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Fortnite Season 3 Floods The Map, Adds Aquaman

Fortnite’s Season 3 is here, at long last, and things look different. The map is flooded, a giant shark keeps landing on me, and there are more NPCs to fight. As suspected, the battle royale island is now largely covered in water. While the landmarks seem much the same, many of them are now islands.…

Fortnite Breaks Twitch’s All-Time Concurrent Viewer Record After Locking Tons Of Players Out Of Event [UPDATE]

Today, Fortnite’s oft-delayed season-ending “Device” event finally took place, dotting the map with explosions before submerging it beneath the ocean. Over two million viewers tuned in on Twitch to watch the sea consume all, a grim preview of the future that also awaits the popular game map we call “Earth.” This means that Fortnite now…

Fortnite‘s Device Event Sank The Map

After several delays, Fortnite players finally got to see Midas’ doomsday clock hit zero. After a lot of fireworks and some dreamy trips to an alternate dimension, Fortnite’s island sank beneath the sea. In today’s event, called “The Device,” NPC henchmen could be heard panicking before the event began. After the countdown ended, pillars lifted…

Giant Space Ship Blows Up Very Slowly In Destiny 2‘s First Major Live Event

Destiny 2 had it’s first big Fortnite-style live event today with players crowding around to watch as the Almighty space ship that had been hurtling toward Earth all season was finally shot down. The only problem was it took forever. The live event kicked off at 1:00 p.m. ET with an in-game alert telling players…

Fortnite Season 3, Event Pushed Back Again

Fortnite’s next season, which was originally scheduled to launch on June 4 and then last week got delayed to June 11, has had its start date pushed back again in the face of ongoing unrest in the United States. The live event “The Device” will now arrive on June 15, followed by the beginning of…

Fortnite‘s Next Season Has Been Delayed A Week

Fortnite’s upcoming season was set to start June 4. In a post today, Epic Games delayed Season 3 to June 11. This weekend’s season-ending event has also been moved, to next Saturday, June 6. “In an effort to get everything ready for Chapter 2 – Season 3, we’re extending Season 2 by one week,” Epic…

Fortnite Winner Caught Cheating, Stripped Of Prize Money

Sekosama, the winner of the Asian leg of the The Fortnite Champion Series (FNCS), has been suspended from the game and had his prize money taken away after he was caught “teaming”, a co-operative act that’s banned in competitive play. The Japanese player has lost his $15,000 winnings, and will also serve a 14-day suspension.…

New Tenet Trailer Premieres In Fortnite, Which Is No Longer A Video Game

Tonight, a new trailer for Christopher Nolan’s upcoming film Tenet aired in Fortnite. The trailer was introduced by Geoff Keighley, because he’s the only consistency we have left in this topsy-turvy world. Keighley introduced the trailer, shown at Fortnite’s new Party Royale hub’s movie theater. He spoke with Tenet star John David Washington about his…

Fortnite Will Be On Xbox Series X and PS5 At Launch

Epic Games confirmed today that its massively popular battle royale Fortnite will be available to play on next-gen consoles as soon as they are out. It won’t be a new version of Fortnite. Instead it will be the one that currently exists, built in Unreal Engine 4, just running on new hardware. “While we can’t…

Political Consultant Suggests Rallying Dems With Giant, Fortnite-Style Holographic Biden

Former Pete Buttigieg campaign advisor Lis Smith cited “Travis Scott’s takeover of Fortnite” as a strategy for Democrats to consider when it comes time for the party’s National Convention in August. Because if you’re not already excited about Joe “30330” Biden, maybe parachuting around his giant digital head will do the trick. “Stefan Smith, who…

Fortnite‘s Party Royale Concert Was Just What We Needed Tonight

Tonight, Fortnite’s new non-violent Party Royale mode held its first big event, a concert of three different EDM musicians. It was more modest than in-game events we’ve seen recently, but, like so many Fortnite events I feel too old for, its exuberant charm won me over. Dillon Francis, Steve Aoki, and Deadmau5 played short sets…

Nine-Year-Old Fortnite Player Banned For Four Years

Zenon, a very good Fortnite player from Brazil who also happens to be just nine years old, has received a four-year competitive ban from Epic after the company found out he was playing in paid tournaments while under the game’s minimum age limit. Only this week Zenon had entered, and placed, in a round of…

Lightsabers are temporarily back in Fortnite, Epic announced in a tweet today. Just in time for Star Wars Day, so far I’ve found one in a chest. 

In case you hadn’t guessed, there won’t be a 2020 Fortnite World Cup, the Fortnite Competitive Twitter account announced today. In a Twitter thread, the account provided more details about Cash Cups and FNCS.

Fortnite‘s Party Royale Mode Adds A Map, Removes Building And Weapons

Following a leak this morning, Fortnite’s latest mode is now live in the game. The Party Royale mode features a small new island map. Instead of building and shooting, players go fishing, do time trials, and just hang out. Rumors of Party Royale spread this morning following Fortnite’s 12.50 patch, with some saying the new…

Over 12 Million People Just Watched A Wild Travis Scott Show In Fortnite

Rapper Travis Scott just made an appearance for the first of five shows he’ll be starring in for Fortnite, and if you’re a fan of either of those things—like the millions of people who tuned in to watch—it was one hell of an event. While only running for around ten minutes, and focused on the…

Epic Caves And Releases Fortnite On Google’s Store, Has Weird Opinions About Android Apps

Fortnite was released on Android devices around 18 months ago, but only as a standalone download, not as part of Google’s Play Store. That puts apps at a big disadvantage because people only tend to download apps through an official store, so Epic has finally relented and made Fortnite available there In a statement sent…

Fortnite’s current season will end on June 4, Epic announced in a blog post today. The developer wrote, “We have multiple game updates on the way that will deliver fresh gameplay, new Challenges, bonus XP, and a couple more surprises up our sleeve!”

Fortnite’s 12.20 update brings a helicopter, changes to Pleasant Park and the Oil Rig, and the addition of locker presets. Spy Games are also live: players choose a faction and play an LTM called Operation to secure Intel, which unlocks weapons and skills that can be used during the matches. Players can change factions at…

Down The Strange, Sometimes Upsetting Rabbit Hole Of Twitch Streamers’ TikToks

Over the past 72 hours, I’ve spent an ungodly amount of time watching TikToks created by Twitch streamers. It all began with a simple question: Can people whose whole line of work is built around creating the lengthiest, least-filtered form of pop culture possible excel in a medium where minimalism thrives? TikTok is a video…