Daily bread 05/09/2018

• Get your free TOEIC 2018 mini-test - BusinessEnglishAllure.com

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• The Fortnite Craze Might Be Here To Stay : NPR

  • The Fortnite Craze Might Be Here To Stay
  • music playing in the background
  • televisions line the walls
  • XBox gaming systems plugged into each one
  • every screen is taken up by someone
  • to play against one another
  • holding tournaments every few weeks
  • It just seems like everybody wants to
  • Fortnite is a cross-platform game, played on computers, gaming consoles and smartphones.
  • The game's premise is simple: Players sit in a flying bus that moves across a map.
  • The player can drop down onto the map at any time and enter a battlefield.
  • The player then has about 20 to 25 minutes to build fortresses, find supplies and kill other players until the last man is standing.
  • has caused a major stir in
  • transforming casual video game players into avid ones.
  • is more like a friendly game of tag
  • tongue-in-cheek
  • It's cartoony
  • it's much more accessible
  • skins, which are like costumes, for their characters
  • emotes, which are celebratory dance moves
  • rocketed into popularity
  • wide demographic
  • a rarity
  • it's pretty balanced
  • breakout successes
  • "canary in the coal mine"
  • mass consumption of

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