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We gotta hand it to Epic Games, as they have become masters of stirring the pot about Fortnite without lifting a finger some days Take, for example, their latest tweet, which already sent a ton of people into a frenzy over what was essentially nothing As you can see below, the company teased the big[...]

A couple days ago we talked about how people found a giant Fortnite hamburger in the middle of the desert, but today someone found a llama! Whatever the endgame is for Epic Games will be revealed in a couple days when they show off what the theme behind Season 5 is and what the giant[...]

credit//Epic Games Rifts are the newest anomaly to hit the Fortnite: Battle Royale map after a rocket launched in game on July 2nd The rifts appear as cracks in the sky and have mostly just been decoration in the background of the free-for-all PvP Now, however, it appears as if those rifts are spawning item drops[...]

With all the speculation of what the giant crack in Fortnite's sky could mean, Epic Games is set to give us an answer within a matter of days The game's developers went onto their subreddit today and made the official announcement below, letting players know that Season 5 will kick off on July 12th. We're actually[...]

Well, if you were curious as to where they were planning to take season 5 for Fortnite, the people over at Epic Games may have tipped their hat a bit. There are a few conversations currently happening on Reddit, where people have been finding objects from the game out in the wild, like how Sela Shiloni found[...]

Then the skin went away and, like a lot of players, we just assumed it was retired forever and would be sitting in the fabled "vault" that Epic Games has where they put objects away that supposedly never see the light of day again Well… that's not the case this time The company announced to[...]

Epic Games has made Fortnite's 4.5 update live and brought in some new toys to play with. Aside from some patriotic costumes to match the 4th of July today, they threw in the Freedom Herald Pistol and a Stink Bomb for Save The World mode They also dropped the gun you've been waiting to try out, the[...]

Less than 24 hours after telling players they were working to fix some issues with it, Epic Games announced on Reddit that Fortnite now has Playground LTM The company plans to go over what exactly went wrong and share it with the public down the road, but in the meantime, we have a brand-new mode to[...]

After getting delayed and having nothing buy questions from their community, Epic Games took to Reddit to update fans on Fortnite's Playground LTM The short version: the team has some very specific goals they need to meet and reach before they're comfortable putting out for the public to play with. We can't blame them, there have been[...]

Epic Games has started posting some new stuff coming on their feed, and the latest item to appear is a brand-new Drum Gun. The image below was loaded up on Reddit and caught the attention of several players, as this looks more like a traditionally controlled machine gun than the actual machine gun that's in the[...]

But now, there's a new record holder who scored a kill record so high that it may not be beaten for a long time to come. credit//Epic Games A player by the name of Elemental_Ray became the ultimate opportunist during the event and decided to ruin everyone's fun with a few key points of destruction[...]

Part of the rocket fell off while the rest continued forward, followed by a cosmic event where the final piece of the rocket hit the top of the map and put one of the biggest cracks in the sky we've seen since that Futurama movie-turned-four-part-episode 'The Beast with a Billion Backs'. credit//Epic Games There were a few more[...]

We have the general additions below as well, or you can read the full list here. credit//Epic Games Celebrate summer with the Fireworks Launcher, which has been added as a seasonal item that has firework explosions and replaces the Grenade Launcher for a limited time (cosmetic change only). Blocks that are removed while in edit mode are now[...]

Well, that's not exactly how we thought the situation would end, but it appears PUBG Corp's fight with Epic Games has come to an end The studio behind PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds has officially ended its lawsuit against the makers of Fortnite in what was probably going to be a hotly contested copyright claim. According to Bloomberg, a letter[...]

The rewards have been updated to include "gold, event tickets, and perk materials and the amount awarded has been increased since the last event." The devs didn't put a date on any of these additions, but we'd say expect it sometime in July. credit//Epic Games We are happy to announce that the Canny Valley campaign, as well as[...]

Polygon posted an update to what may be an interesting lawsuit to follow as the company is taking a quality assurance contractor named Thomas Hannah to court, claiming they worked with a third party to spread info about the Season Four event in which a comet hit and destroyed Dusty Depot to create the crater you see[...]

Epic Games has responded swiftly to an image that showed it was possible for an unintentional swastika to show up when building in the game, saying a fix is being worked on immediately. credit//Epic Games Fortnite is the biggest thing the world now There aren't many, if any entertainment properties with as much prevalence at the moment[...]

credit//Epic Games Gaming addiction has been given some major support now that the mental health disorder is being classified by the World Health Organization Notably, the American Psychiatric Association declined to add the disorder to the Fifth edition of the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders (DSM V), though they have put it down as[...]

credit//Epic Games Yes, finally, it is official Epic Games has brought Fortnite to the Nintendo Switch We knew this was coming, thanks to a series of leaks about Fortnite content hitting the Nintendo Treehouse schedule and the game's logo and update file being found by data miners, but its always nice for full confirmation[...]

credit//Epic Games More leaks of the Fortnite Switch port have been unearthed, this time featuring a game update file and logo found on the Switch eShop by data miners. Twitter user SciresM uncovered some Fortnite details on the eShop, despite the fact that Fortnite hasn't officially been announced for the Switch[...]

After being teased last week and almost assuredly being added to the game in no-time float after the word got out, Epic Games just added the new 4.3 update to Fortnite that officially brings back the Bouncer Trap to the game The update isn't all about the trap, but it is the highlight after dataminers found[...]

Sony's former CEO of PlayStation, Jack Tretton, has teamed up with Epic Games to provide a number of pc-first indie games under Tretton's game investment fund Interactive Gaming Ventures will support the development of interesting indie games made with Epic's Unreal Engine 4. The news is ideal for UE4 devs who want to fund their games[...]

Epic Games will probably be checking over its security for the game after today as another item has been discovered ahead of time in Fortnite due to datamining This time around it appears an old item will be making its way back into the game in the form of the Bounce Pad The item was[...]

credit//Epic Games A leaked E3 document found by Kotaku (it was originally posted to 4chan) indicates that Fortnite is indeed coming to the Nintendo Switch Fans have wanted Fortnite to come to the Switch, basically since the game's release And while Epic Games have been pretty open to the possibility of a Switch port, nothing official has ever been[...]

credit//Epic Games Fortnite has changed a lot of things about the landscape of video games in general, but one of the less-reported side-effects of the ridiculous amounts of popularity for Fortnite: Battle Royale is the tendency for hardcore players to forget that building is not a thing in other games Yes, players are now starting to report[...]

Okay so the shopping carts aren't really here to replace the JetPacks, at least not entirely. Instead, the Fortnite shopping cart has arrived as the game's first vehicle. Because as any kid knows, shopping carts make the best cars.

After pursuing legal action last year after noticing the similarities between their games, PUBG Corp has pressed forward and filed suit against Epic Games for copyright infringement, according to a report by the Korea Times (via PC Gamer) The injunction filed by PUBG Corp in the South Korean court system alleges that Fortnite was modeled after PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds. The[...]

If you're one of the many people playing Fortnite and you're saying to yourself "Gee, I wish I had more V-Bucks to buy all the cosmetic gear that does me no good in the game," Epic Games would like to warn you about trying to find the easy way to a payday The developers made[...]

Much in the same vein of how there's a market for Chinese and South Korean players that will play your games for you for hours to help get your score up, only with the caveat of being at your side instead of in control. credit//Epic Games While it sounds like a fine idea for someone who needs help[...]

Epic Games has pulled the mode about an hour after it launched The developers released this message below on Twitter, announcing that it has been disabled and that a new mode was added in its place in the meantime. Due to an issue with Close Encounters, we've had to disable this LTM while we investigate[...]