Fortnite News

The game that Epic Games promised would be rooted in PvE is turning out to be a PvP phenomenon. Fortnite Battle Royale peaked at over half a million concurrent players over the weekend, around the same time that Battle Royale frontrunner PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds peaked at nearly 2M concurrent players. Epic Games published an infographic on Twitter today showing off just [...]

A good anti-cheat software is a must-have for any game, especially for a competitive game like Fortnite. Epic Games vowed to crack down on cheating and apparently employed a cheat-detection system to help them carry it out. The problem is that the system turned out to be a bit too aggressive, erroneously flagging and banning players who weren’t necessarily doing [...]

“Nobody likes playing with cheaters. Not you, not me. Nobody,” says Fortnite Community Coordinator Nathan Mooney. Epic Games is serious about keeping the “competitive integrity” of Fortnite’s Battle Royale mode which is why they brought the mighty banhammer down on “thousands” of cheaters earlier this week. Cheaters are no fun to play with, but what are we doing about them?https://t.co/AFoXMujOqd [...]

Last week, Fortnite debuted its free-to-play Battle Royale mode and recording a whopping 1 million players on the first night alone. Yesterday, that number has not only doubled, not even tripled, but septupled! (That’s x7 by the way.) Here’s the official Twitter announcement. Thanks to over 7 million of you who have played Fortnite! We want to keep the Battle [...]

Fortnite recently launched its free-to-play PvP Battle Royale and it turned out to be a huge success. If you’re a PvE player, however, you’re probably wondering what this means for the game’s PvE mode. Well, Epic Games hasn’t forgotten about its Save The World PvE mode. In fact, the studio will be rolling out a new update called Horde Bash [...]

It’s official, Battle Royale is the biggest thing in gaming today. If PUBG’s record-breaking rise to fame isn’t enough proof, then maybe the 1 million players that Fortnite racked up during its free Battle Royale mode debut will do it for you. Epic Games announced the news on Twitter yesterday. Over 1 million players have partied on the Battle Bus [...]

It seems every company and their mother wants to break through into the Battle Royale genre. And with good reason - PUBG has been kicking ass and taking names as of late, showing there is a high demand for battle royale-style games. So it only makes sense that other games want to get their own piece of the pie - [...]

Fortnite has supported cross-platform play ever since its Early Access launch in July. Cross-console play between PS4 and Xbox One users, however, is a different matter. Imagine their surprise when they suddenly found themselves playing with each other over the weekend. Player PRE_-CISION-_ posted screenshots and videos on Reddit as proof of the incident. Why all the fuss? It’s probably [...]

Looks like Fortnite has jumped into the Battle Royale bandwagon alongside PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds and H1Z1: King of the Kill. According to today’s dev blog, the new Battle Royale game mode is set to go live with the v1.6 update. And, from the look of things, it’s going to be epic. “Fortnite Battle Royale is the new 100-player, Last man Standing [...]