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The free to play online video game thought is a cultural juggernaut not only is it influencing pop culture but pop culture is influencing fortnight the game boasts more registered players than the populations of canada and mexico combined it also generates roughly 250000000. 00 in revenue each month for its creator epic games but for many of the 200000000. 00 people who play it fortnight isnt just a game its a communal Gathering Place joining us to talk about this from los angeles we have jamie in the war and hes an avid gamer and founder of 256 a company that works with brands to engage with the world of play and interactivity in new york i should have done is a journalist who regularly reports on the gaming well out in Charlotte North Carolina author psychologist and cofounder of tank frank good to have you add and we also want to introduce you to one other person you will see throughout the show how they get rashid is a digital producer here with the stream and an avid for game hell be playing the game during our discussions and youll be out to follow along and his fortnight journey is at the bottom of the screen all the way through so if you get killed. We will know no question all right. And i have never paid for it so were going to play with you what do we need lets jump right into it so here we are in the lobby screen as you can see this is where right before you jump into the game ok so real quick im going to my locker when you happen to me im going to have you choose my outfit all right im going to go through. This guy yet ok so me and monique im going to have my bling. Ring yes i want we want you to fly so now im back in the lobby and im ready to go fire up and triangle and im jumping in again all right can you play until course i can play all right plain talk of course so will the loading screen takes a couple seconds and ill be probably in again probably a minute or 2 well were watching you at the bottom of the screen. So i mean we know that we have a lot of gamers in our community but this is one person who is not as simple or all them so i want to start this conversation with them this is christopher who says i heard a lot about this game for tonight and was curious to see if it was worth all the hype after trying it for a month i decided it wasnt for me love the look but spending 20 plus minutes wandering a giant World Without seeing the soul d to just get taken out from behind is not my idea of fun so james and i you know the last thing in there i want to give a little teaser for our audience because mohammad before the show described the game as our version of the hunger games youve seen the movies or you read the books describe for us based on this tweet from christopher what it is that youre actually doing in this game yeah congregates its actually agree. As a culture were familiar with the Battle Royale john the kind of winner takes all format that exists in a lot of different places so you have things like dodgeball march madness for basketball so i think culture. Understand what it means to be the last person standing which is really unique and revolutionary about fortnight is that if throws 100. 00 people into an environment that they all share and the last person to be standing wins theres a big ring that sits outside the world that kind of pushes people into a more and more compressed space but for you know the fellow who is feeling a little down about being lost by themselves they may want to consider playing with other people you can actually play as duos you can play with a squad so at least if its if its not as you getting taken out its the rest of your crew so its a really innovative format a really interesting twist on a very popular gaming style from the 1st time you played fortnight. What were you thinking hes single for the actual goal is trying to do for you as a poet. Well ill tell you the 1st time i played it is the same experience i was in there for 20 minutes i didnt know what i was doing even though im a dreamer and i just decided to give up and just play on my phone which which is interesting about this game is crossplatform you can do play station x. Box you name it but my claim to fame is after playing it for about a month i actually got a solo when i actually won the game on my phone which gives me a lot of street cred with some of the clients that i see but it also in playing this game with my son and Getting Better at it it was just a very bonding experience it was very funny when this broke i started i could hear the theme music it made me feel like oh its actually walking into my house any very much you could play and it was very familiar i like that i because its the family area that people online are saying its what draws them to it because its the thing that they come back to again and again so this is dream park and he says some of the appeal its free which is a big factor its on every modern platform it being on phones was a big in a bill or at and frank you just mentioned how you played on your phone jean on twitter says it enables crossplatform play the way part that way progress is always unsure. What were breaking into aljazeera is come from sea bring you some news just coming out of london there have been reports of a shooting in the United Kingdom near the London Bridge area over a capital we understand people say several shots have been fired so people have been warned to stay away from the area and some buildings that are on locked say in the British Police have confirmed there is attending an incidence at London Bridge at lets cross nights. Ben rayner hes in london foras joins us on the line at ben just what have you been hearing. All im down on the other street just to the south side of lung. I just wanted to ensure in london where he is paying some sort of shooting on London Bridge itself no further