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Would you like to get an entire education and earn a degree to use later in life all by playing Fortnite? Well, that dream exists, and it's now sitting in Ohio. Ashland University is the first college in the U.S. who will offer a scholarship specifically for playing the game as an esport.

However, today Epic Games posted the tweet below showing off a passport for one of the game's characters with it stamped for April 23rd and the destination is China. The Battle Bus is taking off! Destination, China pic.twitter.com/UTGHx86RRA — Fortnite (@FortniteGame) April 20, 2018 Now, we're pretty confident that if the game was being released in China on April[...]

credit//Epic Games On the surface, both PlayerUnkown's Battlegrounds and Fortnite are rather similar games Both are battle royale multiplayer machines that drop players off on a deserted island in groups of 100 so they can take eachother out in insane free-for-all style There are some key differences – you jump out of a plane in PUBG,[...]

Prepare yourself for the absolute insanity of a massive team fighting against another massive team, as Epic Games have brought back the popular 50 vs 50 mode back to Fortnite for a limited time The news came down today along with a trailer to hype the event, which you can watch below Starting today the game[...]

Epic Games isn't giving much away other than the next event will be space themed, so whatever assumptions people may have as to what's really going on my game tossed out the window very shortly as it looks like the island is on the verge of getting changed drastically for a while. After the recent[...]

Fortnite probably isn't going to be expanding its map pool for some time as lead designer Eric Williamson has said that the team is putting its priorities

Epic Games has announced in a new update that Fortnite's controversial guided missile is going to be put away into the vault while the developer decided how to make it a fairer weapon to use. credit//Epic Gamesnite The guided missile has been a much-discussed weapon since it was brought into Fortnite a few weeks ago[...]

Apparently, the entire mess behind the SMG bug in Fortnite has gotten so bad, that Epic Games has decided to address it and will be fixing it in their next patch If you're not familiar with the whole fiasco, ever since the weapon swapping mechanic was introduced into the game, the SMG has found more[...]

Have you ever been int he middle of a Fortnite match and thought to yourself, "You know, I could use an extra 50 people to fight against"? Apparently, that's the thought going through the minds at Epic Games In the latest issue of PlayStation Magazine for May 2018, the publication caught up with EG's design[...]

In what is collectively the biggest, the dumbest, and the funniest news on the planet all in one today, the word is out that Canadian rap darling Drake will actually write a song about the game Fortnite if Epic Games makes an emote from his song 'Hotline Bling'. The word came down after the man himself[...]

Today, Epic Games announced a brand new item that will be coming to Fortnite that will, in a sense, basically change the game for people who are in dire need of protection with the Port-a-Fort The minute the image of the square container started making the rounds earlier today, people were wondering just exactly what[...]

Twitch streamer Summit1g has experienced some backlash from his fanbase after making the decision to stream a few rounds of Fortnite with controversial YouTuber Jake Paul.

You can read the full update notes here along with all the improvements added, but if you just want weapons info we have that details for you below. credit//Epic Games Weapons + Items Vending Machines have been added. These are found in various locations around the map. Each Vending Machine will randomly select a rarity[...]

A shot that should have instantly downed a player if not eliminated them, rendered useless. credit//Epic Games In that same thread, someone at Epic Games responded and said that the development team would be looking into the situation, but that is one hell of a failed damage bug to be looking at Shotguns in any game are[...]

Fortnite is now available on iOS, meaning that you no longer have to be invited to play the game. credit//Epic Games Fortnite has blown up on all fronts, and especially recently, on mobile When it was announced that the mobile version was on the way with crossplay, it wasn't clear how it would work or how complete[...]

credit//Epic Games Fortnite players have been noticing some oddities about the game, from random controller vibrations to a mysterious comet streaking through the sky Players have naturally started mapping out locations where the controller rumbles happen, while others have come up with theories to explain the comet. When Kotaku reached out to a representative for Epic Games about[...]

Fortnite's Community Manager K.L. Smith posted the above photo which shows the new loading screen for Fortnite mobile. Some players may have already noticed the change to the game's loading screen, which warns players not to game in class.

Below are some statistics that Epic Games has released in terms of YouTube viewership when it comes to the game, and it's pretty staggering that in almost eight months time, the game is currently crushing numbers that PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds was doing almost a year ago. credit//Epic Games Fortnite had the most global uploads related to a video[...]

Obviously, Epic Games didn't include any specific details about the weapon, simply the design along with the words "Remote control destruction from above" added to it, as you can see from the picture below Depending on your interpretation of those words, it could mean one of two things: The first being that you will control the[...]

credit//Epic Games Fortnite is a great game, and it being on mobile is fantastic Except that the primary target of mobile games is teenagers Which is great for Epic Games, but not so great for schools It appears tons of schools have become overrun with students playing Fortnite and destroying the school's wifi network overloading it with[...]

credit//Epic Games One of the things Epic Games' boss Tim Sweeney has been wanting to do for the last few months is break down the artificial barrier between PlayStation and Xbox cross-platform multiplayer And at this point, even Xbox's Phil Spencer is on the Fortnite crossplay bandwagon I think pretty much everyone is at this point[...]

A new report claims that Epic Games' Fortnite grossed over $1 million dollars in its first 72 hours on mobile, despite the game only being in beta. credit//Epic Games It's no secret that Fortnite is basically the biggest gaming property in the world right now The free-to-play portion of the game has been taking over the console[...]

credit//Epic Games Brothers Jake and Logan Paul started up a Twitch channel and attempted to get in on the fun of Epic Games' Fortnite As anyone with a brain could have predicted, it did not go well The Paul brothers aren't known as gamers, but contentious YouTube vloggers But the lure of Fortnite is strong — even Drake has gotten in[...]

Epic Games just dropped a bit of a bombshell on Paragon fans as the company revealed they're going to be giving away about $12 million in gaming assets for free The game came to an ungraceful end, resulting in the company refunding players for DLC they pre-ordered Now that Epic doesn't have much to worry[...]

This gives hope to the outpouring of download that the Android version is bound to have, whenever Epic Games decides to tell everyone when that version will be coming out So far, Fortnite's mobile servers seem to be handling the new influx of traffic well, which is also a promising sign that the game is[...]

Epic Games has some major plans heading into E3 2018 revolving around Fortnite, as it looks like the biggest video game convention in the country is about to be turned into a massive celebrity tournament. The company made the announcement this afternoon that they'll be holding the Fortnite Party Royale at E3, with the intent of[...]

After getting a slight delay and probably excited from all the hype from Drake, Epic Games have finally released the 3.3 update to Fortnite today, which includes the Supply Llamas and the Remote Explosives The complete patch notes are below for you to check out, which includes a few bug fixes and gameplay adjustments. credit//Epic Games WEAPONS[...]

Streamer Tyler "Ninja" Blevins and rapper Drake played Fortnite last night and, perhaps unsurprisingly, they obliterated Twitch records. credit//Epic Games Fortnite has really taken over the world I mean that literally too The game is possibly the hottest entertainment property in the world right now, with millions of players playing at any one time[...]

If you've been waiting to try out the new 3.3 update on the way for Fortnite, you'll have to wait just a little bit longer as Epic Games has decided to delay the update The news came down on the game's official Reddit forum today where the developers laid out the news and gave very[...]

Epic Games has put out a trailer for the mobile version of Fortnite, selling how the game will look. I've been fascinated by the news that Fortnite is set to come to phones in a no-compromises port The idea of playing a current console or PC grade level game on a mobile device is the kind[...]