PlayVS brings Fortnite to high school and college esports tournaments
PlayVS will bring organized Fortnite competitions to high schools and colleges in the U.S. PlayVS already uses its software platform to organize popular esports...
Epic Games Store third-party games hit $251 million in player spending
Epic Games is celebrating the growth of its PC gaming store by sharing a number of informational tidbits about its performance. Most notably, the...
SuperData: Games hit $120.1 billion in 2019, with Fortnite topping $1.8 billion
The combined game industry grew 3% to $120.1 billion in 2019, according to market researcher SuperData in its year-end report. And Epic’s Fortnite battle...
GamesBeat Rewind 2019: The year’s biggest trends … and where they’re heading in 2020
The game industry is in a huge period of flux, but 2019 only set the stage for enormous paradigm shifts that the coming year...
Fortnite lost 28% of its viewership hours on Twitch in 2019
Fortnite is still one of the most popular games in the world, but it has definitely lost some of the unprecedented momentum that it...
Epic Games will reveal exclusive Star Wars: Rise of Skywalker footage inside Fortnite
In a move that would no doubt make Admiral Ackbar exclaim “our consoles can’t repel corporate synergy of that magnitude,” Fortnite developer Epic Games...
Xbox Scarlett and PlayStation 5 launches will be all about service games
Google Stadia’s launch didn’t make sense. The cloud-gaming service debuted with nearly two dozen games, but they are nearly all premium-priced products that were...
Netflix changed marketing for TV — can video games follow?
In the streaming and subscriptions economy, video game marketing needs to focus on building brands, not just selling products. When Stranger Things Season 3...
Cloud gaming is going to make customer support more complicated
New cloud-based game platforms like Google Stadia and Apple Arcade are potentially great for gamers, offering on-demand, download-free, anytime, anywhere games. But, drawing on...
Star Wars + Fortnite event brings Jedi: Fallen Order to Epic’s shooter
Star Wars Jedi: Fallen Order is out now on Steam and consoles. But it’s also coming to the Epic Games Store. This announcement comes...