New York (CNN Business) A special event to end the tenth season of Fortnite actually ended the game altogether — at least for the afternoon. Players logged in Sunday to participate in an event called "The End" as the game prepares to launch its next iteration. ET, a rocket on the island where Fortnite is set blew up the landscape in the game and dragged all of the players into a black hole, leaving nothing but a mostly dark screen and a spinning black hole and no way for users to play for hours. Even four hours after the game had gone down, about 50,000 people were still actively watching the game's live stream of the black hole on YouTube; another 100,000 were watching on Twitch. But most think it's a strategy to get users excited about the next season of Fortnite, after plateauing user interest in the game in recent months.

Source: CNN October 14, 2019 00:11 UTC