According to reports, Google has spent hundreds of millions of dollars to stop rival app stores from being launched.

Reuters reported that a recently released copy of a lawsuit that Fortnite creator Epic Games initially brought against Google in 2020 shows that the firm paid Activision Blizzard about $360 million over a three-year period.

Google also agreed to pay Riot Games, a League of Legends developer owned by Tencent, $30 million over the course of a year.

In a list of 24 companies that were allegedly compensated in an effort to discourage competition for its Play Store, the lawsuit accuses Google of placing anti-competitive restrictions on mobile device marketplaces. Nintendo and Ubisoft are also named in the lawsuit.

According to reports, the agreements with developers included money for YouTube uploads as well as credits for Google ads and cloud services.

According to Reuters, Google claimed that these agreements to appease developers reflect healthy competition.

With the help of its proposed $68.7 billion acquisition of Activision Blizzard, Microsoft recently revealed plans to develop a “next generation game store” to compete with Apple and Google.

The lawsuit also stated that in order to eliminate competition from the creator of Fortnite, Google considered making an acquisition bid for Epic Games.

It claimed that Google and Tencent, which holds a 40% stake in Epic, talked about working together to gain some control over the business or possibly plot a hostile takeover.

In order to avoid paying platform holder fees, Epic decided to distribute Fortnite for Android outside of the Play Store. As a result, Google removed the game from its platform. According to Epic, Google felt threatened.

Currently, Epic is contesting the outcome of a comparable antitrust lawsuit it filed against Apple. Nine of the ten counts that the Fortnite creator had brought against the iPhone company were dismissed by the judge last year.