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Fortnite in 2019 earned about 1.6 billion euros

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The famous video game Fortnite, during 2019, managed to earn 1.8 billion dollars (about 1.6 billion euros). This is the biggest increase in revenue in the history of this video game, he writes engadget.

Technically, Fortnite is a free-to-play video game, but popular video game company Epic Games offers a $10 payment through which players can purchase items and weapons for their characters in the video game. , reports Koha.net. The goal of this offer is to keep Fortnite's 125 million players active.

Overall, 2019 was a good year for the video game industry. Nielsen, a data company, points out that the entire video game industry has grown its revenue to $120 billion, four percent more in total than in 2018.