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Fortnite: The one that might have changed the games industry forever Feature Dec 17th, 2018

Fortnite: The one that might have changed the games industry forever

How the free-to-play battle royale add-on to a survival game went on to become the biggest game on the planet, becoming a lightning rod for our market's issues along the way

Epic to release cross-platform tech that powered Fortnite for free News Dec 12th, 2018

Epic to release cross-platform tech that powered Fortnite for free

"We have put huge efforts into building services for Fortnite that reach 200 million players across seven platforms"

Epic confirms that Unreal Tournament is no longer in active development News Dec 5th, 2018

Epic confirms that Unreal Tournament is no longer in active development

Team now working on Fortnite

Fortnite firm Epic launches games storefront where developers keep 88 per cent of revenue News Dec 4th, 2018

Fortnite firm Epic launches games storefront where developers keep 88 per cent of revenue

Launching soon with curated selection of games

It's official - Fortnite now has 200m players News Nov 27th, 2018

It's official - Fortnite now has 200m players

Rise of 60 per cent in the last five months

Epic has started suing YouTubers for promoting and selling Fortnite cheats News Oct 17th, 2018

Epic has started suing YouTubers for promoting and selling Fortnite cheats

Brandon Lucas frequently cheats in-game and sells cheats on a website

78.3m people played Fortnite in August News Sep 21st, 2018

78.3m people played Fortnite in August

Game's biggest month yet

Report: Over 200 UK divorces have cited Fortnite and other games since start of 2018 News Sep 17th, 2018

Report: Over 200 UK divorces have cited Fortnite and other games since start of 2018

Battle royale title joins addiction to drugs, gambling and alcohol as commonly expressed reasons for divorce

INSIGHT: Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII could absolutely rule the battle royale genre on PC Interviews & Opinion Sep 14th, 2018

INSIGHT: Call of Duty: Black Ops IIII could absolutely rule the battle royale genre on PC

Activision and Treyarch's titles right between Fortnite and Playerunknown's Battlegrounds strengths meaning there could be a new player in town

Dipping LoL playerbase, Tencent's focus on battle royale and mobile cause tensions with Riot Games News Aug 14th, 2018

Dipping LoL playerbase, Tencent's focus on battle royale and mobile cause tensions with Riot Games

"We're working together toward an exciting future, both for League and our upcoming games (yes 's')," studio says

EA "interested" in experimenting with standalone free-to-play battle royale game News Jul 30th, 2018

EA "interested" in experimenting with standalone free-to-play battle royale game

Publisher potentialy after them Fortnite dollars

One year on - 10 ways Fortnite has impacted the games market News Jul 27th, 2018

One year on - 10 ways Fortnite has impacted the games market

How a survival-and-crafting-slash-battle-royale-after-the-fact title has affected the industry

Epic Games is now worth $8.5bn off back of Fortnite boom News Jul 25th, 2018

Epic Games is now worth $8.5bn off back of Fortnite boom

And Tim Sweeney is a billionaire

Epic says Fortnite Summer Skirmish ”did not go as planned, but we definitely learned a lot!” News Jul 20th, 2018

Epic says Fortnite Summer Skirmish ”did not go as planned, but we definitely learned a lot!”

Games giant apologises for disastrous server issues in last weekend’s $250,000 tournament

Report: Titles with battle royale modes to earn 12 per cent of 2018's games revenue News Jul 17th, 2018

Report: Titles with battle royale modes to earn 12 per cent of 2018's games revenue

PC to be behind 37.3 per cent of total battle royale revenue this year

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