On Wednesday night, Degrassi's Drake and Travis Scott joined adored streamer Ninja to play Fortnite. 628,000 tuned in to watch on a random Wednesday night, crushing Twitch's all-time streaming record.
Some context: The Super Bowl maxed out at 1.1M concurrent viewers. Fortnite developer Epic Games is even planning an official celebrity competition in June.
“Video games ARE popular culture. Last night was proof of that.” – Geoff Keighley, Producer of The Game Awards
Esports typically require a powerful (and expensive!) gaming PC. Lucky for us, Epic Games just released an iOS version of Fortnite so the entire world can pretend to be Katniss Everdeen and try to outsurvive everyone.
They're rolling out iOS invites as we speak. Get yours today. 🎮
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