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Over the course of 2019, Fortnite only brought in $1.8 billion, a drop of 25%. Of course, $1.8 billion is still a lot of money, but the drop should be worrying Epic. The post Fortnite’s 25% Revenue Plunge Is a Terrible Omen for Epic Games appeared first on CCN.com origin »
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The start of Fortnite Season 10 was supposed to be a joyous occasion as Epic Games spoiled players with a slew of new content ranging from the progression of the battle royale's ongoing environmental narrative and fresh challenges to the addition of new vehicles, skins and, weapons.
2019-8-8 21:47 | |
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Minecraft and Roblox, two games that have been around for a decade or more, are enjoying a rise in popularity and user base at the moment. Meanwhile, the fortunes of Epic Games’ Fortnite appear to be mellowing out somewhat.
2019-8-6 21:56 | |
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Компьютерная студия Epic Games провела первый киберспортивный чемпионат по игре Fortnite. Общий бюджет финала чемпионата превысил $30 млн. Это рекордная сумма для соревнований такого типа, говорится в официальном Twitter игры.
2019-7-30 14:10 | |
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Биткоин и Fortnite — гремучая смесь. Впрочем, по мнению некоторых аналитиков, успехи в индустрии видеоигр могут пойти на пользу рынку криптовалют. Напомним, недавно студия Epic Games провела один из крупнейших ивентов в истории киберспорта. Компания организовала масштабный турнир Fortnite World...
2019-7-30 10:05 | |
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As the dust settles on the Fortnite World Cup, Epic Games appears to be laying the groundwork for a more elaborate and sustained competitive circuit. During a break in the competition at this weekend’s event in New York, Fortnite caster Sundown announced the Fortnite Championship Series, slated to debut with Season 10, which is widely […] The post Esports Play Epic Games to Finally Ramp up Competitive Fortnite Efforts appeared first on CCN Markets
2019-7-30 23:30 | |
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Bitcoin and Fortnite don’t seem to be a match made in heaven. But, according to one prominent analyst and investor, the success of one will dramatically help the other. Related Reading: Bitcoin Weekly Close Nears as Bears Maintain Control; Will BTC Soon Drop Below $9,000? Fortnite Holds Massive Tourney The seeming Bitcoin- and crypto-curious Epic.
2019-7-29 14:00 | |
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As the publishers behind the two dominant battle royale games Fortnite and PUBG, you’d expect some bad blood between Epic Games and PUBG Corp especially given their turbulent history, but according to an interview with PUBG Corp studio director Brian Corrigan, the relationship is anything but that.
2019-7-25 15:23 | |
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Inviting the wrath of diehard Steam fans, Epic Games continues to snap up Epic Store exclusives by throwing millions at developers to coax them away from Valve’s platform. How does a newcomer chip away at such an entrenched market? No competitor has yet to successfully rival Steam’s dominance as the go-to digital storefront for PC […] The post Epic Splashes Fortnite Millions Luring Game Developers to Ditch Steam appeared first on CCN Markets
2019-7-14 17:14 | |
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Epic Games has added a new update to Fortnite. Chief among the new features is an airstrike grenade, which adds fire from the sky for players lucky enough to find weapons on the map. Each projectile brings 20 missiles with it, and explosions damage players and buildings alike within a 3.
2019-7-11 04:15 | |
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Coinspeaker Epic Games Confirms Fortnite and Stranger Things CrossoverFortnite and Stranger Things fans have been waiting for this crossover for quite a while and now Epic Games officially confirmed this.
2019-7-6 14:11 | |
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Hours before Stranger Things season three was released on Netflix, fans began noticing portals inspired by the show were popping up in Fortnite. This led to speculation that there would be a crossover event featuring the two entertainment juggernauts, with Epic Games and Netflix subsequently confirming the news.
