The Memphis Grizzlies will have a chance to play for a playoff spot this weekend thanks to a resounding 119-106 win over the Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday afternoon in Orlando.
Jonas Valanciunas dominated as he notched his first career triple-double with 26 points, 19 rebounds, and 12 assists (more than doubling his previous career-high) in 33 minutes, while Rookie of the Year frontrunner Ja Morant chipped in a triple-double of his own with 12 points, 13 assists, and 10 rebounds to pull the young Grizzlies into postseason contention once again.
Despite an 0-4 start to the bubble and the loss of Jaren Jackson Jr. to a knee injury, Memphis managed to make it to the play-in series with a pair of wins in their final four games. Memphis always looked to have the toughest path in terms of schedule, but their finale being against Milwaukee may have actually played into their hands. The Bucks, without a suspended Giannis (who may have sat out, anyway), didn’t play any of their main rotation pieces more than 21 minutes, as Mike Budenholzer went deep into his bench against former assistant Taylor Jenkins.
The most intrigue for the Bucks was Khris Middleton’s 50/40/90 season hanging in the balance, as he needed two more makes than misses to find himself in the exclusive club. The All-Star got off to a sluggish start and finished with just 14 points on 5-for-13 shooting in 21 minutes, falling just shy of shooting 50 percent from the field on the season.
Memphis — and Phoenix, which won its final game to move to 8-0 in the bubble — will now be watching with great interest to see if the Blazers can beat the Nets on Thursday night. A Portland win means they take the 8-seed and Memphis will have to beat them twice this weekend. A Portland loss means Memphis is the 8-seed by virtue of a tiebreaker with Phoenix, and the Suns would need to move to 10-0 in the bubble by beating the Grizzlies twice. The expectation is that Portland will cruise to a win, but Memphis’ opponent today knows all too well what underestimating the shorthanded Nets can lead to.
The other team in the mix was the Spurs, but by virtue of the Suns and Grizzlies winning, and both teams owning a tiebreaker over San Antonio, no matter what they did against Utah their 22-year playoff streak would indeed be coming to an end — thus putting a halt to the longest streak in American pro sports.
The Phoenix Suns capped off their magical run in the NBA’s Orlando Bubble on Thursday afternoon with a 128-102 win over the Dallas Mavericks in their final seeding game. Phoenix was led by Devin Booker’s 27-point, 7-assist, 5-rebound outing, and with the win, they secured the distinction of being the only team to go 8-0 while in the Bubble.
The bad news is that while they took care of business in a way that even the most optimistic Suns fan could not have seen coming, their future is out of their own hands. Due to the 119-106 win by the Memphis Grizzlies over the Giannis Antetokounmpo-less Milwaukee Bucks on Thursday, Phoenix has to sit and wait with bated breath to see what happens in Thursday evening’s game between the scorching hot Portland Trail Blazers and the shorthanded Brooklyn Nets.
The Suns’ postseason prospects are dependent on the Nets knocking off the Blazers. This is a gigantic ask for Brooklyn, which have played well in the Bubble and boast a surprising 5-2 record but are tasked with figuring out a way to slow down Damian Lillard. The Blazers are also 5-2 in the Bubble, thanks in large part to the play of Lillard, who has been out of his mind and is the favorite to be named the MVP of the Bubble’s seeding games — he’s averaging 37 points and 9.3 assists in 41.4 minutes per game in the Bubble while connecting on 41.4 percent of his triples.
Still, anything can happen in that game (as the Bucks learned against Brooklyn recently), which tips off at 9 p.m. EST on TNT. Even if Portland wins, though, Phoenix can leave the Bubble with their heads held high. Again, absolutely no one could have seen them going 8-0 in seeding games. They were the most wonderfully cohesive team in the entire Bubble — Booker looked like he made the leap from an extremely good player on a middling team to a legitimate superstar. Deandre Ayton gave plenty of reminders of his considerable potential. The team’s role players were fantastic, whether it was Mikal Bridges flashing as much potential as any young 3-and-D wing in the league, Cam Johnson showing some scoring punch, Ricky Rubio providing his perpetually-steady hand in the backcourt, Dario Saric shining off the bench, or Cameron Payne providing surprisingly quality minutes after being a last-minute signing.
Two things that Phoenix has been missing for quite some time have been a solid foundation that the team can build on and the kind of stability that you need to build. Monty Williams, in his first year in charge, has done a wonderful job building a culture and getting buy-in from everyone, which includes a front office that hasn’t exactly established itself as one that consistently makes the best decisions. Add in what these players have shown in Orlando and it’s evident that something special is brewing in Phoenix.
