{"id":112061,"date":"2020-04-24T15:04:00","date_gmt":"2020-04-24T15:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/361800"},"modified":"2020-04-24T15:04:00","modified_gmt":"2020-04-24T15:04:00","slug":"fortnites-virtual-travis-scott-gig-attracted-a-record-12-3-million-concurrent-players","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2020\/04\/24\/fortnites-virtual-travis-scott-gig-attracted-a-record-12-3-million-concurrent-players\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite&#8217;s virtual Travis Scott gig attracted a record 12.3 million concurrent players"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><em>Fortnite&#8217;s <\/em>virtual Travis Scott concert attracted 12.3 million concurrent users, which <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/FortniteGame\/status\/1253524351376330752\">according to developer Epic Games<\/a> is a new all-time record.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The &#8216;Astronomical&#8217; tour was announced earlier this week, and promised to deliver an &#8220;other-worldly&#8221; interactive concert experience alongside the world premiere of a brand new track.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The reaction on social media suggests the gig delivered on that promise, with clips posted online showing&nbsp;an immense&nbsp;hologram&nbsp;of Scott performing to players&nbsp;as the world around them crumbles and reforms in a haze of light and sound.<\/p>\n<p>Scott isn&#8217;t the first artist to take to the stage in <em>Fortnite<\/em>. Last year, electronic musician Marshmello staged an interactive set that pulled in over 10 million players.&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Anyone who missed Scott&#8217;s first run of shows, or wants to catch it again, will be able to attend a set of &#8216;encore&#8217; performances over the weekend.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Fortnite&#8217;s virtual Travis Scott concert attracted 12.3 million concurrent users, which according to developer Epic Games is a new all-time record.&nbsp; The &#8216;Astronomical&#8217; tour was announced earlier this week, and promised to deliver an &#8220;other-worldly&#8221; interactive concert experience alongside the world premiere of a brand new track.&nbsp; The reaction on social media suggests the gig [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":112062,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-112061","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112061","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=112061"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/112061\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/112062"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=112061"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=112061"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=112061"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}