Google executives defended its internal campaign “Project Hug,” which enticed 20 developers to not create app stores competitive with Google Play according to Epic Games, in an ongoing trial ...

That changes today with the announcement that Google is going to pilot a program allowing developers to use the billing system of their choice in addition to the Play Store’s.

In recently unredacted legal filings, the game developer Epic said Google has a secret program to keep major developers on its Play Store.

Google’s Project Hug reportedly paid Android game developers hundreds of millions of dollars in secret deals to keep their games in the Play Store, Epic’s unredacted antitrust complaint claims.