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GameStop points to Apex Legends and Fortnite driving digital currency sales News Apr 3rd, 2019

GameStop points to Apex Legends and Fortnite driving digital currency sales

Digital receipts up 16.5 per cent year-on-year and this is a large factor

GDC 2019 - Sweeney: Epic's newly-revealed online services will always be free to developers - even when the Fortnite money starts to dry up News Mar 21st, 2019

GDC 2019 - Sweeney: Epic's newly-revealed online services will always be free to developers - even when the Fortnite money starts to dry up

"We're capable of operating the company for decades more with or without a hit to the magnitude of Fortnite"

Fortnite pulls ahead of Apex Legends in Twitch watch time rankings News Mar 7th, 2019

Fortnite pulls ahead of Apex Legends in Twitch watch time rankings

But EA and Respawn's battle royale game is still wildly popular

Fortnite: Save the World’s loot boxes face legal attack News Mar 5th, 2019

Fortnite: Save the World’s loot boxes face legal attack

Lawsuit also opens fire on virtual currency and the lack of any purchase history

Epic Games’s $3 million Fortnite World Cup is the biggest solo pot in esports history News Feb 25th, 2019

Epic Games’s $3 million Fortnite World Cup is the biggest solo pot in esports history

The summer pro-gaming slam boasts a total prize pool of over $30 million

SuperData: Premium digital PC spending dropped almost a third year-on-year in January - but there's no need to panic News Feb 22nd, 2019

SuperData: Premium digital PC spending dropped almost a third year-on-year in January - but there's no need to panic

Market down six per cent in total

Almost 11m people played Fortnite to watch DJ Marshmello concert News Feb 22nd, 2019

Almost 11m people played Fortnite to watch DJ Marshmello concert

Tilted Towers was rocking

Gamers watched 79m hours of Apex Legends on Twitch in its first two weeks News Feb 20th, 2019

Gamers watched 79m hours of Apex Legends on Twitch in its first two weeks

2.1 times Fortnite, but Epic's battle royale title is gaining again

Update: Apex Legends watched for over three-times as many hours as Fortnite on Twitch in last 72 hours News Feb 15th, 2019

Update: Apex Legends watched for over three-times as many hours as Fortnite on Twitch in last 72 hours

Respawn's new title watched for 19,806,033 hours in the last three days alone

Netflix views Fortnite as bigger threat than Game of Thrones maker HBO News Jan 18th, 2019

Netflix views Fortnite as bigger threat than Game of Thrones maker HBO

Streaming giant admits the free-to-play behemoth is a competitor for its audience

Fortnite had a pretty massive security flaw until really recently News Jan 16th, 2019

Fortnite had a pretty massive security flaw until really recently

Hackers could access accounts without login info, issue fixed now

Boss of Fortnite firm Epic Tim Sweeney enters Bloomberg Billionaire Index, worth $7.16bn News Jan 9th, 2019

Boss of Fortnite firm Epic Tim Sweeney enters Bloomberg Billionaire Index, worth $7.16bn

Lend us a fiver, Tim?

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

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