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Ed Nightingale @ Eurogamer.net · today 06:00 EDT

How on earth do you find lasting, meaningful success with a live-service game? Developers answer the "billion dollar question"

In 2018, a year after its launch, Fortnite made Epic $5.48bn. That's a staggering amount of money, and the company has continued to make billions from the game each year since. Other publishers, developers, and investors saw that, and quickly mobilised. Read more

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