Epic Games launched its just-announced digital distribution platform last night during The Game Awards 2018 with a limited selection of games for sale, including Supergiant Games’ new title Hades. Even with its generous revenue split for developers, competing with Steam is going to be an uphill battle for Epic Games. But if there’s one surefire …
Years after being announced and then subsequently put through the ringer with alpha and beta tests, Fortnite made its long-awaited debut in July 2017 as an Early Access title. Initially, there was only one mode — a sandbox campaign called Save the World in which players would fight monsters and complete distinct missions. It wasn’t especially …
Steam isn’t the only digital PC game store, but it has long been the dominant player in the industry. Many developers have attempted to break the Steam stranglehold with their own proprietary offerings — Origin, Uplay, Battle.net — but those stores are typically limited to games from the developers that run them. There simply aren’t …
In celebration of Halloween’s impending arrival, Epic Games is kicking off its second annual Fortnitemares event in Fortnite on Wednesday. In addition to adding new cosmetics to the game, the event also introduces PvE (player vs. environment) content to the Battle Royale mode for the first time, giving players something else to worry about as …
It took a while, but the Fortnite Android Beta is finally available to everyone, regardless of device. The beta launched on Android alongside Samsung’s Galaxy Note 9 in August. For the first few months, only owners of recent Samsung devices were able to download the game, but on Thursday, developer Epic Games announced that anyone …
Fall has begun, and with it comes a new season of Fortnite content, from updated locations and rewards to new items that will change the way the game is played. The lead-up to season 6 wasn’t quite as dramatic as the sky falling in the weeks before season 5, but everyone can finally figure out …
Sony announced on Wednesday that it is finally extending cross-play for Fortnite on PS4 to include Xbox One and Nintendo Switch consoles. Previously, PS4 owners were only able to play Fortnite with Android, iOS, and PC gamers, but after completing a “comprehensive evaluation process,” Sony found a way to support cross-play for “select third-party content.” …
While other stories have taken precedent in the months since E3 2018, the controversy surrounding Sony’s decision to disallow cross-play between Fortnite players on PS4 and those on Xbox One and Switch is still raging online. After all, just two weeks after Switch owners discovered that they weren’t able to log in to their Epic …
During the Galaxy Note 9 launch event earlier this month, Samsung revealed that anyone who played the Fortnite Android beta on a Note 9 or a Galaxy Tab S4 would receive an exclusive in-game skin (the one you see at the top of this post). All you have to do to get the skin is …
In the weeks leading to the Fortnite for Android launch, we learned that Epic Games didn’t want to make the game available the traditional way to save the 30% cut Google would get for all the in-game transactions. At the time, we told you it was wrong for the company to bypass the Google Play …
