Lego Fortnite: Gaming giant launches Minecraft rival

The massively popular video game Fortnite has launched a high-profile collaboration with Lego. Fortnite technically has multiple game modes, but its online battle royale is by far its most popular, where up to 100 players compete to be the last one standing. The extraordinary popularity of Fortnite: Battle Royale - itself inspired by the Japanese thriller film of the same name and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds - completely dwarfed the game's other modes, and Fortnite is now known to most as an online shooter with crafting elements. Despite having a massive 70 million monthly players, Fortnite developer Epic Games wants more. There have been a massive amount of Lego games over the years, all the way from 1997's fan favourite Lego Island to modern tie-ins with Star Wars, Harry Potter and Marvel.

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