Lego Fortnite: Gaming giant launches Minecraft rival
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The massively popular video game Fortnite has launched a high-profile collaboration with Lego.
Crafting has always been a core mechanic of the online shooter, which has more than 400 million players.
Now it has released an entirely new survival game mode, where players will do their crafting with Lego bricks.
And it seems to have drawn inspiration from Minecraft - a Lego-style block-building and crafting game - which is the best-selling game of all time.
Fortnite technically has multiple game modes, but its online battle royale is by far its most popular, where up to 100 players compete to be the last one standing.
Minecraft, on the other hand, is a survival game in which players build structures as well as craft tools and weapons.
When Fortnite first released it came with a similar crafting survival mode, named Fortnite: Save the World, which was released before its battle royale mode even existed.
But the extraordinary popularity of Fortnite: Battle Royale - itself inspired by the Japanese thriller film of the same name and PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds - completely dwarfed the game's other modes, and Fortnite is now known to most as an online shooter with crafting elements.
All of this means the new collaboration is in a way bringing Fortnite back to its roots, but the link-up with Lego is more than just a facelift.
Gameplay footage showsthatthe game world has changed dramatically, with structures and characters throughout all based on Lego products.
And there are moments clearly inspired by Minecraft, with the player building a fence around sheep, growing vegetables, and eating around a campfire, as well as chopping down trees to get materials to build with.
But fans of Fortnite will not be surprised by the high-profile collaboration, as the game is known for it - having previously held in-game concerts with real celebrities such as Marshmello and Ariana Grande.
