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

A prison of your own making.

Fortnite players download a hack and wind up hacked themselves

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It turns out that when you download third-party hacks designed to help you cheat in a game, the people you are downloading them from...

Fortnite has finally gotten a functional Playground LTM online

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Fortnite's latest patch is here, and its chief addition is new weapons: a new pistol, new stink bombs, and even a Tommy gun. New...
Yes, it was this bad. It was always this bad.

Online games are avenues for hate group recruitment, according to former white supremacist leader

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Playing a game of linking awful online activities to white supremacist movements is like the worst possible variant of the old Six Degrees of...
Everyone is very mature.

Todd Howard blames Fallout 76’s lack of cross-platform play on Sony

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The reason you won't be able to play Fallout 76 with your friends on consoles is because of Sony, according to Bethesda studio director...
And I think it's gonna be a long long time

Fortnite’s rocket launch led to players being… nice to each other

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You might think that gathering a bunch of Fortnite players in one spot to watch a rocket launch would lead to a whole lot...

H1Z1 roars past 10 million users on PlayStation 4

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After it looked like H1Z1 was being rendered obsolete by last year's rise of PUBG and Fortnite, having lost 90% of its playerbase by...

Under pressure, Sony claims it’s looking into solving its crossplay dilemma

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Under great amounts of pressure to reverse its anti-crossplay stance with the PlayStation 4, Sony has finally capitulated somewhat by saying that it is...

PUBG Corp drops plagiarism lawsuit against Epic Games as Fortnite’s Playground goes live

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It looks like the big legal feud between PUBG and Fortnite is already drawing to a close, as Bloomberg reports PUBG Corp. has withdrawn...

Fortnite: Pollsters and academics examine purchases, pay-to-win, and motivation vs. addiction

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Remember the old adage that less than 10% of a free-to-play playerbase pay for the other 90%? A poll conducted by LendEDU and Pollfish...

SuperData’s May 2018 revenue report shows Fortnite slowing down, Pokemon Go picking up for summer

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May 2018 was good to Fortnite, again, SuperData's latest global revenue report shows, but its growth rate may be coming to a middle. "Fortnite...

Fortnite teases The Playground mode as Epic sues a contractor over supposed leaks

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It looks as if Fortnite will launch the Playground this week, at least if the weekend update message is any guide; it's touting a...

Worlds Adrift postpones this week’s patch, The Guardian compares it to Fortnite

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Don't expect a patch this week in Worlds Adrift: Bossa's delayed it to July 3rd. In its latest dev blog, the studio says it's...

E3 2018: Hands-on with Mavericks, the MMO battle royale hybrid

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Automaton Games CEO James Thompson came along with Improbable, Bill Roper, and Mavericks to this year's E3, where I got a second chance to...
ride eternal shiny and chrome

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds has lost nearly half of its players since January as Sanhok map goes live

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Alas, poor PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds, we've entered the second phase of your musician biopic when the fans start leaving. Sure, the game was riding high...

Massively Overthinking: Massively OP’s E3 2018 awards

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We've finished rolling out all of our E3 2018 content this year, save a few last stragglers coming this weekend, so now we've chosen...

Massively OP Podcast Episode 175: Virtual heartbreakers

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Justin and Bree discuss E3, WoW Classic, Crowfall's delay, Defiance 2050's release date, Fortnite's Sony mess, Black Desert's dating mechanics, and EVE and Star Citizen's ship squabble, with mailbag questions on midgame MMO play and why MMO studios won't shup up and take our money.
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Smed weighs in on Sony’s historical PlayStation crossplay hangups

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Sony's managed to piss off a whole lotta gamers over its unwillingness to play ball on Fortnite. As we covered last week, the PlayStation...

Whoopsie swastikas, stink bombs, and Twitch records: Just another day in the life of Fortnite

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Add "accidentally creating Nazi symbols" to things you probably don't want your popular video game to do. Fortnite players recently discovered that one floor tileset,...
Everyone shoots everyone else!

E3 2018: Sony blocks Fortnite crossplay with rival consoles, waffles on a response

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This week's showing at E3 should have been a victory lap for one of gaming's hottest titles, but Sony seems bound and determined to...
Weren't we in this game at one point?

Fortnite on Nintendo Switch doesn’t include Save the World

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You remember Save the World, right? The mode of Fortnite wherein you build a base and defend against zombies? The one that was supposed...

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