Grab all of your friends and drop into Epic Games' Fortnite, a massive 100-player face-off that combines looting, crafting, shootouts and chaos. The result is a completely unpredictable competitive online experience that gets bigger and even wilder with every new season.

Epic Games created Fortnite, Unreal Engine, Gears of War, and Shadow Complex. Epic's Unreal Engine technology brings high-fidelity, interactive experiences to PC, console, mobile, augmented reality (AR), virtual reality (VR), and the Web.

Fortnite Battle Royale is a player-versus-player game for up to 100 players, allowing one to play alone, in a duo, or in a squad (usually consisting of three or four players). Weaponless players airdrop from a "Battle Bus" that crosses the game's map.

Epic Games develops Unreal Engine, a commercially available game engine which also powers their internally developed video games like Fortnite and the Unreal, Gears of War, and Infinity Blade series. In 2014, Unreal Engine was named the "most successful videogame engine" by Guinness World Records.

There are several reasons why Fortnite, and particularly Fortnite Battle Royale, have become such a big gaming craze. Firstly, Fortnite is free and widely available on major consoles, PCs and smartphone devices, meaning it could hardly be more accessible for children.

Originally Answered: How did Fortnite get its name? The game got it's name from the games Save the World Mode, where the original goal was to survive for a fortnight. They then changed the name to fortnite, then Battle Royale came out.

Epic Games is both a developer and game distributor. The company is widely known for the success of "Fortnite," but also for its own Epic Games Store. Similar to Valve's Steam service, the Epic Games Store lets you purchase and play games online.

With a $32 billion valuation in 2022 and massive hit games like Fortnite, Gears of War, and Unreal under its belt, Epic has become a master of scale. The company also boasts 723 million players who spent $820 million on its games.

Its low price (free), its first-to-market presence on popular consoles like the PlayStation, and its behemoth development studio - all helped Fortnite reach this global, ultramainstream level of popularity, but in conversations with gamers and streamers and fans at the Pro-Am, the most frequent reason I was given for ...

Epic Games Inc. Fortnite is a free-to-play video game set in a post-apocalyptic, zombie-infested world that was created by Tim Sweeney and released through Epic Games Inc.

Storefront and software. The Epic Games Store is a storefront for games available via the web and built into Epic Games' launcher application. Both web and application allow players to purchase games, while through the launcher the player can install and keep their games up to date.

There are around 400 million registered Fortnite players. Fortnite generated $9.1 billion in its first two full years since its launch. Fortnite events increase monthly revenue by around 23%