Fortnite’s Tim Sweeney Comes Out Swinging at Apple, Google

With Apple Inc. and Google set to face an antitrust hearing on Capitol Hill Wednesday, Tim Sweeney, chief executive officer of Epic Games, is accusing them of being a “duopoly.”

Epic, which makes the popular Fortnite game, says the two companies’ dominant app stores charge excessively high fees to list games. Apple and Google take 30% of revenue from paid apps that use their stores. But the costs of operating an app store amount to just a small fraction of that amount, Sweeney said in an interview with Emily Chang on Bloomberg Television. Epic’s own store charges a ...