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

THIS IS YOUR NEW GOD, CHILDREN

Fortnite might not be back on Apple’s app store for five years – or longer

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You know how kids' soccer teams line up after a match to give each other high-fives and "good games" in a show of sportsmanship?...

Fortnite brings back the mysterious cubes and adds a Carnage skin in Chapter 2 Season 8

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The attack against the mothership is over, Dr. Sloane has revealed her ultimate plan to double-cross players, and now there are cubes all over...
YOUR MONEY IS NOW OUR MONEY, AND WE WILL USE IT TO BUY DRUGS

The Epic v. Apple ruling permanently stops Apple from blockading third-party purchasing

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Happy Friday, and happy one more entry in the longrunning Epic-Apple feud, as today, the judge in the Epic v. Apple lawsuit, Yvonne Gonzalez-Rogers,...

Massively Overthinking: Overcoming barriers-to-exit in MMOs

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About a thousand years ago, I wrote an article on Old Massively called "but I already have that game" about barriers-to-exit: the difficulty of...

Fortnite’s Operation: Sky Fire plans to close out Season 2 Chapter 7 with an assault on an alien ship September 12

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Fortnite players, mark the calendar date of Sunday, September 12th, as that will be the end of the game's current Season 2 Chapter 7,...
No screenshots yet, obviously.

Playable Worlds’ Raph Koster has all but said he’s building a metaverse

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If you've been listening to companies like Epic Games yammer about the "metaverse" over the last year and wondered whether it's all just a...

Fortnite had to disable nearly every emote in the Martin Luther King event area

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Perhaps Epic Games assumed the weight and importance of its special area dedicated to Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. would inspire Fortnite players to...

The MOP Up: Genshin Impact puts on a global concert

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There's no doubt among fans that Genshin Impact has an amazing soundtrack, so there should be a whole lot of people happy to hear...

Fortnite hosts in-game Martin Luther King Jr. exhibit, doubles down on Impostors Trials

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This might be one of the weirder but more important online gaming promotions we've seen all year: Fortnite is collaborating with TIME Studios for...

Among Us developer Innersloth raises eyebrows at Fortnite’s Impostors mode and its striking similarities

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While we cast our own shade in the direction of Fortnite and the recently introduced Impostors mode, with its barely veiled copycatting of Among...

Fortnite brings back Wild Weeks mods, adds new ‘Impostors’ mode that looks… familiar

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Are you ready to get wild in Fortnite? Then you're ready for the return of Wild Weeks, which are making a comeback starting with...
APAB

Opinion: Free Guy is a great watch – particularly for MMO fans

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I don't wind up writing a whole lot of movie reviews. This isn't because I don't watch a lot of movies or don't think...
why does this continue

Unsealed court documents outline Google’s consideration to buy ‘some or all’ of Epic

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Most of the headlines regarding the Epic vs. Apple vs. Google antitrust lawsuits have been focused on the spat between Epic and Apple owing...

Ariana Grande performs in Fortnite this weekend as part of her Rift Tour

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We're betting that social media has already blasted the fact that Grammy-winner Ariana Grande is rocking the Fortnite scene this weekend as she performs...

The Game Archaeologist: Defining the eras of MMORPG history

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With MMO history stretching back to the early 1980s (and even before), this genre has accumulated a whole lot of history over the years....

Massively Overthinking: Are there any ‘blue oceans’ left in the MMO market?

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Level Up Labs' Lars Doucet recently penned a blog post practically begging people not to try to compete with ROBLOX by remaking it as...

Fortnite’s Rift Tour promises a ‘musical journey into magical new realities’

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It would appear that Fortnite is ramping up for another in-game concert event. This past Thursday saw the game put out an announcement about...

Fortnite declares ‘Rainbow Royale’ this week with free LGBTQ cosmetics and music from LGBTQ artists

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While June was officially Pride month, Fortnite seems keen to keep LGBTQIA+ representation front-and-center in the game this week with the announcement of what...
Mean elf.

Vague Patch Notes: Hating an MMO isn’t the same as having a personality

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There was a friend I had at one point who had a particularly annoying habit. Whenever I would bring up something obnoxious that was...
Eat it, eat it, put it in your mouth and eat it.

Massively Overthinking: The curious cycle of MMO refunds, tutorials, and reviews

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MOP reader Steve recently posed us an intriguing question about the state of tutorials in MMOs and other games - and how those tutorials'...

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