Let’s focus now on the video games industry because one of the most successful titles in the world could be about to get even bigger fortnite already has more than 400 million registered players while now its developer epic has joined forces with the toe toy giant Lego to try to appeal To even younger players but the move is proving controversial our technology correspondent Mark chisl has more the massively popular video game fortnite has launched a high-profile collaboration with Lego while fortnite is famous for blasting building and last player standing Battle Royale this new game is a survival crafting title Heavily leaning into the crafting element using Lego bricks fortnite’s no stranger to controversy with questions being raised about child safety in the game since it first launched it has in-game purchases um which used to be loot boxes and it has the ability to talk to other players So when I’m talking to parents what I’m wanted to make sure is that they understand that experience before or they hand it over to their child so how has its developer epic games address these issues when working with famously familyfriendly Lego we’ve been on a journey this you Don’t Implement these features in a week or a day like these are things that we’ve been building for years and years and so one of the things that we recently implemented was a rating system so each piece of content is rated appropriately for the audience and we allow through our parental controls the Parents to decide what type of content their kids will be able to see it’s clear that this collaboration between Lego and fortnite is about making the fortnite ecosystem more appealing to younger players but for a game which has attracted criticism from a wide variety of different quarters parents groups Even Prince Harry is seeking ever younger players a wise move you can apply some of the criticism that’s been been levied at fortnite to video games in general and a lot of that criticism is how are they interacting with other people on the internet and it’s a battle royale by its very nature You’re going to be in combat and there are people who that’s not what they’re interested in that’s not what their tastes are or there are people who like with Lego are probably a bit too young for that there are already lots of Lego video games but does collaborating with Fortnite create a particular risk for the company every collaboration and everything that you do always uh especially things that are ambitious very a lot of unknowns because we don’t yet know exactly how the game is going to land let’s see if it manages to build its makers an even bigger audience MK Chisl CC news Video Information
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The massively popular video game Fortnite has launched a high-profile collaboration with Lego – which seems to have drawn inspiration from the best-selling game of all time, Minecraft.
Crafting is key to Minecraft’s Lego-style block-building gameplay, and is also important in Fortnite, which has more than 400 million registered players.
Now Fortnite has released an entirely new survival game mode, where players will do their crafting with Lego bricks.
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