It’s a bit unfortunate that we may not get to see if this group can get a shot at the most unlikely of playoff berths. The Suns are extremely fun, play hard, and have a sense of belief about them that would make them an absolutely wonderful squad to watch in the postseason. It all comes down to the Nets, but even if the Blazers come out on top, a mic’d up Ayton put things succinctly at the end of their win against the Mavs.
“A fourth season with all of us?” Ayton asked. “Aye, NBA, we’ll be back next year. We’ll be back. We proved ourselves, though. Put some respect on our names.”
Though summer isn’t technically over until September 22nd, we’re inundated with fall-spiced products beginning mid-August (and sometimes even in July). Honestly, we barely feel like summer even started. We certainly aren’t ready for the explosion of pumpkin spice that’s already filling the shelves at our local grocery stores. From candy to candles, it seems like everything is slathered in this overly-saccharine spiced flavor.
What’s the point of this lead-in?
It’s just to say that here at Uproxx, we prefer our spice to be of the rye variety and pretty much only in whiskey form (although we’ll munch on a loaf of good rye bread, too). Instead of falling for the siren song of pumpkin-spice while we’re still in the dog days of summer, we recommend you get yourself a nice bottle of rye whiskey and watch the sunset with a nice dram. It’s way more satisfying and not nearly so cliche.
To help you out, we decided listed some of our favorite summer-fall transition-y rye expressions below.
Released in May of 2020, this is one of the newest offerings from Jim Beam’s small-batch brands. Previously, the brand released Basil Hayden’s Dark Rye, but this is the first bottle with an age statement. This 80-proof rye was aged for ten years. While its complex and well-balanced, it’s easily sippable and can be enjoyed just as much by seasoned rye fans as those new to the style.
Tasting Notes:
The result of the ten years of maturation is a softening of the spicy rye, giving this offering a much richer, more approachable flavor. Before you even take a sip, you’re met with aromas of peppery rye, subtle toasted oak, and lingering vanilla. The first sip leads you into a symphony of sweet toffee, rich caramel, and warming rye spice. It’s all finished with a flourish of warming cinnamon and smoky wood.
Bottom Line:
This is a great rye for beginners — it’s smoother and more sippable than some of the higher rye offerings.
Old Forester is a huge name in the bourbon world. The brand has been producing high-level bourbon or over 150 years. But, until last spring, it never branched out into rye whiskey. The brand likes to tout itself as the first bourbons to be bottled in a glass bottle. Obviously, they did that more than a century ago, but now they’ve made what they’re referring to as the first-ever “Kentucky straight rye whiskey”.
Tasting Notes:
Made using a recipe from 1940, this rye offering is made up of 65 percent rye, 20 percent malted barley, and 15 percent corn. The result is a whiskey with hints of dried orange peel and caramel on the nose. The first sip yields buttery toffee, subtle banana bread that leads into peppery spice, cinnamon, and various Christmas spices before ending in caramelized sugar and just a hint of rye pepper.
Bottom Line:
This is a complex, high-rye whiskey that should appeal equally to seasoned rye fans and newbies alike.
Back in July, Michter’s released its 10-Year Single Barrel Rye whiskey for 2020. The brand, more known for its bourbon, is only releasing this expression in limited quantities because of lack of supply due to the ongoing pandemic. This limited number of bottles makes this even more highly coveted than it normally would be. This “Kentucky-style” rye is unsurprisingly fairly high in the corn department and was aged for ten years in toasted, charred barrels.
Tasting Notes:
The result is a highly complex, one-of-a-kind bottle that you should definitely seek out while you still can. It all starts with the nose. Aromas of rye bread, charred oak, and rich caramel are highly nuanced. The first sip brings up images of vanilla bean ice cream, spicy cinnamon, subtle spices, and velvety clover honey. The finish is subtly dry with a long-lasting, warming hint of spicy pepper.
Bottom Line:
If you can get your hands on this bottle, definitely don’t waste it by mixing it. You spent enough on this whiskey that it should be sipped slowly on a cool evening.
In the 1800s there were two different versions of rye. The first was Pennsylvania Rye and the other was Maryland Rye. Pikesville is a Maryland-style Rye — a style known for its much milder, smoother whiskeys. Originally Pikesville was produced in the late 1800s until prohibition saw the closure of the distillery. After prohibition was repealed, Pikesville was the only brand of Maryland Rye to remain. Years later, this iconic, 110 proof, 6-year-old whiskey is now made in Kentucky by Heaven Hill.
