The Epic Games video game finally arrives at the Google digital store after both parties have reached a commercial agreement.
Fortnite is now available for download on Android devices through the Google Play Store. After years away from the Mountain View company's digital store, today's most popular video game officially arrives as one more app and without restrictions.
In this way, any user with an Android phone and operating system 7.1 onwards can download Fortnite and log in with their account as normal. Epic Games allows, for the first time, that the players of the Google operating system do not have to access the external portal of the company to download the APK (the executable file of the legal application), which makes it easier for the most used store in the planet now also welcomes this free phenomenon with integrated purchases (free to play).
18 months of pulse between Epic and Google
"After 18 months where Fortnite has operated on Android away from the Google Play Store, we have reached a basic understanding: Google considers downloading software outside of Google Play as a disadvantage," they begin by saying in the statement signed by Epic Games and who Polygon was able to access. The American company, associated with Tencent Holdings and owner of the Unreal Engine technology, justifies the launch of Fortnite on Google Play as a way of not straining the relationship of a Google concerned about possible security breaches derived from the download of content and executables outside your own store.
In any case, Fortnite is still available from the Epic Games app. Epic Games' attempt to keep its most successful video game only available in its own app from Android devices ends like this, after a year and a half, with this new agreement.
- You can download Fortnite for Android devices from this link; the base weight is 45 MB, although there are additional data packet downloads.
"Fortnite has reached Google Play! Form a squad and compete to be the last one standing in Battle Royale, or use your imagination to build the Fortnite of your dreams in Creative mode, ”you can read in this store.
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