Fortnite Dominates Twitch Over Past Two Weeks

Fortnite began as a $39.99 horde defense game that focused on players building structures, traps and other structures to fend of endless waves of enemies. With the massive success that the Battle Royale genre was seeing, Epic Games, the developers behind Fortnite, decided to add their own version of the Battle Royale game mode to Fortnite. Since then, Fortnite has become the most popular game in the world and has tens of millions of players doing their best to be the last one standing. Fans can not get enough of the fast paced action, and building mechanics that make Fortnite stand out from its competition in the Battle Royale genre.  

A major contributing factor to the game's rise in popularity has been its presence on Twitch, as some of the biggest streaming personalities have made Fortnite their main game to play. This has resulted in the game climbing its way through the ranks to become the most streamed and watched game on the platform over the last two weeks.  

The Twitch statistical and analysis website Sullygnome shows that over the past two weeks, Fortnite has seen an explosive rise in viewership and hours streamed. There has been 246 years and 231 days of Fortnite content streamed, which has been watched for 4,882 years and 208 days. Fortnite is now beating the likes of Twitch powerhouses League of Legends, Counter-Strike: Global Offensive and Playerunkown Battlegrounds. The Battle Royale game was able to accomplish this feat even as CS:GO was broadcasting its IEM Katowice 2018 tournament this past weekend and League of Legends had two weeks of its League Championship Series matches. 

With the community as large as it is now, it is not looking very likely that the streamers and viewers of Fortnite will allow for their favorite game to be knocked down from the top of the Twitch leaderboards anytime soon.  

(cover photo courtesy of Epic Games)