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Fortnite‘s Tilted Towers Temporarily Had An Address On Google: The Freedom Tower

I stumbled upon something strange today while writing up a story about how the Fortnite cube crushed a building in Tilted Towers. Looking up an image of Tilted Towers on Google brought up a listing for a real world address. But it wasn’t just any address; it was the site of One World Trade Center,…

Fortnite‘s Cube Destroys The Game’s Unluckiest Building [Update: It’s Sunk Into Loot Lake Now]

Last month, the giant rift in Fortnite’s sky closed and spat out a giant alien cube that’s stomping around the map. Players are eagerly tracking each new move, wondering what will happen when it finally stops. The cube’s latest route took it through Tilted Towers, where it destroyed what might just be Fortnite’s unluckiest building.…

Fortnite‘s Creators Initially Thought Rocket-Riding Was A Bug

When Fortnite developers released the game’s notorious rocket launcher, surely they knew they had designed a fatal long-range weapon. Always crafty, Fortnite players quickly discovered something else about these rockets: They’re nifty ways to get around the map. As it turns out, they’d stumbled upon something Fortnite’s developers hadn’t planned for. Today, Apple published an…

Epic Drops Video Capture From Fortnite On Switch, Cites Performance Issues

Earlier today, Epic released a new content update for Fortnite that, among other things, vaulted the game’s overpowered drum gun. Something else went missing though, at least for Switch players: the ability to use the system’s video capture while playing the game. After the new update was pushed out early this morning, Fortnite players on…

Fortnite Streamer Myth Pushes Back Against Twitch Chat’s ‘Overwhelming’ Negativity

Ali “Myth” Kabbani is the second most-followed streamer on Twitch, but he’s also just a 19 year-old kid—one who, unlike most other 19 year-old kids, has to deal with boatloads of hate every day. Now he’s putting his foot down. Myth first rose to popularity thanks to his superhuman Fortnite building skills. He helped popularize…

Fortnite Monopoly Replaces Boardwalk With Tilted Towers

Monopoly is a board game that regularly ends with you cursing out your family. In the upcoming Fortnite edition, which leaked earlier today and was later confirmed by Epic Games, at least you’ll be able to take them out until you’re the last one standing. The Fortnite edition of Monopoly was briefly available to pre-order…

Fornite‘s New Getaway Mode Is A Fast-Paced Comedy Of Errors

Fortnite’s newest limited-time mode, Getaway, feels a bit like a mini-crash course in everything you need to know if you want to win in the main battle royale. The capture the flag-esque mode is full of dangerous drops and surprising turns of fortune. Matches are short but packed with new surprises. If you wanted something…

After An Unlikely Tie, Fortnite Summer Skirmish Grand Finalist Got Determined By Coin Flip

Yesterday, two Fortnite players tied for the 33rd qualifying spot in today’s Summer Skirmish grand finals: The_Real_Cryohme and SSG Colton. The 33rd slot wins a minimum of $5,000 and the potential to win far more; today’s first prize winner will take home $225,000. Only 33 players could advance to the final stage, though. Epic Games…

Popular PUBG Streamers Face Off This Weekend In The Broadcaster Royale Finals

The three-day finals for Broadcaster Royale, a PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds tournament featuring 80 duo teams of streamers from around the world, unfolds this weekend at PAX West’s Paramount Theater. The matches start today at 2 pm ET, streaming on the Broadcaster Royale Twitch channel and also on each competitor’s individual Twitch channel. Several well-known PUBG players…

Fortnite Players Want To Know Where The Cube Is Headed

Last week, the giant rift in Fortnite’s sky started spewing lightning until it finally dropped a glowing alien cube on the map. The cube has started moving and changing the landscape, encouraging players to sleuth out where it’s ultimately headed and what will happen when it gets there. The saga technically started back in May…

Kids Are Getting Fortnite Dancing Lessons

Look at ‘em go. Count this as your daily reminder that this game, launched to crickets and the sound of a gentle breeze before it released a spinoff Battle Royale mode at just the right time, is now more than a video game in a way that only maybe Minecraft and Pokemon Go have managed…

Fortnite Streamers Make A Ninja Warrior Course

Fortnite not challenging enough for you? Some players upped the difficulty by adding a Ninja Warrior-esque obstacle course to the game. Ninja Warrior is a popular game show that originated in Japan before being adapted into a show in the US. It consists of a series of grueling obstacle courses that are vaguely ninja-themed. Contestants…

Fortnite Is Getting A Competitive Mode

Do you believe yourself to be the very best at surviving in an environment where a) everybody wants to kill you, and b) they’re all reality-bending architecture-mancers? Well, soon you’ll have a chance to prove it. Epic is finally adding a competitive mode to Fortnite this fall. Epic made the announcement in a state of…

Fortnite‘s Rift Is Shooting Lightning And No One Knows Why [Update: Rift Closes, Giant Alien Cube Appears]

During Fornite Battle Royale’s last season, a giant rocket launched and cracked the sky wide open, tearing the game’s space-time apart. When Season Five hit—adding a new desert area to the map—the rift seemed to die down, but now it’s blasting the ground with massive lightning strikes. Update— 5:40pm: After countless lightning strikes, the rift…

Fortnite Now Lets You Thank The Bus Driver

Change.org signatures normally aren’t worth the paper they’re not printed on, but here’s an example of one actually working: only weeks after a campaign to allow players to thank the game’s bus driver, Fortnite now includes the ability to do just that. The original petition, first circulated in July and based on the “Thank the…

Fortnite’s Latest Update Brings An Actual Movie To Its Drive-In Theater

I have yet to make it through the entire three minute fan movie currently playing on loop in the northeastern part of Fortnite’s map without getting shot in the back, but that’s part of the fun. The game’s V5.30 patch hit earlier today, bringing new items and modes, as well as a working projector to…

Fortnite Now Gives You A Reward If You Turn On Two-Factor Authentication

I have avoided the depths of distraction that ensnare millions of people who download Fortnite. I don’t play much. But I do get the emails telling me people are trying to hack my account and have finally done something about it. A quick survey of Kotaku staff indicates that getting security warnings from Epic is…

Boy Band Sells Fortnite After Disgraced Member Leaves Group

Tokio, one of Japan’s most famous boy bands, experienced a shakeup this past spring when member Tatsuya Yamaguchi was kicked out of the group, turning the five-member group into a foursome. A scandal broke earlier this year with Yamaguchi apologizing for forcing himself on a schoolgirl at his Tokyo residence. “She probably could not decline…

The latest Fortnite update, patch v5.21, went live this morning adding a new limited time mode called Soaring 50s, the Heavy Sniper Rifle discovered previously by data miners, and a sniper only mode. Soaring 50s is the usual 50 vs. 50 mode but with the ability to re-deploy gliders.

It appears that a bug allows traps to work through walls in Fortnite currently. A video posted by Reddit user mynameisdiehard is pretty conclusive, and multiple other users in the thread confirm it as well. Be careful while you’re sneaking around!