Fortnite Will Return To Google's Play Store Globally On March 19

Now that Epic Games and Google person made up — aliases astatine slightest recovered a measurement to resolve their long-running disputes — everyone pinch a compatible Android instrumentality tin get backmost to nan business of playing Fortnite. The crippled will return to nan Play Store globally connected March 19, nan aforesaid time that nan adjacent Fortnite season goes live. It antecedently dropped backmost onto nan Play Store successful nan US successful December.

Google pulled Fortnite from nan Play Store backmost successful 2020 aft Epic tried to bypass nan 30 percent cut of each in-app purchases that nan storefront too. Apple did nan aforesaid thing pinch nan App Store type of Fortnite. Epic swiftly sued Google and Apple, kickstarting years-long ineligible battles pinch some companies.

The conflict pinch Apple yet led to nan institution having to unfastened up nan App Store successful definite markets, including nan US and EU. Fortnite returned to nan App Store in nan EU successful 2024 and in nan US past year.

Google and Epic reached a settlement successful November. Earlier this month, Google announced that it was lowering nan cut it takes of in-app payments from 30 percent to betwixt 10 and 20 percent. At that time, Epic CEO Tim Sweeney (who reportedly agreed not to publically talk smack astir nan Play Store until 2032 arsenic portion of nan settlement) confirmed that Fortnite would return to Google's mobile storefront.

Epic recently announced a value summation for nan in-game V-Bucks currency. It besides confirmed that Fortnite Save nan World — nan game's original mode — is going free-to-play successful April.