Fortnite x Borderlands makes a certain amount of sense. Both shooters share a colorful irreverent tone, even if Borderlands pushes things towards M-rated Deadpool territory. But it’s the business potential that’s most interesting to us. Pr
vious Fortnite crossovers advertised big movies like Avengers: Endgame and John Wick 3 right before they released. Advertising a big game though to an audience that already cares about game is something else entirely. Plus Borderlands 3 runs on Epic’s Unreal Engine and is an Epic Games Store exclusive on PC. Reminds us of the time PUBG included Uncharted skins for its PS4 release. Fortnite X Mayhem begins September 10. Borderlands 3 releases on September 13. But no matter what game you play, we just hope we don’t need to see any more of Randy Pitchford’s magic tricks. For more on Fortnite learn about the first Fortnite world champion get angry about the overpowered robot suits. Late last night, the gaming world was brought together when superstar rapper Drake played Fortnite with streamer Ninja on Twitch. Well, everyone except me. I haven’t actively listened to pop music for about 20 years, so I only know about Drake because of the memes on Twitter. And despite being a qualified gaming journalist, I legit had no idea who this Ninja guy was. I stream on Twitch, but I still do not fully understand the concept of watching someone play games. As I often do when things like this happen, I was left feeling like an old man. So how did this all go down? Apparently, this had been in the works for months (according to the BBC). Drake is a fan of Fortnite and often plays the game to relax after recording sessions. The rapper is also a fan of Ninja, who regularly streams Fortnite on Twitch. Drake plays Fortnite on PS4 and Ninja plays on PC. Thanks to the newly introduced crossplay feature, the two were able to play with one another. As it turns out, this unique collaboration resulted in one of Twitch’s biggest streams yet. According to Polygon, the stream reached 635,000 concurrent views. That’s short of the all-time record held by ELEAGUE Major: Boston 2018 with over 1.1 million concurrent viewers. Still, 635k is nothing to sneeze at. Thanks to the stream, Ninja gained 90,000 new followers on Twitch. The streamer also ended up making $250,000 in revenue off the stream. I didn’t watch the stream myself since it was late at night, but I did toss out these tweets before bed. As always, my feelings are best summed up by quoting The Simpsons.
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