details on that of the moment but the police through on down have sworn in to the. Site of the has been some shooting on the north side of London Bridge just as we were coming down the counter latch we wanted the entrance to problem ok when d. Told so by another when theyre mad over them with a knife in the market and on police and rushed into the scene. Dozens of on police run in that i havent heard any shots fired in the certainly they were living in the situation in that weve removed the bike down the road very rapidly by Police People are still being moved out. On the money by the police they moved to safety goldsmithing checked off around the area helicopters arrived about hey this is over you see the same location as a previous attack in london where a number of people were killed on the bridge attacks its to gain some sort of shooting on the north side of London Bridge and then another incident involving a market which is a well known market here in london i dont particularly d in a lot of thought of the week it would be very busy on a friday numbs time with people eating having lunch from offices hundreds of people would be in the area. Clearly the scene a still developing as i can see they are moving dozens of people out at the moment they have the police havent moved further back but all the police on the scene there woman with a machine gun just walking past me now but as i say the situation at the moment seems to have calmed down but it certainly appears that being some sooner shooting in the moment no. London grange and another incident. Involving market itself we understand from the Reuters News Agency they say it appears someone has been shot at London Bridge is worth clarifying for our viewers as we are bringing you these live shots across london this is an ongoing incident so were still trying to piece together the details that the ben as you were saying there was an incidence a terrorist attack in the same area. Year or so ago certainly it is a busy part of london and a part of the capital where there are a a good number of people look at concentration of people and certainly around this time of day whats the mood like there in there just give us a sense of why people are reacting. Well people there was clearly. Also the. People were pushed by Police People narrow the police tipler watching the situation and saying show me where the cameras arent very clearly very very tense situation ive seen people crying being in the same ringing their relatives informing them of was happening for them are when people are calling all the ring told by the police and being released around the world are now being moved. Further down the road much else so im going to have to think about why there are cameras and the lights on the same. While doing the cold irl. There are Police Moving around at the moment and kelli dont go on the scene. Now. There are now 2 Police Helicopters in the sky overhead. 5 the moment of seeing outside the police told me well its simply calm but that aside i dont and then on police with machine guns on the same clearly a very significant period and then the head just on the shall side of London Bridge fall actually from alexandras london headquarters in mashad which is why we were here very shortly after the incident happened absolutely abend weve just had a tweet come out from the metropolitan police they have as sent a information saying that they were called at 1 58 pm local time to a stabbing at the premises near to London Bridge they say a man has been detained and a number of people have been injured state dating these events in vail time but we also understand that there was a shooting as well so its a quite clearly here there are several incidents going on in this area but. Yeah it certainly seems odd to screen at least one incident maybe 2 its normally clear at the moment on that i want to speculate on things that i can tell you here on the ground one thing straight and obviously the policeman on the ground one tell you exactly what happened calls on that information comes out from a more central place. Rather than on the ground chamber from what were seeing shall a very serious incident early an incident of the police or guarding as some sort alls. Why would i want to use the word attack checkers when no clearer map and generally an instance of the metropolitan police here in london on how you can very seriously really comes. Down in a time the way of building also was a general election in 10 days time and security has a heightened level of awareness of the mention possibly certainly going to be heightened in the period after the. General election here in london and said this and the capital of course and in the u. K. The country has been on a state of heightened to legs for quite some time in fact only recently that terrorism alert was sent to the region not too long ago but still a sense in the capital is there not that there isnt a need for security yes certainly a need for security i think it was a it was a period in london. A few months ago when there was a. Time when the. Threat level of this cold air in london was heightened to have something terrorist attacks recently in london which is maybe why that threat level was reduced but a london is a place that is finally used to this kind of incident and in some ways the day after dealing with it the police on the same very quickly there is a Police Station very nearby to where the incident happened in the safely of London Bridge. On the bridge itself where the infant spencer happened on London Bridge station which is one of the major london transport charmin on a train station and there are a daily Police Stationed outside that train station you would have been on the scene very quickly just an update on the moment were being moved further away around the south away from the situation which is where you can hear the police showing