Fortnite live event sees 5.6m players defeat Doctor Doom in hour-long battle

Fortnite brought the storyline of its current Marvel season to a head tonight in a climactic battle with Doctor Doom that attracted a concurrent peak of 5.6 million players.

Over the course of an hour, players worked together to tackle an enormous, rampaging version of the classic Marvel villain, until finally his armour cracked, his health bar was depleted, and he was sucked back into whatever corner of the Marvel multiverse he’d sprung from.

Fortnite’s own stats show an overall total of 5.6 million players in-game just after 7pm UK time tonight, when this evening’s live event began. This is the game’s highest concurrent total since last December, when 11.6 million players turned up for the Big Bang live event, which featured a performance by Eminem and tea…

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Assassin's Creed Shadows demo pulled from EGX following delay to 2025

Ubisoft will no longer be hosting a playable demo of Assassin’s Creed Shadows at EGX this October.
“We appreciate the incredible passion and dedication of our community, and we’ve seen your excitement to get hands-on with the game, so we sincerely apologise for any disappointment this change may cause,” the Assassin’s Creed UK social media team posted this afternoon.

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