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The new Epic Rewards program permanently gives users 20 percent back on purchases in Fortnite, Rocket League, and Fall Guys when they use Epic's own payment system. The company is also raising Epic Rewards from 5 percent to 20 percent on all other Epic Games Store purchases using the Epic payment system until August 31st.
The offer is valid on all platforms where Epic has a presence, including iOS, Android, PC, and the web. Note that when buying games on the Epic Games Store, you aren't buying the game itself but rather a license to access and play the game. This is true of other digital gaming platforms as well, including market leader Steam.
The initiative comes in the wake of a legal ruling in the US, which prohibits Apple from preventing apps from linking to external payment solutions. A similar regulatory framework—the Digital Markets Act—was previously introduced in the EU in 2024, requiring large tech companies like Apple to allow alternative app stores and payment systems.
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 Apple is planning to allow users to natively control iPhones, iPads, and other devices using brain signals later this year, The Wall Street Journal reports.
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 Commercial fusion power plants may be cheaper and easier to build thanks to a breakthrough by TAE Technologies that allows reactors to generate their own containment fields without the need for massive magnetic coils and other systems.
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 Google today shared details on some of the new ways that it is incorporating artificial intelligence into its search products in order to combat online scams.
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In April, a US District Court ruled that Google monopolized open-web digital ad markets. Now, the tech giant and the US Justice Department are at odds about what Google must do about it. The DOJ argues that Google should sell AdX, or Ad Exchange, a platform for publishers to sell unused ad space in real-time. It also wants the company to offload Google Ad Manager, previously DoubleClick for Publishers (Google DFP).
The DOJ claims that both platforms minimize competition and contribute to Google's monopoly in the advertising space. The executive department has also pushed Google to sell Chrome due to a separate ruling that the company held a monopoly on search engines.
Unsurprisingly, Google has no interest in getting rid of its products — it also plans to appeal the Court's ruling on Google Ad Manager. Google has announced "a proposal that fully addresses the Court's findings." These changes include allowing all rival publisher ad servers to make real-time bids on AdX and letting publishers set different price floors for each bidder.
"In contrast, the DOJ is seeking remedies that go significantly beyond the Court's narrow ruling by forcing a divestiture of Google Ad Manager," Google stated in its announcement. "This would risk breaking a tool advertisers use to connect with publishers and efficiently reach their customers, and that app and video publishers use to monetize their content — businesses that aren't even part of the narrow market of 'open web displ
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