FORTNITE EFFECT

For kids, Fortniteis still the game of the moment. Not that this comes as any surprise, since it has everything going for it. It’s free it’s immediate, tension-filled, complex, rewarding, and every season adds events and new features to explore. It’s a good game!

And like every game kids love, many parents are terrified by it. A visit to the UK parenting forum Mumsnet immediately surfaces threads such as, “Does your kid into an arsehole too?” and “F*#@ing … ruining our lives”. They describe their kids “turning into monsters” while playing, and introduced new tension into my household, and it’s made me realise that my attitude to my kids playing games like it is a lot less laissez-faire than I ever thought it would be.