Season X of Fortnite is well underway, and with it comes the requisite string of patches and updates bringing new content, as well as reworking old content. The big new items in this patch cycle include the Zapper Trap, a thrown weapon that shocks enemies on detonation. Traps are steadily more dastardly in Fortnite. Weekly
As detailed on the Gearbox news blog, a Pandora Rift Zone has appeared on the Fortnite map has been seen, and it’s bringing with it a new in-game event. This new zone will create an aura that will alter the shape and the appearance of the whole area around it. This will cause the influenced area to
Last weekend, Fortnite World Cup champion Kyle ‘Bugha’ Giersdorf was swatted while streaming the battle royale game live on Twitch. The teenager was playing with two other pros, Timothy ‘Bizzle’ Miller and Danny ‘Dubs’ Walsh. Swatting involves finding out where someone lives, and then calling a local police department with some kind of vague but violent threat.
Fortnite is an incredibly popular game, and as the game only continues to grow in reach and value, the incentive for black-market activities within the game grows as well. Account hacking is a pretty major endeavor for scammers in any game, and that’s doubly true for the most popular battle royale title. That means that
Earlier this week, the ESA and several major gaming companies came together to promise a series of changes to the microtransaction ecosystem in modern video games. The idea was that these companies would band together to self-police their games and platforms by making multiple changes to how loot boxes and other monetization are handled. One
Fortnite is kicking of its next season of post-launch content, with the ever-popular battle royale title kicking off Season X this month. Of course, there’s an entirely new Battle Pass in Season 10, offering 100 new challenges to complete, with a similar number of rewards to earn for doing just that. Players looking to gift
The newest patch for the monster of the battle royale genre that is Fortnite is live, and gamers are already digging in to uncover all of the new weapons, locations and other goodies this update added. And as is par for the course, there’ a fair few things changes as well. Gamers across the globe
The new batch of events is headed for Epic’s Fortnite. 14 Days of Summer will bring out a ton of new and old content alike. So let’s dive into these fresh waters to see what’s beneath the surface. Each day will see a variety of new content being dropped into the world for players to
A story has popped up on Reddit, and is doing the rounds online, which serves as yet another cautionary tale against microtransactions the predatory targeting of unaware children in games. Reddit user A_Sad_Frog posted a story about how they let their niece and nephew use their PSN account, so that they could have access to
After Nepal voted to ban another popular battle royale title, gamers and fans of various games have been really nervous about the future of the genre. And even before that, the looming specter of legislation, especially in response to depicted violence or predatory monetization, has been a constant issue within the games industry. And now,
A newly released patch to Fortnite has adjusted a contentious option, and players seem a little split on how to respond. A recently deployed hotfix to The Baller, the rolling sphere of death, reduced it’s health by around 30%, from 300 down to 200. This change has apparently been in the cards for a while
The 8th Season of new content for the exceedingly popular battle royale, Fortnite, is well-underway. And as is usually the case, Epic and co. are busy plugging away and new content additions for the popular shooter. The latest weekly update in the v8.20 series is live as of now, so let’s unpack it and see
Epic has been quietly and steadily working on changes and patches for their flagship battle royale title, Fortnite. The company has been churning out bug fixes, new content and plenty of patches to players to make the game even better. This trend will continue with the release of the latest Fortnite patch, 8.20. That patch
The Fortnite 8.10 title update is pretty baller, because it’s rolling out a new vehicle into the battle royale landscape, OK I’ll stop. Anyway, the 8.10 update adds a few noteworthy additions to the game that we’re going to cover right here. First and foremost, Fortnite is getting a new vehicle called the Baller. Think
So Apex Legends is insanely popular. So popular that it’s growing at a faster rate compared to it’s main competitor, Fortnite. Respawn’s co-founder, Vince Zampella took to the internet to make this latest massive announcement for the new battle royale title. No one really expected this, the latest entry into the explosive battle royale genre
Loot boxes, long a source of frustration and addiction for some gamers, have become an increasingly problematic system for publishers and developers as well. Despite earning billions of dollars collectively for the games which include them, loot boxes are a font of anger and litigation as more public pressure mounts against the mechanics, which many
After the ongoing teases for Fortnite Season 8, the patch is finally live in-game. There’s a ton of new content, and a bunch of changes to the existing content. The 8.00 patch introduces the new Battle Pass, with more than 100 new levels, each with their own rewards for completion. Serious Fortnite players have tons
Fortnite and Apex Legends have both made big stirs in the Battle Royale genre. Since the launch of the newest game in the massively popular genre, Apex Legends, it has amassed a ton of new players, more than 10 million in a week in fact. The king of the hill is still undeniably Fortnite in
We’re only a few hours from the launch of the first Season 8 update Fortnite fans, are you ready? As was the case with previous content updates in Fortnite, Season 8 will include incremental changes layered into a wider update schedule which will likely introduce a combination of new map changes and new gameplay elements.
Fans are really excited for Season 8 of Fortnite, and Epic is wasting no time with teasing the newest batch of content updates to the popular battle royale title. And as usual, the newest tease a huge well, tease, and is incredibly ambiguous. From Fortnite‘s official Twitter account, it looks like the next season will
Snapshots of revenue by platform for popular battle royale Fortnite are showing a downward trend in popularity for the game, according to reports from data collection and analysis firm Superdata. These reports point to an overall falling trend of revenue, after a particularly strong 2018 revenue stream. Despite pushing an increase in year-to-year sales, Fortnite
If you haven’t been paying attention this past weekend, you may have missed this story, but in that case you’re in for one big failure of a story. A highly anticipated festival aimed at the young audience for the popular Epic battle royale title turned out to be a major letdown over the week as
Ahead of the upcoming new season of content in the juggernaut of the battle royale genre, the game world is once again changing as Epic teases the new content by slowly changing or adding new things. This time, the game world appears to be breaking apart, instead of giant purple cubes, massive food or whatever
Epic is continuing to tweak and add things in Fortnite, their exceptionally popular battle royale title. The company just announced the next phase of patches to the game on Reddit, starting with the 7.40 update. The major focuses on this upcoming patch are all gameplay and balance related. Following the tone set by 7.30 and
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