{"id":229829,"date":"2026-01-26T17:02:41","date_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:02:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/epic-games-google-reveal-800-million-deal-amid-lawsuit"},"modified":"2026-01-26T17:02:41","modified_gmt":"2026-01-26T23:02:41","slug":"epic-games-google-reveal-800-million-deal-amid-lawsuit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/01\/epic-games-google-reveal-800-million-deal-amid-lawsuit","title":{"rendered":"Epic Games &amp; Google Reveal $800 Million Deal Amid Lawsuit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/epic-games-google-reveal-800-million-deal-amid-lawsuit2.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>During a recent hearing in San Francisco, Epic\u2019s CEO Tim Sweeney revealed that the agreement is related to Fortnite\u2019s metaverse: \u201cEpic\u2019s technology is used by many companies in the space Google is operating in to train their products, so the ability for Google to use the Unreal Engine more fullsome\u2026 sorry, I\u2019m blowing this confidentiality.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>In this partnership, Epic will spend $800 million to buy some unannounced services from Google. However, this is not a joint product made by the companies. \u201cThis is Google and Epic each separately building product lines,\u201d Sweeney said.<\/p>\n<p>Sweeney doesn\u2019t see anything wrong with paying Google \u201cto encourage much more robust competition than they\u2019ve allowed in the past,\u201d he said. \u201cWe view this as a significant transfer of value from Epic to Google.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>During a recent hearing in San Francisco, Epic\u2019s CEO Tim Sweeney revealed that the agreement is related to Fortnite\u2019s metaverse: \u201cEpic\u2019s technology is used by many companies in the space Google is operating in to train their products, so the ability for Google to use the Unreal Engine more fullsome\u2026 sorry, I\u2019m blowing this confidentiality.\u201d [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":427,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-229829","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-habitats"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229829","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/427"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=229829"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/229829\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=229829"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=229829"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=229829"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}