Video games such as Fortnite aren't harming children – screen time is the problem | Keza MacDonald

Some products really are designed to addict your child. But this latest bogeyman is not among them

Every few years, a video game gets so popular with children that someone decides there must be something wrong with it. When I was a kid, it was Poki(C)mon; when my stepson was little, it was Minecraft; now, of course, it is Fortnite, a colourful, battle royal-style shooter that's currently so popular that pop star Drake and footballer Dele Alli are fans.

When children get into things, they tend to do so quite intensely. (The concerningly detailed diagrams of the insides of Egyptian pyramids that I drew when I was nine are testament to that.) There is nothing wrong with a kid getting so into Fortnite that she wants to play it all the time; it's just passion.