If you missed the news yesterday, Apple removed Fortnite from the App Store after Epic Games implemented its own in-game payment system. In response, Epic is suing Apple. For its part, the Open Markets Institute is supporting Epic’s fight challenging Apple’s App Store monopoly. The Verge has done excellent reporting on this, so I recommend … Read more
Today, Epic Games confirmed that the massively popular Fortnite will be available at launch on PS5 and Xbox Series X. The game coming to next-gen consoles will be “the same Fortnite you know and love” while taking advantage of new hardware. According to Epic Games: While we can’t share specifics at the moment, more powerful … Read more
It was a record night. The Grammy-nominated rapper Travis Scott performed for millions of fans last night in Fortnite. Epic Games says that the virtual concert was a record-breaker in terms of the audience size for the in-game event. Fortnite – which helped lead the gaming industry to a record $120 billion in revenue last … Read more
Call of Duty: Warzone launched ten days ago on PC, PS4, and Xbox One. It has already achieved 30 million players. But how does that compare to competitors like Apex Legends and Fortnite? We don’t have ten-day data for the other two titles, so the comparison is not apples-to-apples, but we do have one-week data … Read more
2019 was a good year for gaming. The video game industry topped $120 billion in revenue for 2019. Epic Games’ Fortnite alone accounted for $1.8 billion of that total. That’s according to a new report from the Nielsen-owned SuperData. The year-over-year growth rate was 4 percent for 2019. It’s expected to remain steady in 2020, … Read more
According to a financial report, the free-to-play battle royale game Apex Legends has had 70 million players since it launched in February. Electronic Arts reported their quarterly earnings today with total revenue up year-over-year for the quarter ending September 30, 2019. The financial report contained the stat about Apex Legends. It should be noted that … Read more
In a nod to Apex Legends, Epic Games is adding a respawn feature to their popular battle royale game Fortnite. According to a video that Epic Games released on Friday, the respawn feature will work similarly to Apex Legends. “Reboot cards” will drop whenever a player is downed, which teammates can collect and take to … Read more
Fortnite has reigned supreme as the leader of the battle royale genre. Since its release, though, Apex Legends has emerged as a serious challenger. Apex Legends launched in February 2019, scoring 25 million players in its first week and 50 million players in its first month. Apex is perhaps the first game to truly match … Read more