Tasting Notes:
For a rye whiskey with only 51% rye content, this is a highly complex, well-rounded whiskey. Before you even take a sip, you’re met with just a whiff of peppery rye, dried fruits, and smoked cinnamon. The first sip adds caramelized sugar, vanilla, and dried orange peel into the equation. It all ends with toasted oak and malty chocolate and a pleasing hit of heat.
Bottom Line:
While this is definitely a great sipper, you can feel comfortable mixing this whiskey into your favorite rye-based cocktail.
Sagamore Spirits was officially launched back in 2016 and was named for a nearby thoroughbred horse racing farm. In the few years since, it has gained quite a following for its Maryland-style rye. Like many rye brands, Sagamore sources multiple rye mash bills from MGP before tirelessly blending them together to create the flavor they’re looking for. One mash bill is 95 percent rye, while the two others included are each 51 percent rye. They don’t let anyone in on the actual whiskeys they use and the amounts of each, but that’s all inside baseball anyway.
Tasting Notes:
While this whiskey definitely isn’t overpowered by its rye presence, peppery spice is present on the first nosing. This is followed by candied cherries, rich vanilla, and spicy cinnamon. The first sip brings robust, charred oak, dried orange peel, and sweet caramel. The finish is littered with hints of pepper and warming heat.
Bottom Line:
Pour a glass, drop in an ice cube, and sit back and sip on this high-rye whiskey while you sit near a large body of water.
Similar to Jim Beam’s small batch series, Russell’s Reserve (named for Jimmy Russell) is Wild Turkey’s higher-end brand. Well known for its bourbon, drinkers shouldn’t sleep on this 90-proof, small-batch rye that was aged for six years. It won a gold medal at the 2015 San Francisco World Spirits Competition for a reason. It’s known for its use of a single rye mashbill and the fact that it’s the only rye the brand makes with an age statement.
Tasting Notes:
Before taking a sip, it’s best to take in some of the whiskey’s aromas. The first sniff brings forth sticky toffee pudding, toasted wood, and just a wisp of peppery spice. Once you take a sip, you’ll be treated to rich vanilla, subtle cloves, cinnamon, and cooking spices along with honey sweetness. It all ends with a crescendo of chocolate truffles, caramel, and a pleasing hint of peppery heat.
Bottom Line:
Don’t waste this gem by using it as a mixer. It’s perfect for slow sipping while you grill up a nice, meaty steak.
As calls for racial justice escalated around the world this summer, one UK-based company that made statements regarding its role in systemic racism was Lloyd’s Of London, described as an insurance and reinsurance market formed by the Lloyd’s Act 1871. The market began as a shop where mariners and merchants would convene to secure insurance — including for slaves and slave ships. In June, Lloyd’s acknowledged these ties to the global slave trade and promised to make recompense. A month later, they received a list of demands from none other than T.I., whose plan was to hold the company accountable to its commitment to change.
Firing off — and sharing on his social media — an open letter to Lloyd’s with a list of ways to make restoration for its past actions, T.I. told the company “on behalf of ‘The Descendants’ of African Slaves,” that “we demand equitable financial consideration for the ‘shameful role’ they played in the Trans Atlantic Slave Trade.” Now, a little under a month removed from sending his open letter, T.I.’s Chief of Staff has received a response, sharing it via email with Uproxx.
“We cannot unfortunately undo the past,” it reads. “But we would like to play an active role in trying to level the playing field for Black and Minority Ethnic people in today’s world. On 10 June we announced an initial action plan that focuses on education, research and significant funding for charities and other organisations that promote opportunity and inclusion for Black and Minority Ethnic colleagues. There is much more to do and we will work with our Cultural Advisory Group to determine our longer term plans.”
The letter promises to update Lloyd’s websites as plans develop and offers links to the market’s action plan and advisory group.
Tom Cruise appears to have made it is mission to run in as many flicks as possible, including the Mission: Impossible franchise as seen above. Each Cruise sprint may be different from the last, although they all carry the same ferocity, and if you were wondering whether he’s got a rule about his running, you’d be correct. This story ends up being more flattering to Cruise than what Thandie Newton had to say aboutM:I 2, but yeah, Tom still comes off as totally intense. No surprise there.