us down people have filming on their camera phones and moving away from the same shallowly motion japonica the moment amongst the people here and the Police Vehicle no shelters just moving us down where the armed police who actually manning the cordon of the moment for the same seems like an incident on londons going to get into opposing it was well done and maybe some strong instances early reports are that some students and in London Bridge join paula market a cocktail of 3 book it just to the south of London Bridge to lynch and to london. And im from we call it a place for lunch Time Office Workers eating out on a friday lunchtime the train check out of London Bridge station which has a policy over the scene are still moving but the run which are closed and the police tape is closed off. And the place is swarming on police and you will. Ok ben thank you for that if you could just stay with us on the line we will come back to you for more shortly will let you get me why the police said lets close out a serious pull brennan pull is in Central London and also from the pictures that were seeing a pope is also being moved on police to spare viewers who are joining us here on aljazeera at this hour we are breaking into our regular programming to bring you a breaking news out of london we understand from the metropolitan police. Yes there has been what theyre describing as an incidence on London Bridge they are dealing with that incident were bringing you this news in real time of course we were speaking earlier with al jazeera is paul rayner on the phone he was staying in the London Bridge bar a market area at less if he can cross no pole brennen pole is also in Central London for a sample can you hear is can you bring us an update on whats happening where you are. Yes i can hear you know weve been moved weve been moved back there is more are coming down these escalators has been coming around a little to have a look down that road were going to move because the police have just extended the cordon to push us further back here in the bus station which is just outside the shard Building People will know that with after the south side of London Bridge now i spoke to a butcher Delivery Driver down there who had been basically told to get out of his van and run as quickly as possible hed seen a mound the ground in a large total he didnt actually see the incident in the sense that he didnt see why the man was on the ground but what he said was that hed heard several shots a couple shots initially and then a flurry of shots in quick succession on at that point he turned around the police were telling him to get out as pretty as possible now we are probably 400 meters away from London Bridge itself the police like i say have just extended the cordon and behind me you can see members of the public who can prevent it from going about their business they do in other evacuated from buildings nearby are prevented from waiting for their buses and trains and were going to move just down some Thomas Street and you can see down the end there of the police cars which are a bar or a market now why does that ring a bell because in 2017 of course viewers will remember the London Bridge attacked. A group of attackers came across London Bridge in a van crashed into the south side of the bridge and then jumped out with knives and started attacking people in that market area which you can see whether it be lights are flashing right now and thats another reason why the police are being extremely careful about this why will they move back so far at the moment it appears there is only one attacker involved ive also heard reports that there was a kind of scuffle between a group of people and this one person the circumstances that we simply dont know. Perhaps it was members of the public either being attacked by this person or seeing that he had a knife and was intent on doing some harm they were Good Samaritans and tried to intervene. With the waiting for more details on that at the moment relatively calm here although extremely tense absolutely and then as you were saying polands and of course unfortunately no stranger to these events especially in recent years and certainly that London Bridge attack 2 years ago certainly does country memories of the kinds of attacks that were unfortunately rather frequent sealants and at the time that this is. Its the capital of the u. K. Its a big city it certainly has a very high densely a this densely populated and especially at this time of day as we were hearing from ben earlier a lot of people in Central London a lot of people in that specific area just give us a sense of the the area where you are and the area where this this incident as police are describing it was unfolding. On a bridge a transport hub its one of the main terminal stations for people coming in from the southeast of england in order to come into london to work or as tourists obviously the shots. Tallest building in western europe and of course youve got places like tower bridge and major office blocks as well so its a combination of people that joris people are working as people who are just going out just shopping as well its a clear beautiful winters day here so people were out and about its about their normal business its friday were only 3 or 4 weeks before christmas so yeah there are plenty of people around to have this kind of incident happen so quickly and so suddenly and so shockingly clearly has its caused a real for a song here in London Bridge the. To ration of the instances is the way of knowing that the numbers unlike say the circumstances you know there was a rumor going around that there might be a bomb but thats not being confirmed at all and you know you hesitate to actually start to fuel those kind of speculation. And mislead people as to exactly what is going on the met Police Metropolitan police which is londons