At the beginning of the week, there was a rumor that Fortnite would not be published on Google Play. Today, this information was confirmed by Epic Games founder Tim Sweeney. He stated that the game will be available for download from the official Fortnite website.

Apptopia has published an interesting infographic: in how many days mobile games overcame the bar of 100 million downloads on iOS. Super Mario Run achieved this the fastest.

The Moscow City Telephone Network has determined the preferences of Moscow online players and compiled the top 10 games that have accounted for the most traffic over the past six months. 

Fortnite received $1 billion in revenue from in-game purchases. Monthly revenue of the game is only increasing, the analytical company Superdata reported.

In the rivalry between Fortnite and PUBG on the mobile market, the Epic Games project is still confidently winning. Fortnite Mobile has half as many downloads, but five times more revenue than its competitor.

The credit company LendEDU has studied in detail the habits and expenses of players in the Fortnite freeplay battle royale. Two-thirds of respondents buy in-game content. At the same time, the average Fortnite fan has already spent $84.7 in the game since the beginning of this year.

Developer of the popular “battle royale” PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS studio PUBG Corp. withdrew a lawsuit against Epic Games without explanation. The termination of the case was reported by the business publication Bloomberg.

Following Fortnite, PUBG Mobile also introduced season tickets. In the first week after the start of their sales, the revenue of the game increased by 365%, according to the analytical company Sensor Tower.

Nintendo and Microsoft have launched a joint advertising campaign in honor of the release of the Minecraft multiplatform update. “It’s better together,” the competitors assure, while Sony continues to resist and does not allow playing under the same account on different platforms.

In the first three months since the launch on iOS, fans of the main hit Epic Games spent $ 100 million in the game, analysts from Sensor Tower estimated. Only Clash Royale and Pokémon GO earned faster on iOS.

Fortnite became available for Switch shortly after Nintendo’s presentation at E3 and gained two million downloads in a day.

A selection of comments and conspiracy theories of social media users about PUBG Corp.’s lawsuit against Epic Games.

The creators of PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS have filed a lawsuit against Epic Games. South Korean studio PUBG Corp. accuses the authors of Fortnite of encroaching on their intellectual property — they believe that Fortnite Battle Royale is too similar to PUBG.

The founder of Epic Games, Tim Sweeney, believes that casual genres are losing leadership on mobile platforms. In his opinion, gamers have outgrown the fascination with simple titles and expect a more comprehensive experience from mobile games. This trend is one of the main reasons for the success of Fortnite’s “battle royale” on mobile.

Analysts from SuperData summed up the April results of the gaming market: in a month, users spent $9.09 billion on games distributed in numbers. Console games showed the greatest dynamics due to the success of Fortnite and the new God of War.

The analytical platform Newzoo compared the audience composition of the two most popular “royal battles” — Fortnite Battle Royale and PLAYERUNKNOWN’S BATTLEGROUNDS. It turned out that PUBG is more often played by adults and independent gamers, and young people and students predominate among Fortnite fans.

Epic Games has announced its readiness to sponsor Fortnite online action movie tournaments. They will be held in 2018-2019, and the prize fund of the competitions will be $ 100 million.

In March of this year, Fortnite was leading in the top views of the Twitch platform by a four-fold margin from its closest competitor. Viewers watched Epic Games’ “battle Royale” streams for 611 million hours.

The revenues of the mobile version of Fortnite’s “battle royale” for iOS exceeded $50 million. The game took a little more than 1.5 months to earn this amount, according to the analytical company Sensor Tower. Fortnite was released on iOS on March 15.