2019-7-5 14:06 | |
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Epic Games, creator of the smash hit Fortnite, currently faces a tornado of lawsuits over its use and sale of in-game animations based on dance moves popularized by celebrities. The Supreme Court is involved, the public is divided, and entertainers are seemingly getting screwed.
2019-5-29 21:31 | |
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Blockchain gaming platform The Abyss has partnered with Epic Games, the company that developed successful video game Fortnite
2019-5-23 16:14 | |
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Fortnite Creator Works With Crypto Platform To Improve The Gaming Industry Game developers that use Epic Games’ Unreal Engine will be working with better business terms if they decide to deploy their titles on The Abyss platform.
2019-5-22 21:31 | |
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The Abyss, a gaming platform built on crypto, is teaming up with "Fortnite" creator Epic Games in a bid to incentivize developers.
2019-5-22 16:00 | |
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By CCN: Worried Telsa CEO Elon Musk wasn’t packing his cars with enough feature? The tech pioneer wants you to be able to play top video game titles in his vehicles. Tesla is definitely porting over Unity and Epic’s Unreal Engine, that Fortnite and Rocket League, run on.
2019-5-19 14:30 | |
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By CCN: Worried Telsa CEO Elon Musk wasn’t packing his cars with enough feature? The tech pioneer wants you to be able to play top video game titles in his vehicles. Tesla is definitely porting over Unity and Epic’s Unreal Engine, that Fortnite and Rocket League, run on.
2019-5-20 14:30 | |
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By CCN: Fortnite Season 9 has begun, and along with with it, a heavy dose of carnage and chaos. Even the Battle Royale map hasn’t been spared! Retail Row and Tilted Towers were obliterated and replaced with new, cyberpunk Neo-Tilted and Mega Mall.
2019-5-12 10:42 | |
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By CCN: Epic Games is buying Psyonix, and to say that many in the Rocket League community are unhappy is putting it woefully mildly. The Fortnite creator is desperate for exclusives to prop up its Epic Games Store against Steam.
2019-5-3 23:56 | |
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By CCN. com: Fortnite is a phenomenon. A money-chugging, time-sucking behemoth of a game that has upset the apple cart, closed down gaming studios that couldn’t compete, and reset the clock.
2019-4-28 14:07 | |
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Less than a week after Epic Games awarded creators participating in its $5 million Unreal Dev Grants program, the developer of the hugely successful online video game Fortnite has announced a new $100 million grant initiative known as Epic MegaGrants.
2019-3-21 18:22 | |
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Activision-Blizzard employees are preparing for major destruction as the company is planning to lay off hundreds this week. The game maker’s deteriorating financials have been on full display over the past several months.
2019-2-11 23:10 | |
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Очень небольшое количество онлайн-игр может похвастаться такой же огромной аудиторией, как игра Fortnite , число пользователей которой превышает 200 миллионов человек. В прошлом году разработчик игры, компания Epic Games, заработала на ней 3 миллиона долларов.
2019-1-22 15:17 | |
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The publisher of Forza Horizon 4, our pick for the best racing game of 2018, recently updated the game. In addition to adding several new cars, it also removed two emotes. While this wouldn’t seem like a big deal in and of itself, you begin to see what a bullet it’s trying to dodge when you look across at the legal tangle that is Fortnite, Epic Games, and the dance emote lawsuits.
2019-1-16 02:21 | |
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По словам основателя компании Epic Games Тима Суини, добавление поддержки криптовалюты Monero в магазине Retail Row, специализирующемся на продукции с символикой онлайн-игры Fortnite, было сделано случайно.
2019-1-8 10:50 | |
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U. S. federal law enforcement authorities are among the most active criminal agencies globally against cryptocurrency infractions. A new example of this is that FBI and Homeland Security agents have reportedly raided a technology campus over unauthorized cryptocurrency trading.
2019-1-8 01:45 | |
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Cоздатель компании-разработчика компьютерных игр Epic Games Тим Суини (Tim Sweeney) рассказал, что возможность покупать ее продукцию в официальном онлайн-магазине Fortnite Retail Row, запущенном в декабре прошлого года, за Monero (XMR) была открыта для пользователей случайно.
