Epic Games Reboots Fortnite To Combat Contenders

Lately, Epic Games has introduced a “Chapter 2” reboot of its battle royale smash hit “Fortnite”. Since then, it has been drawing millions of gamers globally. This was after it has bid to pause defections to opponents “Apex Legends” and “Call of Duty”.

Earlier this year, Fortnite had 250 million registered players as recorded.

Meanwhile, the website “https://www.pcgamesn.com/fortnite/fortnite-battle-royale-player-numbers”, has been down since Sunday.

The outage has given users no option other than staring at a black screen. This was after the season-end of an in-game event. In it, a meteor destroyed the original island map and turned it into a black hole.

Moreover, the latest version of the game features 13 new locations.

There is water gameplay where characters can swim, fish, and ride motorboats. New places are also included in hiding.

In addition, a host of new avatars and guns are contained within.

The developments were hashtagged as #FirstDrop. They were all received well by gamers.

In the U.S., “Fortnite is back” is also trending on Twitter with 13 thousand tweets.

The new game played live by gamer Turner “Tfue” Tenney has caught nearly 80,000 of watchers.

Less than two hours after its introduction, it is already on video game live-streaming platform Twitch.

Fortnite and its early competitor Tencent-backed “PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds” (PUBG) has promoted an arena-style battle royale survival concept game.

The grounding of the game is this: 100 gamers are thrown down onto an island to match each other to the death.

Downloading of the games are free, but users pay for upgrades such as the “skins” presented on characters.

Fortnite’s Revenue and Achievements

In 2018, Fortnite gathered $2.4 billion in revenue. This is more than any other single title, according to Nielsen data.

The runaway achievements of the games encouraged Electronic Arts to launch its similarly themed Apex Legends. It is earlier this year, and the rivalry continues to mount.

Meanwhile, the introduction of the mobile version of Activision’s long-running “Call of Duty” franchise was on October 1.

Moreover, it has already obtained 125 million unique downloads. According to the data website Sensor Tower, more than $28 million is also in gross player spending.

The trading on the New York Stock Exchange made all of the shares in Activision, EA, and Grand Theft Automaker Take-Two Interactive Software inched higher.

Meanwhile, Fortnite producer Epic was worth $15 billion when it last raised its capital from investors last year.

Elsewhere, Fortnite Save the World is now available to buy again in digital stores. In addition, it has not yet become free-to-play.

Epic Games proclaimed some time ago that they propose to make the original Fortnite game a free download. They want to make it similar to the popular Battle Royale spin-off.

The implementation would be after some significant adjustments to the game. Executions of some changes were now happening.

Fans were confident that something new would happen to the game along with the Fortnite Chapter 2 update.

Meanwhile, Epic Games could move to relaunch Save the World.

Save the World gamers did get an updated roadmap. This is for much of the rest of the year. However, there were no signs of a F2P launch.