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6 New English from BBCLearningEnglish.com Hello and welcome to 6 Minute English.
I'm Neil.
Hello, I'm Catherine.
And if I say to you, Catherine, Fortnite, what do you think of?
Well, that's easy, Neil.
A Fortnite is a period of two weeks.
Well, Fortnite spelled F-O-R-T-N-I-G-H-T is indeed a period of two weeks.
But Fortnite spelled F-O-R-T-N-I-T-E is an online computer game that has become incredibly popular in a very short period of time.
As well as popular, it's also very competitive.
And you're soon going to be able to make big money playing it.
And you can even hire people to be your Fortnite coach.
Well, before we hear a little more about this topic,
it's time for our quiz.
These days, we play computer games on our phones.
We can hold them in our hands.
In 1950, Bertie the Brain was the name of one of the very first computer games.
It played a simple game of naughts and crosses,
also called tic-tac-toe.