Epic Games, the creator of Fortnite, raises $1.25 billion

INSUBCONTINENT EXCLUSIVE:
It pays to have the most popular game in the world.Epic Games, the creators of the runaway gaming smash hit Fortnite, have raised $1.25
concert with its first person shooter, Unreal
Since then, the company has been releasing free-to-play games as a loss leader to show off what its powerful development toolkit can do.Now,
with the insane success of Fortnite, the company has flipped the script.Since Fortnite became the thing that nearly every gamer in the world
plays, the company has slashed prices on the Unreal game engine even as it keeps upgrading the technology.And the company has been plowing
that cash back into the community to support esports tournaments with a $100 million prize pool to support competitive Fortnite gamers.The
companies like aXiomatic, which announced a significant investment from the NBA legend Michael Jordan earlier in October.The new investors