When streamers like Ninja are pulling in the likes of Drake and breaking viewing records on Twitch, the impact of Chat is more significant than ever as the first touch point many non-gamers will have interacting with our community. We shouldn’t need to wait for a pro player to have their career significantly destroyed to realise that Twitch Chat is a largely under-addressed aspect of gaming culture that has very few positive contributions.

Fortnite wonder streamer and rapper Drake are playing Epic's Battle Royale shooter on Twitch right now, and breaking a bunch of records in the process,

Epic Games and Fortnite Battle Royale doesn’t just stand shoulder to shoulder next to PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, it towers over it.

Fortnite Battle Royale already plays like a dream, it’ll be tweaking itself even further with the upcoming V3.3 update that’ll add new loot and kill off the perennially unpopular smoke grenades that players just don’t seem interested in ever using. Also there'll be llamas.

The Fortnite console cross play situation is irksome. Instead of playing ball, sony seem to rather want to take its ball and go home.

Fortnite: Battle Royale has its eyes on more than just the usual trinity of platforms, as developer Epic Games have announced that they’ll be porting their full 100-player experience to iOS and Android mobile devices. Presumably with some kind of sorcery.

Fortnite's new mode is called Teams of 20, and as its name suggests, it’ll open the island to five teams of twenty players each. It’s somewhere between one of the previous timed events that saw 50v50, and the usual squad mode of 4 players on each team.

Fortnite’s got a huge playerbase, but most of the people playing it are running around shooting each other in the game’s free Battle Royale mode. The player and developer focus on that has led to those who’ve invested in the paid, co-operative PvE Save the World Campaign a little neglected. It looks like Epic’s trying to change that in one way at least. There’s a great big sale on the game on all three platforms, letting players snap up the paid game for half price