2019-1-8 00:12 | |
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The highly-publicized acceptance of Monero at the official merch store of Fortnite, the world’s most popular game, was an “accident,” the founder of Epic Games, Fortnite’s parent company, revealed on Twitter on January 6, 2019.
2019-1-8 21:30 | |
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CEO of Fortnite’s Epic Games: Monero integration happened “somewhere along the way” and was accidental
2019-1-8 16:13 | |
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Основатель Epic Games Тим Суини прокомментировал появившуюся ранее в сети информацию о том, что официальный магазин разработанной его компанией онлайн-игры Fortnite начал принимать к оплате криптовалюту Monero.
2019-1-8 16:00 | |
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In today’s edition of The Daily we cover reports that Robinhood is working under the radar to hire staff in London for an expansion into the U. K. , an auction of seized cryptocurrency in Northern Ireland, and comments from the founder of Fortnite developer Epic Games about rumored cryptocurrency partnerships.
2019-1-7 14:30 | |
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Hard Fork is back up and running on all cylinders. It’s the first Moonday Morning of 2019 and that means that there’s a lot to catch up on. Let’s take a look at what we missed while we were away over the holidays.
2019-1-7 13:05 | |
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It seems that the founder of Fortnite and the creator of Epic Games is bullish on the technology behind virtual currencies. In a recent tweet, Tim Sweeney showed its support to decentralized computing tech behind virtual currencies.
2019-1-7 09:48 | |
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In an unexpected turn of events, the official Fortnite merchandise store recently began to accept Monero (XMR) purchases through crypto-friendly payment service GloBee. That begs the million-dollar question — Is Epic Games, the creator of the aforementioned video game, enamored with cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin, blockchain technologies, and the like? A recent tweet from a member of.
2019-1-6 17:00 | |
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Магазин фирменных товаров от онлайн-игры Fortnite начал принимать Монеро XMR в качестве способа оплаты. Об этом сообщила сама команда Monero в своём Твиттере. Напомним, игру Fortnite от компании Epic Games запустили в июле 2017 года. На сегодняшний день в ней...
2019-1-3 20:00 | |
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Two more voices have joined the case against Epic Games, bringing more allegations of intellectual property theft. In this case, the people in question are Alfonso Ribeiro, best known for his role as Carlton Banks on The Fresh Prince of Bel-Air, and the infamous Backpack Kid.
2018-12-18 21:53 | |
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Last week, Fortnite creator Epic Games announced it was creating its own store, in direct competition with Valve’s Steam store. As part of its incentive, it was using a new revenue sharing model, in which it would keep only 12 percent of revenue, as opposed to the industry standard of 30.
2018-12-11 01:35 | |
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Rapper 2 Milly yesterday revealed he was suing Epic Games, the creators of Fortnite, for copying his dance, the Milly Rock, in one of their emotes. The problem, he says, is not just that he’s not being fairly credited and compensated — it’s that he’s just one of several artists who’ve been treated this way by the game company.
2018-12-8 22:57 | |
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As promised, publisher Epic Games has thrown open the doors to its online store today, with a small selection of PC games on its shelves. The Fortnite developer is hoping to take on Valve’s popular Steam store with its new shop, but it won’t be an easy run.
2018-12-7 07:37 | |
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Fortnite isn’t a game: it’s a phenomenon. Like “Back To The Future,” “The Simpsons,” and Pokemon, it’s transcended media and become a cultural icon. I can’t help but wonder how many of its 200 million registered players know anything about the game that came before it: Unreal Tournament (UT).
2018-12-6 23:52 | |
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Epic Games, the company behind the wildly successful Fortnite, today revealed it’s opening its own digital game storefront. The new store will offer developers an 88 percent share of revenue, in contrast to Valve’s industry-standard 70 percent.
