{"id":780964,"date":"2026-09-24T10:36:09","date_gmt":"2026-09-24T10:36:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780964\/"},"modified":"2026-09-24T10:36:09","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T10:36:09","slug":"gamer-granny-is-oldest-female-fortnite-streamer-in-world-record-book","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/780964\/","title":{"rendered":"Gamer granny is oldest female Fortnite streamer in world record book"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cath said she loves the challenge the game gives her and plays it every day.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">She told the BBC&#8217;s <a href=\"https:\/\/www.bbc.co.uk\/sounds\/play\/m0031vg8\" class=\"ssrcss-1e0jzsh-InlineLink e1kn3p7n0\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Radio Scotland Breakfast <\/a>programme: &#8220;It&#8217;s a lovely, lovely game. The one I play is Battle Royale Last Man Standing and you go into it either as a solo, duo or squad. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;You&#8217;re trying to get the better of your opponents and eliminate them.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;But there&#8217;s no blood on the scene &#8211; you just shoot somebody and they either crawl about until they die or they&#8217;re just obliterated with the one shot.  So there isn&#8217;t any mess &#8211; nothing like that.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Cath said the community of people playing the game was more important than the game itself.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;I play with some wonderful folk &#8211; from the UK, quite a few from the USA, from Canada, New Zealand and Australia,&#8221; she said. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s super meeting all these folk. The chat we have, it&#8217;s lovely &#8211; I&#8217;ve had folk with me for quite a few years now.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Alice Bell, editor of Guinness World Records Gamer&#8217;s Edition 2027, said: &#8220;At Guinness World Records we believe gaming is for everyone.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;This edition showcases gamers of different generations and cultures from around the world.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cath said she loves the challenge the game gives her and plays it every day. She told the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":780965,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59,86,56,54,55],"class_list":["post-780964","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-technology","tag-gb","tag-technology","tag-uk","tag-united-kingdom","tag-unitedkingdom"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780964","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=780964"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/780964\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/780965"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=780964"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=780964"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/uk\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=780964"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}