Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney was asking Apple to open its phones to other app stores as early as 2015, according to new emails made public as part of the companies’ antitrust trial. Under the ...

The Epic Store drama began several years ago when the company defied Google and Apple rules about accepting outside payments ...

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney said during his address at today's Unreal Fest in Seattle that while there's still uncertainty about what exactly the metaverse is, the continuing growth of Fornite ...

Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney on Monday portrayed Google as a ruthless bully that resorts to shady tactics to protect a predatory payment system. His portrayal came in testimony in an antitrust trial ...

Google and Apple are among Trump's new tech industry admirers: Both are donating $1 million to the inauguration, with Apple CEO Tim Cook reportedly making the contribution personally. Sweeney and ...

Epic Games’ chief executive, Tim Sweeney, in 2021. The company sued Google in 2020 after Google removed Fortnite from its Play Store. Philip Pacheco/Getty Images ...

Sweeney said we will need a lot of technologies to create the metaverse. Fortnite can fit 100 players into a game battle now, but it can’t fit a million or tens of millions into the same simulation.

Before Sweeney did that, leading to Apple's tossing Fortnite out of its store, he wrote an email at 2 a.m. to tech executives including Apple CEO Tim Cook. He detailed what Epic was about to do ...

Sweeney’s testimony also revealed just how in the red his company’s nascent Epic Games Store is. The video game company has poured hundreds of millions of dollars into the store since it was ...

Mr. Sweeney, who grew up in Potomac, Md., and whose father worked for the Defense Mapping Agency, got into technology as a child. At age 9, he learned to code on an Apple II computer.

Tim Sweeney, the CEO of Epic Games, tells Business Insider that the success of "Fortnite" shows that there's no such thing as a "mobile gamer" or a "console gamer" anymore — there's just gamers.

Tim Sweeney, CEO and co-founder of Fortnite maker Epic Games, took the stage at the DICE Summit in Las Vegas on Wednesday to discuss video games' growing status as a social media platform.