https://wccftech.com/epic-apple-restraining-order-unreal-engine-development/

For the past week or so we’ve all been watching the escalating feud between Apple and Epic Games with bated breath, but there’s one group that probably isn’t enjoying all the drama – Unreal Engine developers. For those who haven’t been keeping up with the bitter back-and-forth, last Thursday Epic added a direct pay option to Fortnite, which caused Apple to kick the battle royale game from the App Store. Epic responded to that with an antitrust suit with potentially huge implications. Not about to take that attack laying down, Apple threatened to terminate all of Epic’s iOS dev accounts.

For the sake of this story, it’s the latter that concerns us, as Epic isn’t just the developer of Fortnite – they’re also the company behind Unreal Engine, one of the most popular third-party game development tools. Many wondered how Apple possibly revoking Epic’s dev tools would effect Unreal Engine, and in a new Washington Post article, Epic confirms it would essentially mean the end of Unreal development on iOS. Epic would not be able to update Unreal Engine for iOS, meaning they wouldn’t be able to add any new features or fix any problems that might arise from future iOS updates. In other words, it wouldn’t just be future games that would be affected, current Unreal-powered iOS titles like Mortal Kombat, Life is Strange, or Hello Neighbor could end up being irrevocably broken.