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Yesterday, Samsung launched the Galaxy Note 9, choosing to focus on a wide variety of features for an upgrade instead of the device’s overall external design. The company looked to target two birds with one stone as it upgraded the S-Pen and made sure that Fortnite for Android became an exclusive for the Note 9. The latter bit was a direct appeal to gamers and Epic Games’ partnership with Samsung will not go down with Google.

When Epic Games launched Fortnite on Android earlier this week, it did so in an unprecedented manner. Instead of making the game available through Google’s Play Store, it chose to place it directly on its website – effectively bypassing the Play Store and ensuring that no share of the revenue that Epic will earn from Fortnite goes to Google.