Okay fine, let's talk about Apple again

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This week’s stories:

New game digest: further Fortnite drama plus Rainbow Six, The Division, Persona 5, Kingdom Hearts and more

This week's round-up of new game news, fresh releases and more.

Epic says Apple has “blocked” the release of Fortnite on iOS

Apple's App Review appears to have rejected Epic's latest build of Fortnite, according to the battle royale game's X account.

Mobile leads again at Take-Two, thanks to Zynga hits Color Block Jam and Match Factory

Take-Two earned over half its revenue from mobile in the last full financial year, and hailed two Zynga hits for driving the growth.

Is this how Apple plans to fight alternative payments in the US?

The App Store shows warnings that discourage users from downloading apps that use alternative payments in the EU. Is that what’s about to happen in the US, too?

Ares Interactive: are Niccolo De Masi and Mike DeLaet quietly building Glu 2.0?

The storied ex-Glu execs appear to be getting the old band back together, with the help of friends from Scopely, Kabam and Gree.

Data digest: Apple’s $10bn US App Store cut, Kingshot’s rapid rise, Sega-Rovio and Playtika numbers, more

This week's need-to-know numbers in snackable form.

Inside Supercell’s big Squad Busters reboot

Game lead Johnathan Rowlands and marketing boss Rob Lowe explain the thinking behind Squad Busters 2.0 – and the mistakes that got us to this point.

April’s top grossing mobile games

Honor of Kings is back on top, Candy Crush posts an all-time high, Pokémon TCG Pocket dips while Honkai: Star Rail surges. And what’s going on with Genshin Impact?!

April’s top mobile game downloads

Block Blast continues to tear it up while a cosy capybara-based cooking game gatecrashes the top ten. Plus: did Dream Games' massive Royal Kingdom ad campaign cause a big install spike? (Yes, kind of)

The soft launch games you need to know about

Take a peek at the games in testing from Supercell, Playrix, EA, Ubisoft, Rovio, Miniclip and more.

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Okay fine, let's talk about Apple again

Is Apple going to try to fix the crisis consuming the App Store? If it’s got any sense, it’ll make drastic changes at WWDC next month.

Apple’s App Store crisis seems to just get worse with every Tim Sweeney tweet.

You know it’s bad when longtime Apple apologist John Gruber spends over an hour on The Verge’s Decoder podcast criticising the company, having also written posts with titles like ‘Something is rotten in the state of Cupertino’ recently.

I’ll put it bluntly: the company needs to get a fucking grip before it gets any worse. But how?