Epic was offered $127 million to launch Fortnite on Google Play, but the developer’s rejection caused a risk of “contagion,” according to details in the trial.
Google executives defended its internal campaign “ Project Hug ,” which enticed 20 developers to not create app store s competitive with Google Play according to Epic Games , in an ongoing trial Thursday. Purnima Kochikar, Google ’s vice president of play, took the stand Thursday to defend why Project Hug wasn’t a bribe in the trial of Epic Games v. Google where the search giant is being sued for anti-competitive practices on its app store .
Google boasted internally about steering Riot Games away from launching an in-house app store with $10 million of marketing, according to documents revealed in the case Thursday. “We pulled all stops to get Riot to stop their inhouse ‘app store’ efforts and bring their billion dollar League of Legends franchise and other mobile games to Play ” said Kochikar in an internal document.
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