Studio:Â Epic Games
Launch Date: July 25, 2017
Genre:Â Battle royale survival shooter
Business Model:Â F2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC, mobile, console
fortnite
Official Site:Â Fortnite
Studio:Â Epic Games
Launch Date: July 25, 2017
Genre:Â Battle royale survival shooter
Business Model:Â F2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC, mobile, console
Studio:Â Epic Games
Launch Date: July 25, 2017
Genre:Â Battle royale survival shooter
Business Model:Â F2P (Cash Shop)
Platform: PC, mobile, console
Analysts predict that major publishers will pivot to counter (and catch up with) Fortnite
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
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...
MMO studios form Justice League-style alliance to combat toxicity
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...
Fortnite talks game modifications while players design forts and resell skins, all while crushing PUBG
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...
Fortnite dominates iOS mobile charts, PUBG soft launches in North America, and somebody stabs somebody else over PUBG
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...
Fortnite: The 3.3 update, Drake on Twitch, battle royale development, and next-gen online games
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
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
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
Have you been wondering which of the big battle royale titles would make a bid for mobile? Probably the first one that came to...
Massively Overthinking: Is battle royale a fad?
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...
H1Z1 is finally going free-to-play
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
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
With the insane success -- both in terms of popularity and finances -- that Dota and League of Legends spawned, you can easily understand...
Fortnite is now more popular on Twitch than PUBG
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...
Fortnite patches in a new point of interest and more quests
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
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...
The Daily Grind: What was the last MMO you genuinely wanted to shower with money?
Last week, blogger and prolific tipster Kinya sent us a link to Reddit where a Fortnite fan outlines his crush on the game, basically...
Fortnite jumps into Season 3 with hoverboards, 60FPS, and new music
Welcome to the beginning of Fortnite's third season, which kicked off with this week's Patch 3.0. There's a lot going on with this update,...
Pre-teen Fortnite YouTuber gets swatted after achieving a high profile
In one story here we have the best and worst of humanity on display. It all begins with 12-year-old YouTuber Peter Varady, who goes by...
Fortnite speeds up construction
Building is a big part of Fortnite, and Epic Games has revealed some construction improvements geared to speed things up in both Battle Royale...
