The Epic Video games Retailer has entered the cell area. Beginning at present, Android and iOS customers in Europe can obtain the Epic Video games Retailer for cell, by means of which they’ll entry Fortnite, Rocket League Sideswipe, and the brand-new cell model of Fall Guys. This consists of the primary up to date model of Fortnite for iOS in 4 years, simply in time for the Marvel-centric Absolute Doom–it’s poetic, because the final replace for Fortnite iOS occurred simply earlier than the beginning of the earlier Marvel season throughout Chapter 2.
Except for the free rewards that we’ll get to in a second, the most important merchandise right here is the arrival of the cell model of Fall Guys–it’s the identical sport, now in your cellphone. All of your beauty gadgets carry over, and Fall Guys has full cross-progression and cross-platform play between the cell and console/PC variations.
Android customers might be shifting on from the previous Epic Video games Launcher, which merely allowed you to put in and replace Fortnite and Rocket League Sideswipe. The Epic Video games Retailer for cell is meant instead app retailer, just like the well-established Amazon Appstore for Android, so the concept is that it’s going to additionally supply many video games from different builders and publishers.
Putting in the Epic Recreation Retailer on cell would require you to sideload it, which any Android can do. For iOS customers, solely European telephones will enable this for now, because of the European Union’s Digital Markets Act. Within the US, Epic’s video games, together with Fortnite, will stay off of iOS units for the foreseeable future as a result of court docket battle between Epic and Apple which dominated, amongst different issues, that Apple is free to maintain the writer’s video games off of its platform.
In different territories, such because the UK and Japan, rulings have but to reach in related court docket battles, although talking with Epic on Wednesday, the writer instructed GameSpot it stays hopeful that related choices will win out in these locations, too. For now although, at present’s vital adjustments solely have an effect on gamers in Europe.
Epic is incentivizing gamers to check out the brand new Epic Video games Retailer for cell by providing free unlocks throughout Fortnite, Fall Guys and Rocket League Sideswipe–there’s even a free Fortnite pores and skin concerned.
You can unlock the Katalina pores and skin and her varied accessories–a again bling, a pickaxe, and a wrap–by gaining XP enjoying Fortnite on cell. Fall Guys cell is providing a holographic bean pores and skin to be used in Fall Guys, and a Yeetus Hammer pickaxe for Fortnite–just full 5 ranges, and the items are yours. And enjoying any quantity of Rocket League Sideswipe will internet you a gold-painted Diestro automotive for each Fortnite and common Rocket League. You can earn any of those rewards till November 2.