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

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Fight or Kite: Fallout 76’s Nuclear Winter is a blast

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Stop me if you’ve heard this one before: A multiplayer online game is looking for the new hot thing to drum up interest in...

Former Epic producer reveals that Fortnite almost got canned over Save the World

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Fortnite Battle Royale has been a runaway success for Epic Games, cementing the popularity of the battle royale genre in mainstream gaming culture and...

Take-Two boss shrugs off Fortnite’s impact on the gaming industry

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Thank goodness it's a sunny day out there because Strauss Zelnick brought some serious shade for the industry to Baird's 2019 Global Consume, Technology,...

Cheaters who were banned from a $30M Fortnite tournament win their way back in

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How does one who was banned for cheating in a Fortnite esports event make their way back into that same tournament? By having a...

Fight or Kite: First impressions of Nexon’s new multiplayer shooter Rocket Arena

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Nexon's new crossplatform multiplayer shooter Rocket Arena came out of nowhere last month and surprised everyone with a closed beta this past week. It's...

Massively Overthinking: Tackling the ‘big four MMOs’ meme

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Over the last couple of months, there's been a meme floating around the MMORPG subreddit. Someone will ask that the community recommend a game,...

Overwatch League commissioner jumps ship for Fortnite esports

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There's probably not a lot of lines to read in-between here, but then again, the commissioner and founder of Overwatch's premier esports league leaving...
Guns and funs.

Fortnite details recent changes to its matchmaking systems

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Shortly following Fortnite's v9.10 update, the folks at Epic Games made some major changes to the game's Arena matchmaking logic, which they've been continuing...

The Survivalist: What ever happened to the smaller survival sandbox MMOs? Part two

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Last week we learned what was up with a number of the smaller survival sandbox MMOs. Sadly, some have faded away, but others are...

Fortnite and Nike’s Jumpman brand team up for a new LTM

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I never would have thought to stir Fortnite and a brand of footwear together, but then again I also never would have thought to...

SuperData April 2019: WoW and Apex Legends depart the revenue rankings, Hearthstone re-enters

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Oh hey there Superdata, is it time for another run-down of who's screwing up in the games industry this month and who's making money...

Fight or Kite: Features MMOs could borrow from successful esports titles

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This week I wanted to try something a little different in our PvP-centric Fite or Kite column and take a look at a number...

Assassins killed Fortnite’s puppy so it created a John Wick-themed event

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Anything goes with the Fortnite narrative at this point, so why shouldn't John Wick show up? His house has been on the island for...

The Daily Grind: Are we watching the AAA video game market burst?

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About four years ago, I wrote one of the pieces I'm still most proud of: It essentially argued that the MMO industry was suffering...
Celebration of whatever.

Fortnite launches season 9 and location revamps, plus tweaks to Creative and Save the World modes

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Fortnite's next big thing has arrived along with the 9.00 patch. "The volcano has erupted and forever changed some long lasting locations - from...
hnn... colonel

EA sees quarterly and yearly revenue dropoffs, plans to port Apex Legends to mobile

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Activision-Blizzard wasn't the only company to see a weak start to 2019: EA also saw a drop off in revenue for Q1 2019, with...

The MOP Up: Multiplayer co-op survival game Eden Rising launches this month

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What do you get when you mix No Man's Sky with a dash of Fortnite and Rend? Eden Rising, by our judge. The game...

Fortnite disqualifies pro player from $30M tourney over collusion scandal

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Ya know, there three really good ways to ensure you're never going to win the $30M Fortnite World Cup. One is to not play....

Not So Massively: Yearning for an MMO future free of loot

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Throughout all of the Drama over Anthem's loot issues, I've just been rolling my eyes. Not because I think Bioware screwed up -- arguably...

Apex Legends devs discuss season 2, content cadence, and avoiding development crunch

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Although the frankly obscene amount of hype that surrounded Apex Legends in the weeks following its launch earlier this year has subsided to more...

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