The Fortnite parental control allowing parents to regulate their children’s playtime more effectively. This move reflects a broader trend within the gaming industry, towards addressing concerns about video game addiction and maintaining a healthier balance between screen time and reality.

Epic Games on Tuesday began letting parents limit how long, and when, their children can play blockbuster video game Fortnite.

If your tween or teen has been playing Fortnite all night, there's now a way to control how long they're on the game, and even cut them off.

Epic is allowing parents to put a hard limit on overall time spent in Fortnite per day, along with other restrictions.

New controls are being put into place to ensure that kids will know when it's time to hop off Epic's eternally popular game, which can probably be used to limit adult consumption, too. That paternal figure of games media,

Kids will get a heads-up 30 minutes before playtime ends, while parents can keep tabs on how much they're gaming via a Time Reports dashboard.

Today, Epic Games announced on their blog a new restriction parents can place on Fortnite, allowing them to control when it's time for their children to log off.

Parents and guardians of Fortnite-obsessed kids can now set in-game time limits for how long children can play. Time Limit Controls, introduced to Fortnite today, do exactly what they say on the tin.