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Fortnite is celebrating a milestone in audience size, and has set the next edition of its onsite concerts. DJs Steve Aoki and deadmau5 are expected to headline Fortnite's latest in-game concert this Friday night. They arrive as the game has announced it has an Fortnite said it crossed 350 million registered…

Sales across video game hardware, software, accessories and game cards totaled $1.6 billion in March, up a whopping 35% from a year ago. It's the highest reported spend for the month since 2008, according to industry research firm NDP Group, and reflects the overall higher engagement with all forms of at-home media…

VENN, a lifestyle channel for and about gamers, will launch in July with 30 hours of original programming, its founders said. That's several months earlier than planned to help connect fans at a time when video game popularity and TV viewing are soaring. Ariel Horn and Ben Kusin said VENN will ramp up both remotely…

Peter Chernin’s investment firm The Chernin Group has boosted its investment in interactive entertainment company Scopely, which announced that TPC and media giant Advance have just injected $200 million to help it grow its business. Scopley said that brings its latest round of funding – Series D – to $400 million…

BAFTA has said it plans to hold its Game Awards behind closed doors amid the growing threat of coronavirus. Instead of holding a red carpet event at the Queen Elizabeth Hall on April 2, BAFTA will live stream the gathering. It added that its Television Craft Awards and British Academy Television Awards are still set…

Organizers of the annual Electronic Entertainment Expo, known as E3, has canceled its 2020 edition set for June 9-11 in Los Angeles. It becomes the latest major industry event to shutter amid the worldwide coronavirus outbreak. “After careful consultation with our member companies regarding the health and safety of…

Continuing a trend that has seen at least five tech conferences cancelled this week, the Game Developers Conference (known as the GDC by many) has decided to postpone its March 16-20 event. “After close consultation with our partners in the game development industry and community around the world, we've made the…

Disney has sold FoxNext Games LA, maker of the video game Marvel Strike Force, and Cold Iron Studios in San Jose to mobile game specialist Scopely, the companies announced Wednesday. The deal stems from Disney’s $71.3 billion acquisition last year of most of 21st Century Fox, including FoxNext Games. The transaction…

If you have a teenager in your house, you shouldn’t be surprised by Nielsen’s latest statistic: Fortnite took in $1.8 billion in sales in 2019, more money in a single year than any game in history. SuperData, the video game arm of Nielsen, gave the numbers on the game. Epic Games owns Fortnite but doesn’t break out…

Facebook’s Oculus unit has acquired Beat Games, a company known for the virtual-reality video game Beat Saber. Terms were not disclosed. The company will become part of Oculus Studios but will also produce games for other platforms. Beat Saber is described as a light-saber-endowed spin on the game Dance Dance Revolutio…

For millions players of the video game Fortnite, the withdrawal symptoms are over. The Epic Games title, which went into a publicity-savvy “black hole” on Sunday, returned to full power Tuesday with a full-length trailer for its newest iteration. Live game play of the new chapter got under way after the trailer…

Epic Games’ Fortnite ended its 10th season with a flourish, going completely dark after an asteroid was depicted as blowing up the game’s map. “The End,” as it was touted on the game, came on Sunday afternoon. The 11th season is expected to debut this week. About 250 million people play Fortnite, with the game taking…