‘Fortnite’ creator Epic Games touts over 500 million accounts

“Fortnite” creator Epic Games, which is entrenched in a legal battle with Apple Inc, said on Tuesday it now has more than 500 million accounts. The videogame developer said it had 2.7 billion friend connections across “Fortnite”, “Rocket League” and the Epic Games Store. The company had disclosed last year that “Fortnite” had 350 million registered users as of June 2020.

Epic Games said it was also launching free voice chat and anti-cheat tools that developers can add to their games. The features will be bundled with Epic’s online services suite, originally built for “Fortnite”, and help developers launch, operate and scale their games using any engine and across platforms including Windows, Mac, Linux, PlayStation and Xbox.