Annabelle Wallis, who starred alongside Cruise in 2017’s The Mummy, spoke with Hollywood Reporter about her new movie, The Silencing (co-starring Nikolaj Coster-Waldau). In the process, Wallis (of course) discussed how often she’s asked about The Mummy, and she revealed how exactly she got Cruise to break his on-screen running rule — he prefers to go it alone — and allow her to sprint alongside him. This sounds like a lot of work, but her mission went as planned:
“I got to run on-screen with him, but he told me no at first. He said, ‘Nobody runs on-screen [with me],’ and I said, ‘But I’m a really good runner. So, I would time my treadmill so that he’d walk in and see me run. And then he added all these running scenes. So, that was it. It was, like, better than an Oscar. I was so happy! I was so happy that I got to run on-screen with Tom Cruise.”
And Wallis did a fine job at the task. Look at her go.
For the first time in history, an American scored a goal in the quarterfinals of the UEFA Champions League. And thanks to Tyler Adams’ 88th minute strike, RB Leipzig picked up a 2-1 win over Spanish giants Atletico Madrid, securing a spot in the tournament’s semifinals for the first time in club history.
Leipzig and Atleti squared off in Portugal on Thursday with the winner punching their ticket to take on Paris Saint-Germain next week. It was a cagey affair — something that is oftentimes the case when Atleti plays and was exacerbated by the fact that Leipzig’s star forward Timo Werner has left the club due to his move to Chelsea — and through the first half, neither side was able to break the deadlock.
That changed early on in the second half thanks to a lovely team goal finished by Dani Olmo. After 16 passes, Leipzig’s Marcel Sabitzer chipped a ball into the compact Atleti defense. Olmo found a bit of daylight, got his head to the ball, and beat Jan Oblak.
— Champions League on CBS Sports (@UCLonCBSSports) August 13, 2020
The Spanish side kept looking for ways to break down Leipzig’s defense. They eventually broke through when Lukas Klostermann recklessly challenged João Felix and conceded a penalty. Felix, the club’s world-record signing and one of the brightest young talents on the planet, coolly stepped up and slotted his penalty past Péter Gulácsi, who guessed right but couldn’t get a hand to the ball.
João Félix levels it!
The Portuguese star buries the penalty to bring Atletico Madrid even in Lisbon. pic.twitter.com/6GVg3PTeGM
— Champions League on CBS Sports (@UCLonCBSSports) August 13, 2020
A moment later, the man of the hour came on the pitch. Adams replaced Konrad Laimer in Leipzig’s midfield, giving his side fresh legs and a jolt of energy as the match entered its final chapter. His moment came in the 88th minute, when the former New York Red Bulls standout received a ball from his fullback, former NYCFC player Angeliño, and let one rip from the top of the box.
While it looked like the ball might have gone wide, it took a fortunate deflection off of Atleti’s Stefan Savic, and there was simply nothing that Oblak could do as the ball fell into the back of the net.
— Champions League on CBS Sports (@UCLonCBSSports) August 13, 2020
Atleti did everything it could in the game’s final minutes, but it could not find the equalizer. It was a gigantic moment for Adams — a 21-year-old New York native who joined Leipzig in 2019 and had never scored for the club before — and thanks to it, Leipzig is one match away from the Champions League final. All that stands in their way is French champions PSG, which came from behind with two late goals to knock off Atalanta on Thursday.
I was tempted to open this one up with a pithy, timely Shakespeare quote. You know the one from Romeo And Juliet: “What’s in a name?” But truthfully, it felt a little too on-the-nose — and for lack of a better term, cute — for a discussion that frankly, we should be done having by now. With rap Twitter in a tizzy over so many aspects of the 2020 XXL Freshman Class list, it’s a bit exhausting that one of the biggest names in hip-hop today is one that stands out so glaringly in the context of a year of long-overdue racial reckonings.
Yet, here we are. The tide of public opinion on Atlanta rapper Mulatto stands at a tipping point, incidentally just as the artist herself is at the most critical point of her career. She’s on the cusp of releasing her major-label debut after a half-decade of independent grind and a near-immaculate rollout. That process saw her collaborate with one of her hometown’s most iconic heroes on a remake of one of his most iconic songs. She’s also garnering unprecedented attention as one of the 12 artists selected by XXL for its annually anticipated list of artists expected to break out. Plus, she’s in the most talked about video of the year, courtesy of freak rap pioneer Cardi B.
