Fortnite

YouTuber’s Lifetime Fortnite Ban Opens Conversation About Fair Punishments For Cheating

Jarvis Khattri, a YouTube content creator for the esports organization FaZe Clan, received a lifetime ban from Fortnite earlier this week after releasing a video of him cheating in the mega-popular battle royale shooter. This has since given way to discussion about the severity of the punishment and whether content creators whose livelihoods depend on…

You Can Use Fortnite‘s Fishing Pole On Land Now, Apparently

In this weekend’s Fortnite Championship Series tournament, player Tfue found a new use for the fishing rod when he used it to grab weapons and materials from afar in the middle of a fight. This appears to be a feature, not a bug. The fishing rod was introduced in Fortnite’s Chapter Two. Its primary use…

Teenage Fortnite Pro Swatted Live On Stream

Fortnite pro Cody “Clix” Conrod—who is only 14 years old—was in the middle of a Fortnite Championship Series game on the weekend when his home was swatted. As Dexerto report, Conrod announced to viewers watching mid-stream that he would have to be leaving the match. “Police are here…yo, I just got swatted…one second, I gotta…

Epic Suing Former Tester For Revealing Fortnite Spoilers

Epic Games is in the process suing a former tester for spoiling some of Fortnite’s big Chapter Two reveal secrets. As Polygon reports, Epic filed the suit last week in North Carolina, alleging that former tester Ronald Sykes, who had played loads of the Chapter Two content back in September, began tweeting at other Fortnite…

It looks like Fortnite has made some changes to XP with its recent 11.01 patch. As reported by Eurogamer, you now receive more XP for challenges, medals, and matches. Medals, for instance, are now worth 8k and 16k instead of their original 2k and 4k. This is a welcome change for many players who found…

Facing Burnout, Stress, And Health Issues, Top Twitch Streamers Are Taking Extended Breaks

Last year during E3, streaming megastar Tyler “Ninja” Blevins took two days off from his regular schedule. A blip on the radar in the grand scheme of things. It cost him 40,000 paying subscribers. This seemed to issue a grim warning to other streamers: Take time off at your own peril. Recently, though, it’s begun…

Fortnite‘s Mythic Goldfish Is Powerful But Rare

Some of Fortnite’s new achievements are trickier to unlock than others. There are three achievements for using an item called a Mythic Goldfish, but that’s easier said than done. Fortnite Chapter 2 has three achievements related to an item called a Mythic Goldfish: one for catching it, one for eliminating players with it, and one…

So You’re Into Fortnite Now

While those of us who play Fortnite were riveted to last weekend’s black hole, the rest of the world watched us watching it in confusion and, in some cases, curiosity. Almost two days later, when the game finally came back online, many of my friends—and many of you, in the comments—asked if you should get…

Fortnite Trick Lets You Survive The Storm [Updated]

Players are still discovering all the changes in Fortnite’s chapter 2, which means of course they’re finding exploits. A newly discovered one lets you use the shield-granting waters of Slurpy Swamp to avoid taking storm damage. As reported by Dexerto, the trick works like this: go to Slurpy Swamp, a new area of the map…

What Is Fortnite And Who Is Ninja, Wonders Lady Gaga

Lady Gaga is one of the most accomplished musicians of all time. Ninja plays video games for millions of people online. If this isn’t the biggest crossover in the history of pop culture, I don’t know what is. I write about video games for a living and barely know what the heck Fortnite is all…

Here’s What’s New In Fortnite‘s Chapter 2

Fortnite Chapter 2 is finally here, and the mystery deepens: developer Epic has only released some vague patch notes, as opposed to the usual detailed rundown of changes that accompanies each season. While it’s been fun to discover things for myself, it has also been confusing. Here are some changes I’ve noticed or seen players…

Fortnite‘s Black Hole Is Over, Chapter Two Begins [Updating]

After roughly a day and a half, Fortnite’s black hole is over. Despite the anticipation for a big event, the server simply went offline. There it is. At around 4 a.m. Eastern, with thousands of people around the world staring at Fortnite’s swirling black hole, the game suddenly blinked to a loading screen, with a…

The Internet Reacts To Fortnite’s Blackout

Following its cataclysmic Season 10 end event, Fortnite’s colorful world was wiped away, replaced by a swirling black hole with a hidden minigame and occasional mysterious numbers. Currently, we’re still staring at the black hole. At least we can also look at Twitter.

There’s A Konami Code In Fortnite‘s Black Hole

If you, like me and the rest of the internet, are staring at Fortnite’s black hole waiting for something to happen, you can enter the Konami code to play a mini-game. It’s simple, but it beats sitting around. As captured by Fortnite News, entering the Konami code brings up an old-school shooter minigame where a…

Fortnite‘s Season 10 Event Seems To Have Ended Its World [Updating]

After weeks of anticipation, Fortnite’s big Season 10 event happened. Was the wait worth it? Yes. At the start of the event, the only available mode was a team fight called “The End.” In my match, players clustered around Dusty Depot’s rocket. At the end of the countdown, the rocket launched into the sky and…

Fortnite‘s World Is Full Of Fast Food, Which Makes Sense

This weekend could be the last hurrah for Fortnite’s current map, since Epic Games has described the season’s standard game-changing event as “the end.” I feel ready for a new map, but I hope it retains the game’s fast food icons and restaurants. They aren’t the biggest part of Fortnite’s lore, but they’re the perfect…

An image purported to be from Fortnite’s new map is circulating on Reddit. Seemingly via the Italian app store, a thumbnail for Fortnite “chapter 2” shows characters standing in front of a river with boats. There’s also a short sizzle reel. We’ll find out when Season 10 ends on Sunday at 2pm Eastern. (Correction 10/13/19—This…

Sixteen professional Fortnite players have started the Fortnite Professional Players’ Association. In an announcement tweet, they say they are an “independent world-wide collective…meant to provide us a platform to voice our opinions on the future of the competitive scene of Fortnite.”

A Canadian law firm is requesting to pursue a class action against Fortnite developer Epic for failing to disclose the game’s addictive properties. According to the CBC, the suit is based on a Canadian suit against tobacco companies and “makes note of the World Health Organization’s 2018 decision to classify video game addiction as a disease.”

Epic Hears Fortnite Players’ Concerns About Cross-Platform Matches, Is Doing It Anyway

Fortnite got skill-based matchmaking in a recent patch, a system that intends to put players of similar skill in games together. Players quickly noticed that the new matchmaking queued players up across different platforms, even though this wasn’t mentioned in the patch notes. Today, Epic addressed the issue and said that things are working as…