Google aimed to buy Epic Games during Fortnite tussle: Report

As they bitterly fought over the popular Fortnite game on Play Store, Google considered buying ‘some or all’ of its developer Epic Games, the media reported.

According to newly unsealed court filings seen by The Verge, Google allegedly offered a “special deal” to launch Fortnite back on Android Store.

Epic CEO Tim Sweeney tweeted on Friday that this was “unbeknownst to us at the time, and because of the court’s protective order we’re just finding out now about Google’s consideration of buying Epic to shut down our efforts to compete with Google Play”.

“Whether this would have been a negotiation to buy Epic or some sort of hostile takeover attempt is unclear.