{"id":390031,"date":"2026-03-17T18:15:10","date_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:15:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/390031\/"},"modified":"2026-03-17T18:15:10","modified_gmt":"2026-03-17T18:15:10","slug":"fortnite-will-return-to-googles-play-store-globally-on-march-19","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/390031\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite will return to Google’s Play Store globally on March 19"},"content":{"rendered":"

Now that Epic Games and Google have made up \u2014 or at least found a way to resolve their long-running disputes<\/a> \u2014 everyone with a compatible Android device can get back to the business of playing Fortnite. The game will return to the Play Store globally on March 19, the same day that the next Fortnite season goes live. It previously dropped back onto the Play Store<\/a> in the US in December.<\/p>\n

Google pulled Fortnite from the Play Store<\/a> back in 2020 after Epic tried to bypass the 30 percent cut<\/a> of all in-app purchases that the storefront too. Apple did the same thing<\/a> with the App Store version of Fortnite. Epic swiftly sued Google<\/a> and Apple<\/a>, kickstarting years-long legal battles with both companies.<\/p>\n

The dispute with Apple ultimately led to the company having to open up the App Store in certain markets, including the US and EU. Fortnite returned to the App Store in the EU in 2024<\/a> and in the US last year<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Google and Epic reached a settlement<\/a> in November. Earlier this month, Google announced that it was lowering the cut<\/a> it takes of in-app payments from 30 percent to between 10 and 20 percent. At that time, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney (who reportedly agreed<\/a> not to publicly talk smack about the Play Store until 2032 as part of the settlement) confirmed that Fortnite would return to Google’s mobile storefront.<\/p>\n

Epic recently announced<\/a> a price increase for the in-game V-Bucks currency. It also confirmed that Fortnite Save the World \u2014 the game’s original mode \u2014 is going free-to-play in April<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Now that Epic Games and Google have made up \u2014 or at least found a way to resolve…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":390032,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_share_on_mastodon":"0"},"categories":[74],"tags":[8779,311,18,82676,7705,823,19,17,19509,82],"class_list":["post-390031","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-app-store","tag-apple","tag-eire","tag-epic-games","tag-fortnite","tag-google","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-play-store","tag-technology"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/pubeurope.com\/@ie\/116245884317830721","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390031","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=390031"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/390031\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/390032"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=390031"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=390031"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.europesays.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=390031"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}