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More than 12 million people attended Travis Scott’s Fortnite concert Travis Scott’s first virtual performance wasn’t just spectacular — it also broke a record. This evening developer Epic Games revealed that the concert, which took place inside of Fortnite, saw 12.3 million concurrent players participate. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/23/21233946/travis-scott-fortnite-concert-astronomical-record-breaking-player-count

Epic gives in to Google and releases Fortnite on the Play Store Epic Games has released its battle royale hit Fortnite through the official Play Store on Android, 18 months after releasing the game as third-party software downloadable outside Google’s official mobile app marketplace. Continue Reading . . . https://www.theverge.com/2020/4/21/21229943/epic-games-fortnite-google-play-store-available-third-party-software

A Fortnite security bug let attackers access user accounts after they clicked a suspicious link that was sent to them. Researchers at Check Point Research found the bug and notified Epic Games in November, which then patched the vulnerability within a few weeks. from https://www.theverge.com/2019/1/16/18185398/fortnite-player-accounts-hack https://cdn.vox-cdn.com/uploads/chorus_image/image/62855771/Fortnite_20181104130356.0.jpg