US judge ‘inclined’ to block Apple’s move to hamper Epic’s Unreal Engine


FILE PHOTO The Apple Inc logo is seen hanging at the entrance to the Apple store on 5th Avenue in Manhattan New York U.S. October 16 2019. REUTERSMike Segar

Rogers said during a hearing that she viewed Epic’s request through “two lenses”. One was with the harm that would come to Epic’s games, and the other was what harm would come to the hundreds of other games that would be hurt if Epic was unable to maintain its Unreal Engine software. — Reuters

A US federal judge on Monday said she was “inclined” to grant Epic Games’ request to block Apple Inc’s move to terminate the Fortnite creator’s developer accounts.

Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers said during a hearing that she viewed Epic’s request through “two lenses”. One was with the harm that would come to Epic’s games, and the other was what harm would come to the hundreds of other games that would be hurt if Epic was unable to maintain its Unreal Engine software.

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