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Fortnite live event sees 5.6m players defeat Doctor Doom in hour-long battle


Fortnite brought the storyline of its current Marvel season to a head tonight in a climactic battle with Doctor Doom th…

This is the game's highest concurrent total since last December's record-setting peak of 11.6 million players, when the Big Bang live event featured a performance by Eminem and teased the arrival of Lego Fortnite, racing and music modes. Watch on YouTube Tonight's big fight against Doctor Doom played out a little differently to other in-game events in the past, making for a memorable - if mechanically fairly straightforward - Fortnite live experience. After three or four matches - Doom still rampaging around throughout, health bar slowly lowering - damage was visible on the armour he had forged from this chapter's macguffin - Pandora's Box - and Hope's voice could be heard once again, signalling the fight was at a close.

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