Fortnite

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! 

Twitch Streamer Unbans Fan After They Write 1,000 Word Apology Letter

A few days ago, Fortnite streamer Ben “DrLupo” Lupo found himself in a situation that’s become regrettably common on Twitch. A subscriber called him “cancer.” He banned them, but with a caveat: if they wrote an apology letter, they could come back. DrLupo, a frequent playing partner of Twitch’s top streamer Ninja, has risen to…

The Weekend In Esports: Smash Never Stops

It’s a muggy, sleepy summer here in video game land, but esports does not rest. This weekend brings us a packed lineup of Smash, League, Heroes, and Fortnite, as well as multiple PUBG and Rocket League tournaments. Super Smash Brothers While most other fighting game pros are still catching up on sleep after Evo 2018…

The Keemstar vs Fortnite saga continues. Today Keem protested Epic’s Fortnite Summer Skirmish with a campaign to get Minecraft more Twitch viewers. Keem said that it might be a “big fail,” and it kinda was. While Keem’s chat yelled at him for playing wrong, Minecraft peaked at over 20,000. Fortnite had 230,000. It was an…

Fortnite Comes To Android Today, But There Are Catches

The last major gaming platform without Fortnite: Battle Royale will get an invite-only beta version of the ultra-popular multiplayer shooter starting today. It’s just not coming to every Android user yet. First catch: At first, beta invites are only going out to people who own Samsung Galaxy phones, surely the sign of an exclusivity deal…

Lil Yachty Responds To His Fortnite Haters: ‘I’m A Millionaire’

Lil Yachty isn’t the most conventional rapper, but he can rap. Of this there is no doubt. Can the 20-year-old star play Fortnite, though? Not well, say his Twitch followers. Not well. The boat-est of all time has been heavily involved with Fortnite this year, playing with Myth at Epic’s E3-adjacent Fortnite Pro-Am, teaming up…

Fortnite’s patch 5.20 is out. It brings a new weapon, the double barrel shotgun; rebalanced vending machines; and a new limited time mode, Steady Storm, in which the storm never stops moving. Check out the full patch notes to see all the changes

How Myth Became Twitch’s Second Most Popular Streamer

For most streamers, “making it” on Twitch is a painstakingly slow process, a years-long grind that reduces even iron resolves to rubble. And while there’s no doubting that Ali “Myth” Kabbani worked hard, he reached the top of the mountain on a, well, accelerated time scale. As of yesterday, Myth became the second most-followed streamer…

Fortnite Player Wins $86,000, Gets Supportive Dad Speech

Fortnite streamer Reverse2k won big in last night’s Summer Skirmish, a weekly tournament that Epic is running all summer, but the real prize was an emotional call from a dad. The clip shows it all: Reverse2k is talking to his dad, who opens up the convo with an exclamation of “Eighty six fucking thousand dollars?…

Epic Will Keep Fortnite Off Google’s Store To Make More Money

Epic Games has confirmed that when Fortnite Battle Royale releases on Android phones it won’t be sold through the Google Play store. In an email to The Verge, CEO Tim Sweeney said this was in part to avoid the 30% cut Google takes on in-app purchases for games sold through its storefront. “The 30 percent…

Fortnite’s new update is now live, bringing back a nerfed Guided Missile and Jetpacks in a new limited time mode aptly titled “Fly Explosives.” Both are also now available in Playground Mode. Slurp Juice is also back after last week’s update broke it. I had some this morning. It was good.  

Hell Is Watching Smash Bros. Characters Dance Like They’re In Fortnite

Our time on this planet is limited, but please spend a moment of it feasting on the internet’s latest abomination. YouTuber Master0fHyrule has made a lot of videos about Super Smash Bros. Usually they’re just lists, like this one showing off every character’s taunt or this other one showing off every character’s taunt in reverse.…

Fan Recreates The Most Emotional Moment In Cinema History In Fortnite Tribute

Reddit user WintrrShadow has memorialized the the recent map and gear changes in Fortnite by editing a video to the style and tone of the final scene of Furious 7  The ending of Furious 7 is, as far as I am concerned, the most emotional moment in cinema history. Actor Paul Walker tragically died while…

Fortnite Gets Guided Missiles Back, And They’re Less Likely To Dominate

Fun: riding a guided missile right into some unsuspecting goon’s face. Not fun: being the unsuspecting goon whose face eats said missile. This simple and universal truth handily illustrates the problem with Fortnite’s guided missiles, which were yanked in April. Today, Epic announced that they’re finally coming back. Guided missiles were equal parts beloved and…

Fortnite Funeral Goes As Badly As The Rescue It Memorialized

Last week in Fortnite, an in-game rescue attempt to help a trapped player went awry. The incident achieved near-memetic status, and Epic added a tombstone into the game commemorating the fallen player. Now, players hold mock funerals, and they’re going just as poorly as the bungled rescue. It all started when the streamer Muselk happened…

Fortnite’s New Update Nerfs Fort Building [UPDATE]

Fortnite’s latest update has made the skill of building forts or any other structures less relevant to success, leaving some players to lament that the thing that makes Fortnite’s unique is slowly disappearing. Update V5.10, released July 23, nerfed the building materials used to make walls, floors and any other structures in the game. Stat…

Fortnite’s Slurp Juice Removed Because It Was Making People Invincible

Fortnite’s newly improved Slurp Juice—basically a healing potion—has been temporarily removed from the game after players discovered an animation bug that let them run around with full health and boosts. As this video from Fortnite Insider shows, players found that by cancelling the drinking animation before it was finished they’d be able to both attain the…