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Player Makes Mario Kart-Style Racetrack In Fortnite

Fortnite’s Playground mode is a good way for players to practice their skills among friends, but it’s also becoming fertile ground for ambitious creations. Instead of building towers to snipe from, players can build non-competitively, similar to a shared Minecraft server. As a result, you can get glorious monuments like “Tilted Track,” a Mario Kart-inspired…

After nearly a week in downtime, Fortnite’s much-anticipated Playground mode is back online. It’s a Minecraft-like environment for Fortnite players to practice their building and shooting skills. Here’s how it works

Fortnite Player Snags Kill Record By Wrecking Crowd Of Rocket-Watchers

In Fortnite, the best player doesn’t always win out. Sometimes, the worst does. A new Fortnite kill record was set this weekend by an arguably unscrupulous player who griefed 48 unsuspecting victims watching Fortnite’s one-time-only rocket launch event On Saturday, players logged into Fortnite en masse to witness a rocket speed into the atmosphere and…

Fortnite Rocket Launches, Cracks The Sky

The rocket that has been counting down in Fortnite finally launched at 1:30 EDT today, and what happened afterward was a little weirder than anyone was expecting. When I logged into the game, I could hear a klaxon blaring every few seconds, and before long the ground started to shake with only what I can…

Fan Calculations About Fortnite‘s Big Missile Event Were Off By A Day

Fortnite is no stranger to countdowns and theatrics, but this weekend’s mysterious (though probably missile-related) event is a little different. It’s happening just once. Fans thought they’d pinned down exactly when, but today Epic announced the actual date: one day before fans had calculated. This much is certain: Something is about to happen. In-game TVs…

EA, Put This World Cup Blooper In FIFA, Please

Belgian forward Michy Batshuayi was celebrating his team’s goal earlier today against England when things went bad. (If the Twitter version won’t load, here it is on YouTube) Maybe a Fortnite dance might have been a better option, dude. If Epics battle royale wasn’t right for the moment, then we can only hope EA Sports…

Fortnite Players Build Massive Pyramid

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Fortnite Player Destroys Tilted Towers In A Single Shot

Fortnite’s notorious Tilted Towers—a high-risk, high-reward landing spot once described as “tryhard central” by erstwhile Kotaku editor/genius Patricia Hernandez—have been a target of players’ grimmest imaginings ever since rumors that they’d be obliterated by a comet started swirling in March. But still they stand. So one player took matters into their own hands. A Fortnite…

Fortnite‘s New Playground Mode Is Live And Here’s How It Works (Update: It’s Back Up)

Fortnite’s long-awaited “Playground” mode is finally live this morning. It’s a freeform, Minecraft-like practice mode that will feel crucial to players who want a less chaotic environment in which to git gud. As Kotaku posts this, Fortnitejust announcedthe mode is down for repairs while they “investigate some issues with our matchmaking services.” [Update—9:00 am ET,…

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds Creators Drop Lawsuit Over Fortnite

Last month, Kotaku reported that South Korea’s PUBG Corp., the studio behind PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds, was suing Epic Games, the developer of Fortnite, for copyright infringement. PUBG Corp. has now withdrawn its lawsuit. Earlier this week, PUBG Corp. sent a withdrawal letter to Epic Games, the studio behind Fortnite. According to Bloomberg, the court case is…

It seems like Fortnite is gonna have a missile launch in the near future. Players have been setting their clocks forward to July 1 and finding that in-game TVs display the word “launch,” among other telltale signs. If leaks are any indication, the missile could modify the map, like the comet at the start of…

Realm Royale Mixes Wizards And Warriors With Fortnite

When hero shooter Paladins announced a battle royale mode, it felt a bit like a tacked on extra to a game struggling for identity. That battle royale mode has transformed into a standalone game, Realm Royale. While it’s still in alpha and rough around the edges, Realm Royale has a few good ideas that could…

‘Just Build lol’ Might Not Be Fortnite’s Winning Strat Much Longer

There are a hell of a lot of ways to win a Fortnite game, but the most reliable strat has gotten a little too reliable, says publisher Epic Games. In a blog post yesterday, Epic explained that they’ll be shaking things up a little, so players will need to get a little more resourceful. Fortnite’s…

Alliteration Algorithm Generates Genius Fortnite Frivolity

From recipes to paint color names to Hearthstone cards, everything is better when you make a bot do it. Check out how this machine-learning algorithm named locations on the Fortnite map. Fortnite only has one map, so the people over at Botnik Studios took it upon themselves to use their machine-learning tools to make an…

People Keep Trying To Win Fortnite Without Weapons

Winning a game of Fortnite is impressive on its own. Winning a game of Fortnite with no weapons is bonkers. The last person standing in the 100-person survival shooter wins it all. Most of the time, this takes a combination of gun skill, fort-building finesse and tactics. It’s not a thing a lot of people…

Battle Passes Are So Hot Right Now

Pay-to-win games are garbage. Loot boxes are passe. Cosmetics are cute, but not a great incentive to keep playing. Game publishers have cycled through a bevy of monetization gimmicks aimed at keeping gamers putting cash into their games, some more successful than others. Now, more and more of them seem to be coalescing around a…

Video Game Becomes Popular, World Panics

In the past few months, a video game has become popular among young people, prompting experts and commentators around the world to decide that there must be something dangerous about it. Newspaper columnists, education commentators and politicians are variously claiming that the Popular Video Game is having a detrimental effect on children; that it’s encouraging…

Fortnite‘s Shopping Cart Woes: A Timeline

Shopping carts are, at this point, Fortnite’s only vehicle. You can ride on them solo or with a friend, and they give you a slight speed boost. Simple enough, right? Wrong. Epic has now pulled them temporarily from the game three different times. Today, just when you thought they were in, Epic pulled them back…

Fortnite just got Stink Bombs, super-rare grenades that deal five damage every half-second anyone is in the stink cloud. We don’t know yet whether they’ll pass our sniff test—they’re hard to find—but we hope we won’t get hurt in the process! 

Ninja Takes Two-Day Break, Loses 40,000 Subscribers

Tyler “Ninja” Blevins might be on top of the streaming world right now, but even he’s not immune to being yanked back down to earth by the sometimes absurdly demanding realities of the job. For the past couple days, Ninja’s been living it up at E3, retweeting several thousand pictures people have taken with him…