Right now, Fortnite is the most watched game in the world, averaging 139,000 viewers on Twitch every week. As Kotaku's Cecilia D'Anastasio points out,
that's double the traffic of PUBG, which had unseated League of Legends just months before.
This puts PUBG in a unique position. Brendan Greene penned a blog post outlining the 2018 roadmap. Most notably that includes a smaller map and a goofy emote system—two tricks pulled directly from the Fortnite playbook. How the tables have turned!
The rest of 2018 is shaping up to be a bloodbath.
Already, we've seen the baton passed from H1Z1, to PUBG, to Fortnite—all of which happened within the last year. With new games in the genre on the horizon like The Darwin Project, and rumors swirling about some truly bananas experiments,
like a Red Dead Redemption 2 Battle Royale mode, it sure feels like this particular cycle is far from over. One thing we know for sure though: There's only one chicken dinner.