But instead of celebrating a triumphant introduction to the world outside of rap’s ever-insurgent online underground, she’s just as likely to be fielding apt complaints about her chosen alias. Born Alyssa Michelle Stephens, “Mulatto” isn’t even her first pass at a suitable stage name. Originally appearing in 2016 on Lifetime reality series The Rap Game as Miss Mulatto, she cut down her rap name to make it more marketable, because the “Miss” was obviously the part that so desperately needed fixing.
Before I get accused of needlessly dissing or “hating on” an emerging talent, let me be clear. I absolutely love Alyssa Stephens, the rapper, and I have since she was on Jermaine Dupri’s teenie-bopper-centric competition show. She has a real gift for clever turns of phrase (as illustrated by the title of her recently-released single “Muwop”) and her swag is just about unmatched by most of the onslaught of new rappers that have appeared on the scene since 2016. But I can’t fully support her because of how truly problematic her name is — and how easily the controversy could have been foreseen and avoided.
For those who need it, here’s a really quick history lesson. The term “mulatto” is a reference to a person of mixed Black and white parentage. It’s extremely f*cking offensive because the term was originally used for livestock, specifically the hybrid offspring of a horse and a donkey. It’s a really rude way of calling someone “mixed” deriving from an era when Black people were literally treated as livestock and a white parent would not even acknowledge their mixed child, instead discarding them to the harsh life of a slave. Their own kids.
Mulatto’s rap name is obviously a reference to her mixed ancestry (her father is Black, her mother is white) and there’s nothing wrong with being proud of where you come from. But to dub yourself a term that categorizes you as less-than-human is kind of a big fail. Mulatto’s name also evokes ghosts of the colorism problem. When it’s combined with her typical, pretty girl boast-rapping, it prompts a discomfort that stems from 200 years of systemic inequality filtered through the lens of light skin privilege. After all, those owners may not have exactly freed their lighter-skinned children from slavery, but they historically privileged them with jobs working inside the house and sometimes even education, which they denied their darker field hands.
It’s not like there aren’t plenty of highly successful rappers with mixed heritage who’ve had to grapple with questions of identity and colorism; just look at Drake, Doja Cat, J. Cole, or Saweetie, who are all tremendous stars who’ve dealt with hiccups in their presentation along the way. But how you talk about these things is important, too. Logic’s constant harping on his “AfricAryan” background (dear God, just look at that abominable portmanteau) earned him so much scorn from the rap establishment, he quit rap this year to go play video games for a living.
That’s not what we want to happen to Big Latto (an alternative that has been proposed by fans, riffing on the title of a 2019 EP). She’s at the outset of what could very well be a strong career thanks to a cameo in Cardi B’s “WAP” video, a wealth of genuine talent, and a business savvy that led her to turn down the recording contract offered by JD for winning the first season of The Rap Game in lieu of building a following organically. But that savvy should have alerted her to the potential pitfalls her nom de plume could lay in her path to stardom.
It’s not like she’s the first or only rap star to give herself a problematic pen name to start out with. Rich Brian, the Indonesian born performer who helped launch LA-based, all-Asian label 88rising to fame, started out his career as Rich Chigga — a play on a racial slur referring to Asian people who “act Black” (I shouldn’t even need to explain this one for you). The ever-controversial Noname cut her own pseudonym down from Noname Gypsy, citing ignorance of “gypsy’s” origin as a pejorative for the nomadic Romani people. Some Roma believe the name connotes criminality — a stereotype exploited by Nazis during World War II as justification for a systematic genocide of anywhere from 220,000 and 1,500,000 people.
Both the aforementioned rappers were smart enough to change their names after taking flak for them at first and both are ostensibly fine in terms of public regard (Noname’s various run-ins with other artists’ fanbases notwithstanding). It would probably behoove Mulatto to take her own fans’ advice and make a name change before the quiet rumble of dissent becomes an all-out cacophony of complaints. Big Latto deserves to be the star her unofficial nickname implies. If the thing that winds up holding her back is the way she chooses to introduce herself to potential fans and business partners, she’ll have no one to blame but herself.
Thursday represents the last meaningful day of the NBA’s seeding round, as the playoff brackets in the East and West are set with the exception of this weekend’s Western Conference play-in series for the 8-seed, which will be decided once the Blazers play at 9 p.m. ET.
