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

MMO Business Roundup: FIFA lockboxes, anti-swatting policy, Fortnite on SNL, Free Guy, UO postmortem

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Whenever our newsroom gets overloaded with weird industry-related articles that nobody feels like writing, another edition of the MMO Business Roundup gets its wings! FIFA...
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Fortnite claims yesterday’s boob physics patch was ‘unintended’

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You might be wondering why, on a day like yesterday of all days, Epic Games would patch in lady boob jiggle as a tacky...

Fortnite rolls out its sixth season of battle royale mayhem, this time with pets

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Battle royale needs pets, said no one ever, but Fortnite's next big thing has landed with the cuddly critters in tow anyway, presumably to...
Someone won.

Fortnite is the first test subject as Sony begins working on cross-platform play

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Get out your jazz hands and your "it's happening" t-shirts because yes, Sony is working on cross-platform play across the board. (We'll just ignore...
Dead in the water.

World of Warcraft made more money than League of Legends last month, SuperData reports

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"League of Legends heads towards its worst performing year since 2014." So begins SuperData's August 2018 global revenue report today for the entire video...
Sure, great, whatever.

Fortnite counts almost 80M players per month as the Fall Skirmish boots up

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Still snubbing Fortnite as a kids game? You're not alone, but you're definitely in the minority. It turns out that Epic Games has roped...

Fortnite player arrested for threatening to kill an 11-year-old opponent

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This week in why we can't have nice things, a grown man apparently threatened to kill a little kid who beat him in Fortnite. Yesterday,...

Fortnite patches in port-a-fortresses and spiky stadiums

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Fortnite's latest patch is out today with a brand-new playground perk for the battle royale king, dubbed Spiky Stadium. This is inarguably a terrible...

UK divorce firm says Fortnite and other online games contributed to 5% of this year’s divorces

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Are people getting divorced over Fortnite? Or does a UK divorce website deserve a medal for SEO trick of the year? Why not both? A...
Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep

Fortnite on Android has lots of fake versions with malware, spyware, and so forth

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Hey, remember when concerns were raised about Fortnite on Android not having any built-in security by avoiding the Google Play store? After all, it'd...

The MOP Up: Champions Online’s month-long anniversary bash (September 9, 2018)

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The MMO industry moves along at the speed of information, and sometimes we’re deluged with so much news here at Massively Overpowered that some...

PAX West 2018: Every mobile game should play like Elder Scrolls Blades

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I don't usually report on mobile games, but I do play quite a few of them. Star Wars: Galaxy of Heroes, Mario Run, and...
This Reservoir Dogs reboot looks bad.

Fortnite adds in new limited-time Getaway gameplay mode for the High Stakes event

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Ready to turn your sessions of Fortnite into a heist film? The latest patch kicks off the High Stakes event, and that includes the...

The Cycle plans September closed alpha, offers new gameplay trailer

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We've been following YAGER's upcoming online shooter The Cycle all summer; as we put it in July, it looks like a survival sandbox with...

Sony explains its crossplatform hangups, Fortnite decides tourney qualifier field by coinflip

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Everybody's got an opinion on why Sony won't play nicely with the other platforms, like the Switch, in regard to Fortnite, but how about...

Fortnite’s Android version shipped with huge security hole, but it’s OK now

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Here's some really scary news if you were among the millions who installed Fortnite on an Android device from the game's website. Apparently the...
YOUR MONEY IS NOW OUR MONEY, AND WE WILL USE IT TO BUY DRUGS

Fortnite adds new Score Royale limited-time mode and magic snowglobes

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The next time you're tempted to blurt out that a game is over because of its cartoony graphics, just don't. Because Fortnite exists to...

SuperData July 2018: Fortnite is peaking, League of Legends is bested, Overwatch is slipping

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"Fortnite’s peak may be behind us," SuperData asserts in its report on July 2018's global video game revenues. "Fortnite revenue is up only 2%...

Fortnite expands Android testing, wants to match players up depending on their control scheme

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Good news for Android players who felt left out of the initial batch of Fortnite beta invites: Epic Games announced that the test has...

The Daily Grind: Do you have an MMO backlog, and if so, what’s on it?

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If you follow the mainstream gaming media meta at all, you've probably noticed that a lot of sites, spurred on by Polygon, have been mulling...

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