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69 per cent of Fortnite players are forking out for in-game purchases News Jun 27th, 2018

69 per cent of Fortnite players are forking out for in-game purchases

Players are spending an average of $85 on boosts and v-bucks

“Single player is not dead, not even close” News Jun 20th, 2018

“Single player is not dead, not even close”

Take-Two’s Strauss Zelnick defends single player games

More than 400m people have played Playerunknown's Battlegrounds News Jun 20th, 2018

More than 400m people have played Playerunknown's Battlegrounds

On PC and Xbox One, there have been over 50m sales

Brendan “Playerunknown” Greene loves to see the battle royale genre grow News Jun 19th, 2018

Brendan “Playerunknown” Greene loves to see the battle royale genre grow

But his words don’t exactly match his studio’s deeds

Battle royale parody Totally Accurate Battlegrounds already has more players than H1Z1 News Jun 8th, 2018

Battle royale parody Totally Accurate Battlegrounds already has more players than H1Z1

April Fool’s Day joke overtakes more polished efforts to find a spot in the battle royale space

Opinion: PUBG Corp's lawsuit against Epic over Fortnite could set an uncomfortable precedent for games development Interviews & Opinion May 30th, 2018

Opinion: PUBG Corp's lawsuit against Epic over Fortnite could set an uncomfortable precedent for games development

This market has been built on a cycle of iteration and improvement which could end if the Playerunknown's Battlegrounds firm wins this case

Epic puts $100m behind Fortnite esports prize pools News May 22nd, 2018

Epic puts $100m behind Fortnite esports prize pools

And that’s just for the first season

Why Automaton thinks it can take battle royale to the next level Interviews & Opinion May 18th, 2018

Why Automaton thinks it can take battle royale to the next level

CEO James Thompson explains his team's vision for the most popular genre in the PC market right now

Take-Two's Zelnick: It's our job to innovate, not chase trends like battle royale News May 17th, 2018

Take-Two's Zelnick: It's our job to innovate, not chase trends like battle royale

"More often than not that has driven our success"

Opinion: Radical Heights is a masterclass in how not to release a game Interviews & Opinion May 15th, 2018

Opinion: Radical Heights is a masterclass in how not to release a game

How an out-dated approach to Early Access and a business model that worked against it spelled disaster for Boss Key Productions

PUBG and Fortnite help headset firm Turtle Beach hit record revenue News May 14th, 2018

PUBG and Fortnite help headset firm Turtle Beach hit record revenue

Net revenue at the hardware specialist up 185 per cent year-on-year

How Techland learnt to run Dying Light as a service Interviews & Opinion May 10th, 2018

How Techland learnt to run Dying Light as a service

The studio's head of process and project management Maciej Laczny talks Dying Light's success, how to run a service-based game and how the Polish studio is putting its own spin on battle royale

Dota 2 takes on battle royale in limited game mode News May 9th, 2018

Dota 2 takes on battle royale in limited game mode

The Underhollow sees teams of three duke it out over a rare wheel of cheese

State of Decay 2 devs say there's no point in doing a battle royale game News May 1st, 2018

State of Decay 2 devs say there's no point in doing a battle royale game

"There's nothing left for us to harvest"

Epic's battle royale game Fortnite made $223m in March, SuperData reckons News Apr 27th, 2018

Epic's battle royale game Fortnite made $223m in March, SuperData reckons

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