{"id":25193,"date":"2018-06-13T14:04:00","date_gmt":"2018-06-13T14:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/319937"},"modified":"2018-06-13T14:04:00","modified_gmt":"2018-06-13T14:04:00","slug":"fortnite-has-attracted-125m-players-in-under-a-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/2018\/06\/13\/fortnite-has-attracted-125m-players-in-under-a-year\/","title":{"rendered":"Fortnite has attracted 125M players in under a year"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Newsbrief:<\/strong> <em>Fortnite<\/em> has grown to 125 million registered players since launching less than a year ago on July 25, 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Publisher Epic Games broke the news in a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.epicgames.com\/fortnite\/en-US\/news\/announcing-2018-2019-fortnite-competitive-season\">blog post<\/a>, where the main focus was the game&#8217;s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.gamasutra.com\/view\/news\/318485\/Epic_Games_puts_up_100M_for_Fortnite_esports_prize_pool.php\">$100 million push into esports<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>While the popular multiplayer shooter did indeed hit shelves in July last year, the stand out battle royale game mode was only added in September.<\/p>\n<p>Since then, the title has gone from strength to strength, and is now available on most major platforms including PS4, Xbox One, PC, MacOS, mobile, and Nintendo Switch.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Newsbrief: Fortnite has grown to 125 million registered players since launching less than a year ago on July 25, 2017.\u00a0 Publisher Epic Games broke the news in a blog post, where the main focus was the game&#8217;s\u00a0$100 million push into esports. While the popular multiplayer shooter did indeed hit shelves in July last year, the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25194,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25193","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\/25193","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=25193"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/25193\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/25194"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=25193"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=25193"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sickgaming.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=25193"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}