make for the company, but we know that they're a substantial part of that revenue chunk. Uh Apple here uh not responding to Yahoo finances request for comment on this, maybe they will in the future. Um, but right now, they're going to have to get compliant with this order. It says immediate. And they're also going to have to potentially face some a criminal investigation. The judge has referred it over to California's prosecutors to look into whether they should be held in criminal contempt. This is a civil contempt. Uh, so there can be fines. There can be other consequences down the road. So certainly not a good day for Apple. All right, Alexis. Thank you. Error in retrieving data Sign in to access your portfolio Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data Error in retrieving data
Indian Express
13 hours ago
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Apple rejected over 1.9 million apps submitted to App Store in 2024
Apple has said it has prevented more than $2 billion in potentially fraudulent transactions on the App Store in 2024. In its fifth annual App Store fraud analysis report, the tech giant also said it has stopped a total of $9 billion fraudulent transactions via the app marketplace over the last five years. The report comes nearly a week after the return of Epic Games' Fortnite on the App Store, marking the potential end of a protracted legal battle between the iPhone-maker and the video game company. Epic Games had accused Apple of violating antitrust law by taking a 30 per cent cut of in-app payment transactions and introducing anti-steering restrictions that prohibited developers from telling users that they can pay for services outside the App Store ecosystem. Apple executives were on the verge of facing criminal contempt proceedings last month, after a US federal court said it had fallen short of complying with a previous injunction order dictating that the company must allow developers to direct users to external payment options. In this context, Apple has continued to position its App Store as the safer and more secure payment processing system to discourage developers from using third-party payment processors. 'In-app purchase on the App Store offers users a secure and trusted environment designed to protect privacy, prevent fraud, and make managing purchases simple. With built-in tools to view, modify, or cancel subscriptions; purchase history; and support for refunds, users stay in control every step of the way,' Apple said in the fraud analysis report. The company further said it blocked nearly 4.6 million attempts to 'sideload' or install apps from outside the App Store or third-party marketplaces approved by Apple. Apple said it has taken comprehensive steps to tackle App Store threats ranging from deceptive apps designed to steal personal data of users to fraudulent payment schemes. In 2024, Apple blocked nearly two million 'risky apps' submitted to the App Store, which sees an average of 813 million visitors every week. More than 146,000 App Store developer accounts were terminated last year. Additionally, Apple said it blocked over 10,000 illegitimate apps that acted as storefronts to access pornography apps, gambling apps, malware-loaded apps, and pirated versions of legitimate App Store apps. As part of its crackdown on fake reviews on the App Store, Apple said it removed more than 143 million fraudulent ratings and reviews. It also took down over 7,400 apps from App Store charts and prevented nearly 9,500 deceptive apps from appearing in App Store search results. The company further said it deactivated 129 million customer accounts that were spamming or manipulating ratings and reviews on the App Store. Out of 7.7 million apps submitted and reviewed by Apple, over 1.9 million apps were rejected for failing to meet the company's standards regarding security and other aspects. Among the submitted apps that did not make it on the App Store, 37,000 were flagged for fraudulent activity, 17,000 for bait-and-switch maneuvers, and 400,000 for privacy violations. App Store's app review process involves vetting by a human reviewer as well as usage of automated tools capable of detecting and taking action against potentially harmful apps. 'App Review rejects any potentially malicious apps it identifies during review, and the team's investigation into one fraudulent app often results in the takedown of several others linked to the same problematic developer,' the report read.
