Fortnite
"Fortnite Battle Royale" has also become a cultural online phenomenon, with several celebrities reporting they play the game, and athletes using "Fortnite" emotes as victory celebrations. A notable streaming event in March 2018, with streamer Ninja playing "Fortnite Battle Royale" alongside Drake, Travis Scott, Kim DotCom, and Pittsburgh Steelers wide receiver JuJu Smith-Schuster, broke viewership records for Twitch to date, and led to Epic arranging a "Fortnite Battle Royale" pro–am with 50 pairs of streamers and professional players matched with celebrities at the Electronic Entertainment Expo 2018 in June 2018. Epic Games is working to develop organized eSports competitions around "Fortnite Battle Royale", including a "Fortnite" World Cup tournament in 2019.
Battle royale game
With the success of "Battlegrounds" and "Fortnite", the battle royale genre expanded greatly. Major publishers, including Electronic Arts Activision, and Ubisoft have acknowledged the impact of the growing genre and impact on their future plans. Activision's "Call of Duty" series features a battle royale mode titled "Blackout" in its 2018 installment, "", while Electronic Arts' "Battlefield V" will also include a Battle Royale mode. Some other established games added battle royale-inspired gamemodes, including "Grand Theft Auto Online", "Paladins", "Dota 2", "Battlerite", and "".