All the Easter eggs hidden in 'Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite,' the clever video Epic Games made to taunt Apple amid their heated battle over App Store rules (AAPL)

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• Epic Games, the company behind "Fortnite," released a video on Thursday that parodies Apple's famous "1984" television ad.
• Titled "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite," the Epic Games video contains multiple Easter eggs taking swipes at Apple, the company's rigid App Store rules and at CEO Tim Cook. Details in the video also reveal Epic's carefully orchestrated plan to escalate its battle with Apple.
• Epic also filed suit against Apple on Thursday, alleging that the iPhone-maker engaged in monopolistic practices on the App Store. 
• Apple yanked "Fortnite" from the App Store Thursday after Epic began offering players the option the circumvent the App Store when making in-app purchases. 
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Epic Games just declared war on Apple with a spoof of the company's most iconic ad — and it's chock-full of clever Easter eggs. 

The video game company released a video on Thursday titled "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite," a play on Apple's "1984" television ad which aired during the Super Bowl that year, and which was itself based on George Orwell's dystopian novel, "Nineteen Eighty-Four." In Epic's video, a unicorn-pickaxe-wielding heroine races through a hall full of drone-like viewers, unable to tear their eyes away from an apple-headed dictator onscreen. 

"Today we celebrate the anniversary of the platform unification directives," the dictator says. "For years, they have given us their songs, their labor, their dreams. In exchange, we have taken our tribute, our profits, our control. This power is ours and ours alone. We shall prevail." 

The video is a parody of Apple's own ad, but it's also a jab at Apple's controversial App Store policies. Epic announced on Thursday that it had started offering players the option to pay Epic directly for in-game purchases rather than going through the App Store, which charges a 30% commission on app purchases. As a result, Apple pulled "Fortnite" from the App Store, leading Epic to release the video and sue Apple for what it alleges are monopolistic business practices. 

While "Nineteen Eighty-Fortnite" is a light-hearted mockery in the spirit of Epic's cartoonish yet hyper-popular video game, it also contains multiple Easter eggs and hidden meanings. Take a look at what we've noticed so far. 

The dictator in the video has the head of an apple with a bite taken out of it, much like Apple's logo. In this case, the apple appears to be rotten — there's a worm sticking out of it.

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The "Big Brother" character seems like he's modeled after Apple CEO Tim Cook: he's wearing dark, oval-shaped sunglasses similar to the pair Cook favors.

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Here's Tim Cook sporting his shades.

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See Also:

• Apple just removed 'Fortnite' from the App Store, and the company behind the game hit back with a scathing video that roasts the iPhone maker's most iconic ad
• The developer behind 'Fortnite' is suing Apple after the iPhone maker yanked the game from the App Store
• Read Apple's response for removing 'Fortnite' from the App Store after Epic Games skirted the tech giant's controversial 30% fee

SEE ALSO: 'Fortnite's' Epic Games learned how to evade Apple's 30% rate before it got kicked off the App Store. Here's why developers have long been concerned by the fee.

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