Nintendo announced via livestream at E3 in California that Fortnite – which has more than 40 million players on PC, Xbox One, Playstation 4 and mobile phones – arrives on Nintendo Switch today.

For European players, it will be available to download from the NintendoeShop at around 11pm BST, and is out now in the US.

Nintendo also announced new games for its console Switch, including a mech-battle action game called Daemon X Machina 2019 and a fantasy strategy game called Fire Emblem: Three Houses, out next spring. A new entry in the popular Mario Party series, which blends video game and board game together, will be released on 5 October.

The Switch has sold 17.8m consoles so far.