Fortnite, Epic Games' wildly popular multiplayer shooter game, is available again on Apple's App Store in the U.S. from Tuesday, capping a ban of nearly five years and marking a major win for the video game company.

Epic Games has been waiting for Apple to approve Fortnite for the US iOS App Store for nearly a week, and now Epic CEO Tim Sweeney is using X to try and put pressure on Apple. On Thursday, he highlighted examples of Fortnite lookalikes that are currently on the App Store and made a direct appeal to Apple CEO Tim Cook.

(Reuters) - Epic Games' wildly popular multiplayer shooter game "Fortnite" is available again on Apple's (AAPL.O) App Store in the U.S. from Tuesday, capping a ban of nearly five years and marking a major win for the video game company.