2018-12-4 20:49 | |
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As the year winds to a close, Google Play has announced its “Best of 2018” list, highlighting the most popular downloads from US-based Android users. There are few surprises here. Clinching Google Play’s “Best Game of 2018” award, as well as the “Fan Favorite” game trophy is PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds (PUBG) Mobile.
2018-12-3 11:05 | |
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Bloomberg today determined that the number of players registered in Fortnite is now around 200 million. Let that number sink into your head. Epic Games later confirmed that number to GamesIndustry.
2018-11-28 02:29 | |
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Epic Games revealed in a recent interview that the concurrent player count of the world’s most popular game has now climbed into truly dizzying numbers — most likely because of its recent debut on the Korean market.
2018-11-9 01:49 | |
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[Whoa] Ripple's Blockchain Ledger Sees 150 Million XRP Coins Move in New Mega-Transaction [Whoa] Ripple's Blockchain Ledger Sees 150 Million XRP Coins Move in New Mega-Transaction Epic Games' Fortnite Video Game Could Transition onto Blockchain via MagnaChain Partnership Epic Games' Fortnite Video Game Could Transition onto Blockchain via MagnaChain Partnership Guidepost Solutions CEO Security Expert: […]
2018-10-7 23:59 | |
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Fortnite’s Season 6 update added a small animation update — one which gave some characters a little extra bounce. Gamers certainly didn’t seem to mind, but Epic Games might have overreacted just a bit.
2018-9-28 21:20 | |
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Samsung users get to be the first to access the Fortnite beta on Android — a beta which begins right now. Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney revealed the exclusivity deal at Samsung’s Unpacked event, where the company also revealed its new Galaxy Note 9.
2018-8-9 18:47 | |
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Fortnite players waiting raptly for the release of the Android version are going to have a slightly different path than iPhone users. Epic games today confirmed it won’t be offering the game on the Google Play store.
2018-8-3 19:59 | |
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In what surely constitutes a sign of the coming apocalypse, parents are shelling out up to $20 an hour for coaches to help their children suck less at Fortnite. Or, you know, maybe the internet is overreacting, just a tad.
2018-8-2 23:51 | |
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Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney has slammed those cryptocurrency marketplaces that are enabling a fake “Fortnite token” promotion. He also noted that the company’s lawyers were looking into the Twitter accounts that have promoted the scam Fortnite cryptocurrencies.
The dispute between Apple and Fortnite developer Epic Games has taken a new turn. Apple revealed on Aug. 28 that it suspended Epic Games’ developer account. This development comes barely five days after a temporary court injunction stopped Apple from suspending the account.
Developer Epic Games has revealed that its flagship battle royale shooter Fortnite now has 350 million registered players. The post Fortnite Has More Registered Gamers Than the Entire U.S. Population appeared first on CCN.com
Epic Games' trippy Fortnite and Travis Scott Present: Astronomical virtual performance drew in a massive 12.3 m concurrent players. The post Fortnite’s Popularity is Waning – but It’s Still Shattering Gaming Records appeared first on CCN.com
FaZe Dubs is the latest member of FaZe Clan to end up in hot water, this time for using a racial slur on a live stream, but that doesn't mean his career needs to be over forever. The post FaZe Dubs’ Career Shouldn’t Be Over Despite Fortnite Stream Racial Slur appeared first on CCN.com
If "Fortnite fatigue" is really fake and the game isn't bleeding revenue, Epic Games could prove it ridiculously easily. So why won't they? The post If ‘Fortnite Fatigue’ Is Fake, Epic Games Picked a Dumb Way to Prove It appeared first on CCN.com
Keeping to the theme laid out in a string of cryptic teases, Fortnite Chapter 2 Season 2 is all secret agents and covert operations. The post 007 Meets Spy Kids in Fortnite’s ‘Top Secret’ Chapter 2 Season 2 appeared first on CCN.com