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Richard Priday

Fortnite banned from Samsung phones due to sideloading restrictions — but Epic Games has a solution

Fortnite running on Android phone.

Fortnite may be about to disappear from another mobile storefront as developer Epic Games has announced it'll no longer be selling its games via the Samsung Galaxy Store.

As an Epic Games press release explains, the popular battle royale game and other titles from the Epic library will leave "mobile stores that serve as rent collectors without competing robustly and serving all developers fairly." This includes the Galaxy Store, as Epic explains it, due to two factors — the fallout of the Epic v Google lawsuit in which Samsung received alleged anti-competitive proposals from Google,  and Samsung's Auto Blocker tool.

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