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Fortnite Battle Royale

Fortnite Battle Royale is a world-famous free-to-play battle royale game developed and published by Epic Games. It's a companion game to Fortnite: Save the World.
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Fortnite 12.30 patch notes crowdsourced, changes to recoil/bloom, new items

Fortnite, Chapter 2: Season 2, Battle Pass items
Epic Games don't seem to be interested in changing anything about their patch notes, or lack thereof to be exact, but that didn't stop the Fortnite community from investigating and chipping in with their own crowdsourced version.

Legendary Oro Outfit is now live in Fortnite

Fortnite - Legendary Oro Outfit
Fortnite players can now sport the Legendary Oro Outfit. The outfit was leaked back when v11.40 update launched and the Oro Challenges were data-mined from v12.21 update's files. Complete two challenges for the Greed Wrap and four for the Gilded Scepter Pickaxe.

Epic's employee apologises and explains Fortnite's ongoing lag troubles

Fortnite, Chapter 2: Season 2 characters flying
It's not every day that you see a message like this coming out of Epic Games, albeit it doesn't seem to have been officially cleared. Alas, their employee spilt his heart out and responded to the recent torrent of complaints aimed at Fortnite's rampant lag.

Fortnite adds Choppa, Spy Games and more in v12.20 update

fortnite artwork showing the choppa
The Choppa is now live in Fortnite on all platforms. It is a brand new vehicle that you and up to four other squadmates can use for safer and easier travel around the map. On top of this, update v12.20 adds new locations and The Spy Games LTM.

Fortnite's Champion Series 2020 separates PC and consoles/mobile tournaments

Three Fortnite characters escaping an explosion
Epic Games posted the latest update for the Fortnite Champion Series (FNCS), and as usual, it's time to be looking for your Duos soulmates if you want to take part. FNCS' action will even be getting a training simulation soon.

GeForce Now is most dev friendly, so Epic and Fortnite are behind them

Fortnite female character in black-and-yellow outfit
In one of his recent tweets, Epic Games' CEO Tim Sweeney reaffirmed his company's support to Nvidia's GeForce Now streaming service, calling it the most developer and publisher friendly model that might help tear down the entire 30 per cent revenue-taking "rotten structure".

Fortnite - Deadpool's plunger location

Next week of Fortnite's Deadpool challenge will bring the players who completed the weekly challenges his katanas back bling. The first two weeks of Deadpool Fortnite challenges rewarded the players with a spray. Week three is no different.

Fortnite 12.10 gets no official patch notes, community assembles some

Fortnite - Roundabout Back Bling
Looks like Epic Games are going even more radical with their no-patch-notes strategy, as their only notes of changes coming in 12.10 are fixes from their Trello board. Thankfully, the community came to the rescue once more and assembled some.

Fortnite developer accuses SuperData of 'wildly inaccurate' reports on game's revenue

Fortnite characters looking at the camera
Just as the dust settled around blatantly inaccurate reporting on Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney's keynote speech from this year's Dice Summit, the company accused SuperData market intelligence firm of wildly inaccurate reporting of Fortnite's revenue.

Fortnite's Iris Starter Pack is now live in Australia and New Zealand

Fortnite - Iris Starter Pack promo image
Data miners have managed to dig up some information on Fortnite's leaked Iris Starter Pack. The pack contains the Iris Skin, Back Bling, a pickaxe and some V-Bucks. The leaked pack is now available in Australia and New Zealand.