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Fortnite‘s Battle Royale Is A Delight (And A Whole Lot Like Battlegrounds)

The prospect of besting 99 other gamers through sheer resourcefulness and daredevilry is why the battle royale genre has become so compelling to millions of gamers. Survival shooter Battlegrounds now has the second all-time highest concurrent player count on Steam, and today, Fortnite, a multiplayer game about building forts and defending against zombie swarms, just…

Battlegrounds Developer Attacks Fortnite For ‘Replicating’ Game

Earlier this month, developer Epic Games announced a Battle Royale mode for its game Fortnite, and as it turns out, the makers of that other Battle Royale game aren’t too thrilled. In a press release this morning, PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds developer Bluehole took a shot at Epic Games, calling out Fortnite for cloning the 100-man PVP…

Epic Accidentally Allows Xbox And PS4 Cross-Play In Fortnite, Disables It [UPDATE]

Oops, it looks like for a brief few hours PS4 and Xbox One cross-play was available in Fortnite. Now, Fortnite developer Epic Games says that feature was actually a bug, which the studio is referring to as a “configuration issue” that it says it has fixed. Console cross-play opens up games’ player bases so friends…

Battlegrounds won’t be out on PS4 for a while, but while you wait, you can check out Fortnite’s 100-person Battle Royale mode, which launches September 26 (for PS4 as well as Xbox One, PC, and Mac). Last player standing wins. Of course.

Fortnite’s first update will add a new mode, “Survive the Storm,” plus some new weapons and loot to the survival/fort-defense game for a limited time. It will be available on August 29th.

Fortnite‘s Complicated Progression System Obscures A Great Game

Epic Games’ Fortnite, out in Early Access, is not one game, but many, all tangled together under one name. It’s a resource management game. It’s a multiplayer third-person shooter. It’s a tower defense game. It’s a collectable card game. It’s a strategy game, a survival game and it’s even a little bit of a role-playing…

Fortnite Developers Apologize For Surprise Change That Wiped Out Several Players’ Bases

Developer Epic Games issued anapology this morning after several fans of Fortnite, a surprisingly cute player vs. environment game about surviving the apocalypse, were caught off guard when their labored-after bases disappeared. The unannounced change was a part of an early morningpatch for the Early Access game. Players say they spentseveral dozen hoursconstructing bases on…

Fortnite Enters Early Access, Six Years After Getting Announced

Fortnite, a building survival game developed by the folks at Epic Games, will enter Early Access on July 25, the publisher said today. It was announced on December 10, 2011, so it only makes sense that it’d enter Early Access now. The game will be out for Xbox One, PS4, PC, and Mac. Here’s a…

Fortnite Is Not What You’d Expect from the Makers of Gears of War

Fortnite doesn’t feel like the kind of experience that should be coming from Epic Games. This is the House That Shooters Built after all, with huge slabs of foundation laid down by Unreal Tournament and Gears of War. But, despite being a game that takes heavy cues from Minecraft, Fortnite represents an evolution for the…

Watch Things Get Built And Destroyed In Fortnite

Despite putting the game out in the open way back in 2011, Epic has remained relatively quiet about its cartoonish shooter Fortnite ever since. Now it’s finally starting to put the game back in the spotlight by releasing promising footage like this new gameplay trailer. The short clip shows off some of the game’s fast-paced…

Epic Says They’re Still Making Video Games

With the sale this morning of its iconic Gears of War franchise, Epic Games felt compelled to say it still is in the business of making video games, not just the technology that drives them. “For people saying Epic isn’t making games anymore, we currently have multiple games in development, including [Fortnite],” Wes Phillips, an…

Why The Gears of War People Decided to Make Fortnite Less Dark

There are things that go bump in the night in Epic Games’ next title. Fortnite is like many games put into one, but at its crux it’s a survival, building game. So when the monsters start coming out, you’ve hopefully constructed some safe ground to defend against them. But when the team was first sketching…

Epic’s New PC Game Is Their Most Exciting In Years

Epic Games’ latest title, Fortnite, is a shooter in which players wait until nightfall for their fortress to be attacked, or venture outside of the safety of its walls to take the battle to hordes of colorfully creepy creatures. Fortnite is a defense game, in which players carefully bolster their home base against the oncoming…

Epic’s Fortnite Will Be The First Unreal Engine 4 Game [UPDATE 2]

Epic Games’ Fortnite will be the first game from the Gears of War studio made on the company’s Unreal Engine 4. So said Epic people at the Fortnite panel at San Diego Comic-Con. The game is PC-exclusive. The Unreal Engine 4 is Epic’s new graphics engine, targeted to next-gen consoles and PCs, though the engine…

Gears of War Creators Are Giving the ‘Dudebro’ Thing a Rest With Fortnite

Epic Games makes macho games that feature manly men. Gears of War, for example. But they’re also making Fortnite, a game their lead game designer, Cliff Bleszinski, tells G4 should help the studio’s shed the developer’s “dudebro” image just a bit. But what’s it like? “Lots of games say they’re about survival but they’re more…

A Night-and-Day Comparison Best Describes Fortnight

Fortnite, revealed last nite (rimshot) at the Spike Video Game Awards, is one of those games whose elements seem to be either derivative or easily recognizable, yet an easy description remains tip-of-the-tongue elusive. It’s a got resource gathering, but it’s not really Minecraft; cartoony characters, but you can’t say it’s Team Fortress; zombies and headshots,…

Epic Games Reveals Cartoony New IP Fortnite

They teased it earlier this week and tonight on the VGAs, the makers of Gears of War 3 revealed their newest game. Called Fortnite, it appears to expand on the fortification/tower defense mechanics introduced in Gears of War 3 with an all-new art style that leaves the gritty, steroidal look of previous Epic games behind.…