Fortnite

This past weekend Epic Games hosted the first-ever Fortnite World Cup Finals in NYC, which I attended, and will write up in greater detail later this week. Business Insider Intelligence Fortnite has taken the world by storm, garnering 250 million players wo…

The people who filled Queens, New Yorks Arthur Ashe tennis stadium for this weekends Fortnite World Cup were people who love Fortnite, or at least those people and their parents. The bulk of the attendees I saw were young kids, swimming in soccer shorts and b…

10. And this 16-year-old made $3 million playing Fortnite. Kyle Giersdorf of Pottsgrove, Pa., won first place in a large videogame competition held in New York, above, at the same stadium where tennis players will soon compete in the U.S. Open. Everything I…

NEW YORK (AP) — All those hours playing video games have paid off for a 16-year-old. Kyle Giersdorf, of Pottsgrove, Pennsylvania, won $3 million as the first Fortnite World Cup solo champion. The competition took place Sunday at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New Yo…

This 16-year-old from Pennsylvania has just become an instant millionaire. Kyle Giersdorf, whos known by his video gaming handle Bugha, won the US$3 million grand prize at the Fortnite World Cup held Sunday at Arthur Ashe Stadium in New York. Today was inde…

Something is coming.  Epic Games Fortnite season 10 will start on Aug. 1. After The Final Showdown between the giant robot and Polar Peak monsters, players speculated what would be changing in the next season. During the Fortnite World Cup, Epic Games relea…

What does a 16-year-old do with US$3 million? Kyle Giersdorf, winner of the inaugural Fortnite World Cup, will soon find out. The popular online first-person shooter game had its first-ever sporting event at New York City’s Arthur Ashe tennis stadium on Sund…

The final three Fortnite Overtime challenges for season 9 have now been released. We’re into the final three days of Fortnite Season 9, so players don’t have long to complete the weekly and Fortbyte challenges. Season 10 will launch on the 1st August with do…

This 16-year-old from Pennsylvania just won $3 million playing a video game

A multitiered stage weighing almost a quarter-million pounds hung from hundreds of cables fastened to the roof of the stadium. Needless to say, structural engineers were required. Racks upon racks of servers were assembled in the commissary, connected to hund…