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one year of phenomenal success for Fortnite

  • Written by Steven Conway, Senior Lecturer - Games and Interactivity, Swinburne University of Technology
one year of phenomenal success for FortniteCall that a weapon? Playing Fortnite, a web-based multiplayer survival game.Shutterstock/Lenscap Photography

The online videogame Fortnite Battle Royale was launched just a year ago in September 2017. Since then the game had amassed 125 million active players by June and made US$1.2 billion (A$1.6 billion) for the developer, Epic Games.

It has also...