The playoffs will begin on Monday, with the game schedule still to be announced, but that doesn’t mean the networks that will be bringing that coverage can’t start getting ready. On Thursday night, ESPN debuted its first playoff promo, featuring Michael B. Jordan narrating their “Rise Together” video (with Logic’s “Celebration” as the background music), highlighting the players efforts on and off the court during the bubble restart in both pushing for a championship run and also maintaining focus on the social justice movement, with videos of players protesting alongside them playing in the bubble.
“We rise together, for this generation and the next,” Jordan says. “On the court and on the streets. For your city and for your team. For everything it took to get to this moment. We rise together, because together we can win it all.”
Throughout the restart players and coaches have looked to ensure the Black Lives Matter movement and pushes for social justice and reform remain at the forefront of the conversation, and the league’s TV partners have tried to do the same in their promo videos — TNT’s opening night video was narrated by Meek Mill speaking on criminal justice reform.
No list of the best Chappelle’s Show sketches would be complete without “Clayton Bigsby,” a satirical Frontline investigation about a blind white supremacist who doesn’t realize that he’s Black. He was a fictional character created and portrayed by Dave Chappelle, but on Thursday, a real-life Clayton went viral.
As a member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans group, Daniel Sims, a Black man, is opposed to the removal of Confederate symbols from outside the Marshall County courthouse in Albertville, Alabama. “Regardless of how the next person feels, I’m not going to take my flag down. If I got anything to do with it, ain’t no monument going to come down,” he told WHNT. Sims said he was raised in a white household, like Bigsby, and he “grew up in an all-white neighborhood. My grandfather was white and he was the main one that fought in this war here and he’s taught me everything I know.”
Pro-removal group Say Their Names Alabama was also on site, because the “rebel flag does not represent all Americans so it should not be at a place where all Americans in the county come, which is the courthouse. So, it is out of place and it has been out of place since they placed it here in 2005,” leader Unique Dunston said. Sims responded:
“It may make my blood boil if they just come up here and feel like they can just tear it down. I don’t see me still living if they do that right there. That monument ain’t hurting nobody. That monument ain’t killing a soul. It’s ain’t talking bad to nobody. It’s ain’t even racist.”
It’s one thing to read his quotes; it’s another to watch the footage.
The latest battle to be waged in Fortnite is against Apple. The popular battle royale game is officially being used in a fight between Epic Games and Apple over the use of the company’s pay services for in-app purchases.
Thursday brought word that Apple had banned Fortnite from the app store hours after Epic allowed a payment method for purchases in the game that didn’t use Apple’s mandated Apple Pay method.
wow, Epic Games has added its own payments scheme to Fortnite on iOS. It bypasses Apple’s IAP system and it’s cheaper. Not sure how Epic is able to do this, but it’s good news for Fortnite fans! https://t.co/wChrUiQeJspic.twitter.com/FaQEzOICWM
The issue at heart here is that Apple requires apps used on its iPhone and other devices to use the Apple App store, which takes a considerable cut of purchases made through it. Epic’s beef is one others have bristled at in the past, but few companies have the considerable resources to fight it — mainly, using its own payment service to offer better prices to customers, until it gets banned.
On Thursday afternoon, Fortnite teased a “Ninteen Eightyfortnite” event that many quickly tied to the news that Epic had circumvented Apple Pay and the game was banned from Apple’s app store.
Fortnite Party Royale will premiere a new short: Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite. Join us at 4PM ET. pic.twitter.com/BWvndK3gDt
The event was a reference to Apple’s infamous 1984-themed commercial for the Macintosh computer, widely regarded as one of the most influential ads of all time.
Fortnite‘s Twitter account soon shared a legal filing Epic had made against Apple and their store rules.
Epic Games has filed legal papers in response to Apple, read more here: https://t.co/c4sgvxQUvb
And then the event itself started which was, indeed, a parody of the 1984 commercial using a Fortnite character in the place of the woman running to the screen to smash it with a unicorn-themed hammer throw.
“Epic has had apps on the App Store for a decade, and have benefited from the App Store ecosystem — including its tools, testing, and distribution that Apple provides to all developers. Epic agreed to the App Store terms and guidelines freely and we’re glad they’ve built such a successful business on the App Store. The fact that their business interests now lead them to push for a special arrangement does not change the fact that these guidelines create a level playing field for all developers and make the store safe for all users.”
This beef seems far from settled, and Epic and its CEO have escalated what was a war of words with some pretty clear actions. Whether Apple relents or finds a way to work this out is unclear right now, but Apple will miss out on a lot of V Bucks profits while they fight it out.
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