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Teens And Teachers Say Fortnite Mobile Is Destroying Some Schools

For months now, teachers everywhere have heard students talk about Fortnite, the world’s latest obsession, nonstop. While the popularity of the game is nothing new, its release on iOS has apparently only made things more intense. Fortnite is now a huge distraction you can now take anywhere, after all. Many schools have rules against cell phones,…

What’s Really Going On With All Those Hacked Fortnite Accounts

In small fits and spurts, a Fortnite hacker recently typed out some sentence fragments over Discord: “maybe tomorrow / i get a letter / from epic games / holy fuck / paying 25k for fraud.” What if, after a month of lucrative work, Epic Games shut him down with a firm letter from their lawyers?…

Fortnite Player Gets Cocky

Today on Highlight Reel we have Jojo references, PUBG pans, Fortnite rocket snipes and much more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube for more! Catch up on all…

Fortnite‘s New Blitz Mode Is Fast, Furious

Fortnite Battle Royale’s new Blitz mode makes the fast-paced survival shooter even faster and harder to survive in. It’s riotously fun for players who enjoy confrontation, but players who prefer more roundabout strategies might feel a little stressed out. The limited-time mode makes slight alterations to Fortnite Battle Royale’s theme that pick up the pace…

The Paul Brothers’ Attempt To Bandwagon Fortnite Turns Messy

Infamous YouTuber Logan Paul started a Twitch channel yesterday, and he reached 100,000 followers without streaming once. If you go to the channel right now, the chat alternates between spamming racial slurs and ascii penises. Following the Fortnite bandwagon has turned into a mess for the Paul brothers. The Paul brothers have a reputation for…

Players Are Putting Fortnite‘s New C4 Explosive To Good Use

Fortnite’s new remote minesare incredible fun, unless, of course, you’re on the other end of one. Released last night, the C4 mines are inspiring strategies that take down huge player-made buildings and wreck existing zones in exciting battles for area control. Detonating a C4 mine is simple. I’ve picked them up in packs of 4…

Fortnite On Mobile Is Tough, But It Works

Today, the hottest game on earth launched on the most ubiquitous device around. While Fortnite on mobile is only rolling out to a select group on iOS for testing purposes, I got a chance to play around with it some. I’ve walked away surprised at how well Fortnite runs on my phone, though it did…

The Internet Reacts To Ninja’s Fortnite Stream With Drake

Last night, Drake joined up with Ninja for a Fortnite stream, which reached over 600,000 concurrent views. Travis Scott and Juju Smith-Schuster also entered the fray. People were excited! There were reactions. Lots of them.

Over 600,000 People Have Tuned In To Watch Drake And Ninja Play Fortnite, Smashing Twitch’s Record [UPDATE]

We mentioned last week that Fortnite streamer Ninja has gotten so big that rapper Drake was following him on Instagram. Tonight, they hooked up for a game and it crushed the record for most concurrent viewers on a single stream for the service. After some initial communications issues, and some adorable fan freakout from Ninja’s…

Fortnite Streamer Goes For Glory, Faceplants, Wins Anyway

There’s a fine line between dedication and madness. Typically, people only decide which side of it you’re on after the fact, depending on whether you succeeded or ate shit. Popular streamer Shroud managed to do both. Shroud, an immensely skilled ex-CSGO pro who’s now dipping his PUBG-calloused toes into Fortnite’s waters, recently teamed up with…

Microsoft Says Sony Is Holding Back Fortnite Cross-Play

Fortnite: Battle Royale is the latest video game to have cross-platform play among some devices but just can’t link PlayStation and Xbox players. Funny how that keeps happening. Last week we learned that Fornite Battle Royale would be coming to mobile with cross-play between PS4, PC, Android, and iOS. Then, over the weekend in a…

Fortnite Players Are Getting Fraudulent Charges For Hundreds Of Dollars

Dozens of Fortnite players say hackers have infiltrated their accounts. Over the last month, players have noticed fraudulent charges of up to hundreds of dollars on their Epic Games accounts. Epic says it’s aware of the problem and is working to resolve it. Tyler, who plays Fortnite Battle Royale, says he received a text message…

Fortnite is getting cross-play and cross-progression between Xbox One, PC, Mac, iOS and, eventually, Android. The development team announced a similar set of features for the Playstation 4 earlier this week

How Fortnite Streamer Ninja Suddenly Took Over Twitch

When Tyler “Ninja” Blevins hit 100,000 subscribers on Twitch, he could barely form words. The streamer, sporting his trademark yellow headband, broke out into a fit of incredulous laughter before howling at the top of his lungs. But he had every right to lose his shit: after all, he’d just broken the all-time overall subscriber…

Fortnite Seems To Be Overtaking PUBG 

For a long time, the love affair between PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and Twitch looked like it was meant to last. The blockbuster survival shooter captured the hearts of Twitch’s biggest streamers all through 2017, and, in August, finallydethroned Twitch mainstay League of Legends in the “most hours watched” category (73.7 million to 71.9). Now, Battlegrounds is…

Fortnite Is Coming To Mobile, Will Support Cross-Platform Play

Epic just announced that Fortnite: Battle Royale is coming to Android and iOS. It’s not a weird conversion, or downsized experience either. Epic says “Fortnite is the same 100-player game you know from PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, and Mac. Same gameplay, same map, same content, same weekly updates.” There’s even talk of letting mobile…

Nightmare Man, You Take The Right Flank

Today on Highlight Reel we have Rainbow Six nightmares, touch of death combos, stab trains, and much more! Watch the video then talk about your favorite highlight in the comments below. Be sure to check out, like, and share the original videos via the links below. Subscribe to Kotaku on YouTube for more! Catch up…

I’m A Fortnite Meathead Who Hasn’t Learned How To Build Yet

As a battle royale shooter, Fortnite stands out from an increasingly saturated market by giving players the ability to craft structures, traps, and objects. Any player worth their salt will also probably tell you that you need to build in Fortnite if you want to be any good. And yet, dozens of hours into Fortnite,…

New Battlegrounds Map Will Be Smaller, Deadlier

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has slowly expanded with new weapons and an additional, somewhat controversial desert map. A new blog post by PlayerUnknown today outlines numerous upcoming changes to the game, the most interesting of which is a sneak peek at a chaotic-looking new map. In a blog post today, game director Brendan “PlayerUnknown” Greene outlined a…

I Thought Fortnite Battle Royale‘s ‘Stairway To Heaven’ Would Be A Good Idea

Among Fortnite Battle Royale players, there’s an oral culture of trading tricks: building zig-zag stairways along hillsides, searching every attic for hidden treasure, that sort of thing. It’s not all intuitive. Some things need to be taught. On Sunday, a buddy came over with his laptop and asked if I’d ever heard of Fortnite’s “Stairway…