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Twitch viewer record smashed as 600k-plus people tune in to watch Drake and Ninja play Fortnite News Mar 15th, 2018

Twitch viewer record smashed as 600k-plus people tune in to watch Drake and Ninja play Fortnite

World famous rapper + high profile streamer + insanely popular free-to-play battle royale game = big numbers

More people played Fortnite than PUBG in February, Newzoo claims News Mar 13th, 2018

More people played Fortnite than PUBG in February, Newzoo claims

Epic's game is more popular in Europe, PUBG reigns Asia

Battle royale giant Fortnite is coming to mobile, will have cross play with PC and console News Mar 12th, 2018

Battle royale giant Fortnite is coming to mobile, will have cross play with PC and console

Developer claims title will have same gameplay, map, content and weekly updates

Fortnite at the forefront of games addiction controversy News Mar 7th, 2018

Fortnite at the forefront of games addiction controversy

Parents are blaming Epic's battle royale title for changes in their children’s behaviour

Is PUBG or Fortnite dominating the streaming space at the moment? News Mar 6th, 2018

Is PUBG or Fortnite dominating the streaming space at the moment?

The two titles are spearheading the creator space right now – but which one is triumphing?

Twitch Prime users are receiving free Fortnite outfits News Mar 1st, 2018

Twitch Prime users are receiving free Fortnite outfits

Skins and emotes given away to people subscribing to Twitch's premium service

PUBG and Fortnite made more than $200m in digital revenue this January News Feb 27th, 2018

PUBG and Fortnite made more than $200m in digital revenue this January

Premium PC spending up 24 per cent year-on-year

Fortnite hits 3.4m concurrent users, servers go dark News Feb 9th, 2018

Fortnite hits 3.4m concurrent users, servers go dark

And Epic has detailed what it's going to do to stop this happening again

Epic Games ditches its MOBA Paragon News Jan 29th, 2018

Epic Games ditches its MOBA Paragon

Title to be shut on April 26th

More than 40m people have played Fortnite News Jan 16th, 2018

More than 40m people have played Fortnite

Epic's battle royale hits two million concurrent players

Epic settles first Fortnite cheater lawsuit News Dec 6th, 2017

Epic settles first Fortnite cheater lawsuit

And tries to save itself from yet more hot water after accidentally suing a 14-year-old

Epic Games has been suing Fortnite cheaters and one of them is fighting back News Nov 28th, 2017

Epic Games has been suing Fortnite cheaters and one of them is fighting back

Mother of minor facing lawsuit argues the games firm doesn't legally bind underage users

20m people have played Epic's Fortnite News Nov 7th, 2017

20m people have played Epic's Fortnite

Battle Royale appears to be the sales driver

Fortnite’s Battle Royale mode hits 800,000 concurrent players News Nov 2nd, 2017

Fortnite’s Battle Royale mode hits 800,000 concurrent players

But has caused some tech problems

Fortnite battle royale mode has been played by 10m people in two weeks News Oct 11th, 2017

Fortnite battle royale mode has been played by 10m people in two weeks

44.5m hours have been ploughed into this game

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