Epic’s refusal to pay Apple for in-app purchases has kept Fortnite off the App Store for quite a while now, leaving iPhone and iPad users without a stable way to access the battle royale game. That’s finally changed, as of May 4 — Xbox has added Fortnite to its collection of free games accessible on the Xbox Cloud Gaming platform.
Xbox Cloud Gaming is, for the uninitiated, a way in which anyone at all can access Xbox games (a curated catalog of them) without actually owning a console. Players can stream these games right from Xbox’s servers to essentially any internet-connected device with a web browser. Some titles are free, while others require a Game Pass subscription to play.
