The Battle Royale genre is exploding due to the popularity of Fortnite and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. The latter has died sales of 21 million thus far and possesses been nominated for Fortnite Skins on the Year only at that year's The Game Awards, hosted by Geoff Keighley. And the former, we've just learned during The Game Awards airing, has hit a different high of 30 million players along using a concurrent players record the 2009 weekend of just one.3 million. Additionally, they at Epic Games used the awards show tonight to unveil a brand-new 50 versus 50 mode to get a limited time.

While the Battle Royale sector is becoming fiercely competitive, there is a pretty important difference between PUBG and Fortnite in the Bluehole published game costs $30 whereas Fortnite's Battle Royale is 100% free-to-play. And much like Warframe before it, Fortnite is handling free-to-play properly.

"Since the start we've said for no reason want to supply any gameplay affecting items, which is really the basis of our free-to-play model," Eric Williamson, Lead Systems Designer on Fortnite Battle Royale tells me. "It's crucial that people can't undermine the competitive elements of Battle Royale, so the types of things we provide need to Buy Fortnite Items and conform to be able pillar. We've also decided to sell items directly - possibly something you prefer, you may just go to store and acquire it."

It had not been even sixty days ago that Fortnite had reached the 10 million players milestone, now how has Epic were triple the bottom so quickly?