Could Fortnite be responsible for England’s World Cup success so far?

Fortnite’s coming home

Sunday evening.

Big man Harry Kane is sat on the sofa in the England camp, World Cup trophy sat to his right, Golden Boot to his left. But he only has eyes for the screen in front of him. His lovely lips, that hours ago formed the words of the national anthem, now say something entirely different.

“Where we dropping boys?”

“Tilted Towers,” Dele Alli’s comforting tones come through his headset.

“Sounds good,” Jesse Lingard and Kieran Trippier are in.

England and Tottenham’s star striker jumps out of a cartoon flying bus, dropping rapidly into a city made only of pixels.

Sure, winning the World Cup was great, as is the inevitable knighthood that he expects upon his return, but for weeks he had been dreaming of an entirely different win. He wanted to be the last alive, armed with a rocket launcher and sat in a fort rapidly made of scavenged bricks, he wanted to revive his England and Fortnite teammates, he wanted to see those words Victory Royale emblazoned in yellow across his screen just one more time.

Fortnite is hugely popular among children, adults, and anyone in between alike, and is one of those games that…