Epic claims in a massive lawsuit that Google paid Activision Blizzard $360 million to prevent a competing Play Store from launching.

Epic claims in a massive lawsuit that Google paid Activision Blizzard $360 million to prevent a competing Play Store from launching.

According to the complaint, Google understood that contracting with Activision would cause the publisher to “abandon its aspirations to build a competitive app store.” “Activision denies this assertion. “Google never begged, pushed, or forced us to agree not to compete with Google Play,” a spokeswoman for Activision told Reuters. “Epic’s claims are ridiculous.”