Launched in July 2017, Fortnite rapidly became a cultural phenomenon. It now boasts 250 million registered players. — AFP Relaxnews
Teaching online video game players to save lives, not take them – that is the aim of a new product developed in an unusual collaboration between the creators of the wildly popular Fortnite games and the International Committee of the Red Cross.
The new game mode, called Liferun, teaches players the four main activities carried out by Red Cross workers in more than 80 countries: caring for civilians in need, rebuilding essential infrastructure, removing land mines and distributing aid as rapidly as possible – hardly the stuff of a typical shoot-'em-up game.
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