CARY – Epic Games brought season 10 of its global mega hit Fortnite to a big bang of a close over the weekend. It disappeared into a black hole after an explosion – and to the mystery of its multi-million-strong audience, the site remains dark.

Also dark is the Twitter page that has more than 9 million followers and the Instagram page linked to the game, which has generated billions of dollars in revenue for the privately held gaming technology company.

Even the Fortnite logo is black on the Twitter page. On Instagram, the Fortnite page includes a series of all-black images as well as the black hole.

Epic, which has been sued in Canada because the game is alleged to be addictive, remains mum about what’s happening even as some of the Fortnite followers spent time watching a live stream of that black hole.

The season-ending event was touted as “The End.”

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So far, Epic isn’t commenting about the mystery, leading some Twitter followers aghast and speculating about what’s really happening.

Is Fortnite truly over?

What happened Sunday was hardly the expected. Around 2 p.m., CNN reports, “a rocket on the island where Fortnite is set blew up the landscape in the game and dragged all of the players into a black hole, leaving nothing but a mostly dark screen and a spinning black hole and no way for users to play.”

Tech news site Cnet reports that, “It looks like Fortnite has ended.”

Then comes the caveat:

“For now.”

A game industry expert told CNN that Epic’s “black hole” event is a creative masterpiece.

“Epic Games are geniuses,” he said.

“Fortnite Season 10 is coming to an end, and all of this is hype for Season 11,” he added. “Instead of just the standard update approach that Epic does for Fortnite … which is going down for a few hours to apply an update, Epic has created an entire marketing and social media campaign, along with a narrative story around it.”

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Epic reportedly has made hundreds of millions of dollars in profits from Fortnite since its launch two years ago. The success has turned Epic into a multi-billion-dollar company and its owner, Tim Sweeney, into a billionaire, according to a wide variety of media reports.

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