Gears of War developer tells games industry: we must fight Microsoft

Epic Games' Tim Sweeney launches blistering attack on Microsoft, over what he sees as plans to curtail users' freedoms and subvert rights of developers

• Microsoft wants to monopolise games development on PC - and we must fight it

One of the world's biggest and most successful games development studios has launched a stinging attack on Microsoft.

Tim Sweeney, co-founder of Epic Games, creator of the multimillion selling Gears of War series, has accused the Redmond corporation of attempting to monopolise and control the entire PC games market.