Apple restored the popular game Fortnite to the App Store in the United States on Tuesday, nearly five years after it was kicked out of the store and its developer sued the tech giant in an antitrust case.

The reinstatement of Fortnite, a multiplayer video game with millions of daily users around the world, is the result of recent twists in a long-running federal court battle.

Last month, a judge with the U.S. District Court for the Northern District of California ruled that Apple cannot reject apps for including links to outside payment methods that enable developers to avoid the App Store’s 30% commission.

Apple told the game’s developer, Epic Games, days later that it had the contractual right to reject an app from the store, court documents show. But Epic said Apple was circumventin

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