With just hours to go until Stranger Things 3 arrives, The Upside Down appears to be leaking out into other realities, as Fortnite players have begun to spot portals from the popular Netflix series inside the game. As of Wednesday morning, orange portals began appearing inside Fortnite’s Mega Mall, which can be found near the …
The video game industry over the last two years came close to looking dramatically different, thanks to an Epic Games ex-director admitting that he actually tried to cancel the super popular Fortnite game before he left the company in 2012. The free-to-play shooter, of course, went on to take the game industry by storm, netting …
At long last, mobile Fortnite players will stand a chance against their console counterparts. On Tuesday, Epic Games shared the patch notes for the Fortnite v7.30 update, which includes support for Bluetooth controllers on Android and iOS devices. This has been a long time coming, as Epic first announced it was working on the feature last year, …
In what is both a fascinating revelation and a vicious shot at one of its main rivals, Netflix said in a shareholder letter on Thursday that, in terms of screen time, Fortnite is a more pressing concern for the company’s business than HBO. While it might not be a one-to-one comparison, we do know that …
In addition to being one of the most successful online multiplayer games of all time, Fortnite also becomes one of the more compelling mysteries in gaming every month or so as developer Epic Games plants the seeds for its next major event. We’ve seen catastrophic storms, mysterious cubes, and now, a massive ice sphere has been …
While many of us will be heading off to New Year’s Eve parties or hosting friends and family at our homes tonight, we have to find some way to entertain ourselves until then. Of course, the most popular pastime of 2018 is Fortnite, and if you’re too impatient to wait for the clock to strike …
Eight years ago, back in the early days of the App Store, Epic Games set the world of mobile gaming on fire with an action RPG called Infinity Blade. As the first iOS game to use the Unreal Engine, it looked more like a console game than anything else available on smartphones at the time, …
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 …
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 …
