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

PUBG: Record profits in 2017, Savage map, PC patch, and the doom of mobile

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PUBG may be giving up ground to Fortnite, but it made Bluehole a crapton of money last year. MMO Culture reports that the company...

SuperData’s February 2018 revenue summary shows Fortnite’s dominance

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Fortnite isn't just a hit for Epic: It's a hit for the whole industry. That's according to SuperData's latest report, which ranks PC, console,...
Weren't we in this game at one point?

Fortnite passes $5M in mobile sales while adults grapple with its popularity

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Like it or not, the Fortnite wave has yet to crest in our culture. The multiplayer shooter just passed $5 million in mobile sales...

GDC 2018: Making sense of battle royale MMO Mavericks with Automaton Games

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So as you may know, I'm an MMORPG guy - not really a battle royale guy. There are some cool ideas for people who like...

Analysts predict that major publishers will pivot to counter (and catch up with) Fortnite

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Epic's not even remotely a nobody in gaming, but it's still a surprise to find out that its runaway battle royale hit Fortnite actually...

PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds resists region-locking, copies Fortnite’s events

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Some calls from players urging the PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds studio to region-lock Chinese players into their own segregated area are being resisted by the game's...
Theoretically there's a non-jerk version of this out there, but...

MMO studios form Justice League-style alliance to combat toxicity

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After years of trying to crack the serious issue of negative behavior and toxicity among their individual communities, 30 game studios and industry leaders are...
This one's for you, guy.

Fortnite talks game modifications while players design forts and resell skins, all while crushing PUBG

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There's a lot of stuff swirling around the Fortnite community of late, starting with adjustments to the game's Blitz mode to reduce how many...
LOUD NOISES!

Fortnite dominates iOS mobile charts, PUBG soft launches in North America, and somebody stabs somebody else over PUBG

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Fortnite's mobile version is already kicking butt and taking names, even landlocked to iOS. According to app-tracker SensorTower, the game is ranked #1 for...
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Fortnite: The 3.3 update, Drake on Twitch, battle royale development, and next-gen online games

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After a brief delay, Fortnite's 3.3 patch is in with a bang, literally, thanks to new explosives and supply llamas added to battle royale...

Fortnite: Hack compensation, the FortCraft clone, and mobile event registration

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Were you one of the long list of folks hacked in Fortnite? Epic Games told Kotaku that it's aware of the mass-hacking going on,...

Fortnite mobile will see Xbox One cross-play, but not Xbox to PS4 cross-play

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Last week, when Epic Games announced it was porting Fortnite to mobile, there was one console conspicuously left out of the list for cross-play...

Fortnite is launching its battle royale on Android and iOS, will be mostly crossplatform

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Have you been wondering which of the big battle royale titles would make a bid for mobile? Probably the first one that came to...
IN THE MIDDLE OF OUR STREET

Massively Overthinking: Is battle royale a fad?

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This week in Massively Overthinking, I want to talk about something out on the fringes of our genre: battle royale games. We've been watching...
I HAVE COME AFLAME

H1Z1 is finally going free-to-play

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Remember way back in the long, long ago, before H1Z1 hit early access, split, reconstituted, renamed, didn't launch, aborted a console port, and all...

Fortnite ups the ante with ‘teams of 20’ mode

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Ladies and germs, we are now in the final days of this seemingly unstoppable arms race between battle royale titles. Please spend some extra...

Perfect Ten: A dozen MOBAs that didn’t make it

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With the insane success -- both in terms of popularity and finances -- that Dota and League of Legends spawned, you can easily understand...
Everyone shoots everyone else!

Fortnite is now more popular on Twitch than PUBG

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Who saw this one coming? Fortnite has officially pushed past PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds in terms of games that get the most playtime on Twitch. That's...
I'm not really interested.

Fortnite patches in a new point of interest and more quests

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The latest patch for Fortnite is out, and it has some new weaponry for you in both its Battle Royale and Save The World...

SuperData says ‘pay-to-play’ MMOs declined again in January 2018

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SuperData published its January recap of the worldwide digital games market this week, and the analytics firm doesn't have much good to say for...

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