Battle royale is the latest trend that’s been sweeping across the games industry. In most examples of the growing genre, 100 players are dropped into a zone where they must find loot and kill each other off solo or as a squad as the size of the map gradually shrinks. Though PUBG is the game that really kicked things off when it was released in Steam Early Access last year, it’s since been aped by Epic’s Fortnite Battle Royale, a game that has gradually become a juggernaut in its own right. While everyone was quick to write Fortnite off as a shameless copycat, it’s very quickly proven to be its own thing, striking a particular chord with gamers after it went free to play. It’s even managed to get celebrities like Drake to catch the fever.
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