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’s map update spawns a new city and biomes today

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It may not be exactly all-new, but Fortnite's battle royale map is definitely improved thanks to today's loudly trumpeted update. Patch V.2.2.0 expands and enhances the...
Boring plus boring equals still boring. Today in boring math.

Paragon is slowing down because the game just isn’t growing

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It's a good thing that Paragon fans have gotten a detailed and straightforward update on the state of the game and its development future...

The Survivalist: Another year, another Survival Game guide

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A new year, a new batch of survival games! Yes, the genre has become so popular that one guide, no not even two guides...
This one's for you, guy.

Fortnite racks up 40 million downloads, boasts about its success

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Forty million downloads. That's the staggering number that Epic Games is tossing around concerning its incredibly successful Fortnite after a busy holiday season. That's...

Tencent helps Chinese law enforcement arrest 120 people linked to PUBG cheats

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If you thought Epic Games was being too rough on cheaters in Fortnite by smacking kids with personal lawsuits, wait until you hear what...

Fortnite addresses Meltdown vulnerability, settles another cheater lawsuit

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Were you thinking you'd escaped all impact from the Meltdown vulnerability afflicting Intel systems? Fortnite players should think again, even consolers, as Epic Games...

Hi-Rez Expo 2018: Hands-on with Paladins Battlegrounds, the game’s new battle royale mode

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Paladins got not one but four announcements at this year's Hi-Rez Expo. There's a brand-new team death match mode coming as well as new...
LOUD NOISES!

Fortnite adds silencers in its first Battle Royale update of 2018

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The first Fortnite update of the new year has arrived for the Battle Royale mode, and it introduces the silenced pistol along with a...

The MOP Up: Multiverse makes a comeback (December 31, 2017)

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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...

Perfect Ten: 20 multiplayer games to watch in 2018

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A couple of weeks ago I covered 20(ish) MMORPGs that we are looking forward to seeing develop, test, and launch in 2018. But as...

The Stream Team: Surviving Fortnite’s holidays

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How do you like your holidays? Filled with destruction, assembly, and fights? Well, this may or may not resemble some family get-togethers this time...

Massively OP’s Best of 2017 Awards: Best Not-So-Massively Game of 2017

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Massively Overpowered's end-of-the-year 2017 awards continue today with our award for Best Not-So-Massively Game, which was awarded to Overwatch last year. As you might surmise, the...

Fortnite kicks off Battle Royale Season 2

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Christmas or a new season of battle royale? With Fortnite, both are feasible, desirable, and doable. The nominally zombie-themed survival builder kicked off Battle Royale...
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED

The developer of PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds laments the lack of video game IP protection

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Did you know that there's no real IP protection for video games? We didn't know that either; we seem to recall a lot of...

Overwatch snags two Game Awards while Destiny 2 is honored by six nominations

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Did you catch last night's Game Awards from LA? If not, you probably didn't miss anything super-groundbreaking, although Overwatch did quite well for itself...
Everyone shoots everyone else!

Fortnite is getting a new large-scale battle royale mode

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Over the past weekend, Fortnite managed to hit a peak of 1.3 million concurrent users and 30M total users. That's a lot of people....
A win, sort of.

Fortnite settles one of its anti-cheater lawsuits out of court

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If you'd forgotten, Fortnite wound up bringing a lawsuit against two people for cheating software being used in the game. One such suit hit...

Massively Overthinking: Taking risks in MMORPGs

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Last weekend, Brendan wrote a great column on how to stay safe from gankers in EVE Online, noting that the newbies are commonly given...

Fortnite’s latest patch adds Xbox One X support, preps custom matchmaking

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This week's Fortnite update spreads love around for both the freebie battle royale mode and the paid PvE mode and now supports Xbox One...

Superdata’s October 2017 revenue report: Destiny 2’s and PUBG’s dominance

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Destiny 2 may be fudging up left and right, but it still sold a truckton of copies. That's according to Superdata, whose most recent revenue...

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