police force are scums telling people d to come to the Police Twitter account social media accounts for more details of the monsoon that will so to speak and that the police directed ourselves to find out more details at the moment what the police main priority is to make sure that cordon remains in place that people are safe and that they can investigate exactly what is going on themselves as you 2 eyewitnesses get this this person who is partly on the ground still on the bridge were not quite sure whether hes not dead or fatally injured or just not seriously injured at this point in time because were so far away you cant directly see it anymore theres a lot the police have to work on the priority from the general public come to a certain extent the media as well to make sure that were out of their way so they can do their work. We have been hearing from the police they have fire several people have been injured after a stabbing near London Bridge and there are certain they were still trying to get confirmation. Of numbers some local media are reporting that one person has been shot we are still trying to piece together all that information but you have been saying that eyewitnesses have told you that gunshots have been heard eyewitnesses near the London Bridge area of london poll were going to let you get back to finding some more about what has been happening were going to try and bring in laura frick she has a. She is a member of the public you stuck in a cafe near her remark. Laura is one of our journalists. As well laura thanks very much for being with us on the phone here just give us a sense of whats been happening for you youre actually trapped in a cafe near that area what have police been saying to you whats happening. Well yes i was accepting of regulations from on the phone companies where i was hiding. d basically my colleagues or a challenge and i work i think a bunch of our market and we had reports of gunshots and we basically didnt think the thing around us and then all of a sudden. You know 203046 you think oh such a running towards us claiming and all saying you know were gonna get away its a way suppose we joined and ran as fast as we could i fortunately got messed up. And i printed on the copy which is a copy. Where there were about 40 of us or trapped in there for some time not sure what was going on and places started to come and evacuated us from there and everyone who is there in saws and coffee shops and cafes hiding about the market was how to lay the area im now currently outside the market on public roads and i can see the police have cordoned off the area not letting anyone go towards. The shot where offices are. And i can see a still armed place before as well im i the are they holding you in a certain building laura or are they are they still evacuating buildings in the area right in the vicinity of this incident. They have regulated us from our market far as i can see people are Milling Around the streets people are on the 1st officer calling luck runs. But i cant see anyone in building that the punishment i can see is lots of people on the street looking very confused and trying to Police Officers to get a sense of what has happened but its very Little Information at the moment yet were still waiting on more information coming out all the metropolitan police in london so far we understand that they were called to a stabbing at premises near to London Bridge there has been speculation certainly but were unclear at this stage how many incidents there have been but this is clearly more youll be able to testify to this this is clearly serious that police are evacuating an area and evacuating whitening accords and as weve had 2 of our journalists already been moved on this is certainly something theyre taking very very seriously particularly given the history in this part of london and certainly the the attacks. Have been experienced in london over the past few years. Everyone around me of history taking very seriously people look extremely concerned and worried before we were at monmouth coffee hiding there were kids around me screaming and crying and the parents were holding them so it is obviously taken very seriously i was. There the night of the London Bridge attack a few years because the 1st entered my mind when i thought it was running towards. We had a high god set incident i thought are. Obviously too early to say what. Its happening here now and most of. The traditional back. Feels very similar to how it is that night under the bridge. Ok then weve just had an update now from the London Ambulance service the London Ambulance service say they have declared a major incidence and have a number of crews on the scene in london for viewers just joining us were breaking into regular programming to bring you news coming out of london the London Ambulance service say a Major Incident has been declared the police have confirmed they were called to a stabbing at premises near London Bridge at 1 58 pm local time we have been covering this with several journalists who are in the area trying to respond to reports and determine what has happened at paul brennan is live for us in Central London what more can you tell us at this stage. I mean. At the moment as you say a long time in the services to plot a Major Incident here in London Bridge the cordon has been put in place keeping us a few 100 meters away back now from the bridge joining me now is a person whos actually on the bridge at the time. Researching this and thomass hospital one of the local hospitals here tell me youre on a bus on the bridge to what happened was on the team bus and on going towards me and were stopped in traffic and all the sudden i see People Police officers running up the bridge people getting out of cars were getting off the buses. Going in their cars and then in their cars about in the buses trying to get off and i