Fortnite is one of the biggest games on the planet, with Apple and Google estimated to have made $360million and $10million respectively before it was blocked.
In their lawsuit filed on Thursday, Epic Games described Apple as a “behemoth seeking to control markets, block competition and stifle innovation”.
They said: “Apple is bigger, more powerful, more entrenched and more pernicious than monopolies of yesteryear. Apple’s size and reach far exceeds that of any technology monopolist in history.”
While the Fortnite makers also accused Google of abandoning their idealistic roots and claimed it is a “broken promise” to say Android is an open ecosystem.
Epic Games said: “In 1998, Google was founded as an exciting young company with a unique motto: ‘Don’t Be Evil’. Twenty-two years later, Google has relegated its motto to nearly an afterthought, and is using its size to do evil upon competitors, innovators, customers, and users in a slew of markets it has grown to monopolise.”