fortnite

Official Site: Fortnite
Studio: Epic Games
Launch Date: July 25, 2017
Genre: Battle royale survival shooter
Business Model: F2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC, mobile, console

Massively Overthinking: Are MMO developers stuck in the past?

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Earlier this month - so what feels like at least a few years ago - the MMO community amused itself jousting over comments from...

GeForce NOW lets game publishers opt-in, Guild Wars 2 and Albion Online decide to opt-out

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The stumble-stepped release of Nvidia's cloud-based games service GeForce NOW is having another wobbling point. Nvidia has elected to let game developers and publishers...

Flameseeker Chronicles: First impressions of Guild Wars 2’s No Quarter

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After March’s relatively lightweight release, Steel and Fire, a lot of Guild Wars 2 players were expecting something big from this month’s release, entitled...

SuperData April 2020: Games spending shatters more records thanks to the pandemic

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This will probably come off as "water is wet" news, but for those who like to keep a finger on the pulse of these...
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Fortnite follows up the newest Tenet trailer with a full Christopher Nolan film this summer

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It seems relatively obvious based on recent events that Fortnite has very little interest in being a video game at this point. Being a virtual...

Ship of Heroes is enthusiastic about Unreal Engine 5 – but practical implementation is a long way off

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Last week, Epic dropped a bunch of news and a headline-grabbing video showcasing Unreal 5. While a lot of the ensuing discussion centered on...
Here in my car, I feel safest of all.

Epic Games Store (and Fortnite logins) get utterly fouled up by Grand Theft Auto V

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Downloading Grand Theft Auto V for free - should you? The Epic Games Store said it'd be a thing to do. But Epic's servers got too many...
Must we?

Fortnite confirms next-gen ports and cross-progression as Epic demos UE5

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You know it's a new-gen console year when every game in town is making big promises about longevity, and Epic Games' Fortnite reveals today...

MMO Business Roundup: Guerilla Collective, PlayStation Studios, XLGAMES’ new MMO, ChinaJoy, and NCsoft’s baseball team

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Welcome back to another roundup of business stories relating to MMOs - or adjacent to them. Adjacentness! Funcom: The Norwegian MMO company will be participating...

Xbox X developers include Blizzard, Bungie, Pearl Abyss, and Square Enix

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With the console still on track to release sometime during the holiday season later this year, the Xbox Series X is preparing a huge...
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Fortnite clocks 350 million users and throws a huge party

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The Fortnite party bus is rolling down the street -- are you on it? If you are, you're in good company: The battle royale...
No, I don't like it either.

Fortnite adds a non-combat in-game social space known as Party Royale

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Sure, Fortnite is a battle royale shooter, but once in a while it's also been a point for some impressive social gatherings. It's this...

The MOP Up: Twin Saga blossoms into spring

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Spring has blossomed in Twin Saga, with the huge Update 25 bringing a new Senshi quest, the Trade Fjord and Fairy Valley zones, the...

GDC Summer, Dota 2’s The International, and Fortnite’s World Cup suffer fresh setbacks thanks to the pandemic

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More bad news for gaming convention-goers and esports fans: Everything is canceled. OK, not everything, but a lot. And not canceled, but postponed or...

Fortnite’s Travis Scott concert draws in a record 12.3M concurrent and 27.7M total players

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It seems like Fortnite players are more than eager to attend a free in-game concert. Earlier this week we wrote about a performance with...

MMO Business Roundup: Warcraft modding, Valve source code leaks, and Nvidia goes good

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Welcome back to another roundup of MMO (and MMO-adjacent) industry news! Warcraft modding: Polygon has an interesting explainer up on Blizzard's recent changes to its...

SuperData March 2020: Digital games spending sets achieves new highs thanks to COVID-19

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Back in in March, when SuperData was discussing February's monthly gaming revenue numbers, the analysis firm noted that COVID-19 hadn't yet had much impact...

Fortnite finally comes to Google Play, plans in-game concert this week

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Who's ready for some of that sweet, sweet cross-media promotion? Because Fortnite has you covered with the announcement of Astronomical, an in-game concert featuring...

Lawful Neutral: Leakers, trade secrets, and lawsuits in the online gaming world

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In recent years, you might have noticed a new type of lawsuit coming out of game companies, as some of the more litigation-happy studios...

COVID-19 Roundup: EVE Online’s huge influx of newbies, live Gamescom is probably toast

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Welcome back to another roundup of how MMOs and the gaming industry are faring and fronting during the COVID-19 pandemic. First up: CCP's Hilmar Pétursson...

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