Alphabet’s (GOOG) Google said in court that Epic Games was offered $147M to launch its popular video game “Fortnite” on the Google Play Store for Android, The Verge’s Adi Robertson reports. Purnima Kochikar, Google’s VP of Play partnerships, said the arrangement was approved and presented to the game maker but not accepted, and would have seen the money provided over a three-year period of “incremental funding” ending in 2021, the author notes. Investors in Epic Games include Tencent (TCEHY), Disney (DIS), KKR (KKR), and Sony (SONY).
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