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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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Ninja gets his own Fortnite skin, Epic promise more celebrity skins

Poster for Ninja's Fortnite skin
Having started its journey as a hastily assembled battle royale demo, Fortnite has grown into an unmatched global phenomenon, not least because of religious devotion from its content creators. Now, Epic will make sure their love is immortalised.

Fortnite v11.40 brings back Heavy Assault Rifle via Sidegrading

Fortnite character carrying another character across a beach
Epic's content-making machinery is back in action with a bang, as Fortnite's v11.40 update brings back the heavy Assault Rifle, albeit by 'sidegrading'. Thankfully, the dev also dropped the material costs for upgrading weapons.

Fortnite tops 2019 revenue charts despite LoL having more players

Fortnite - Polar Legends Pack promo image
Fortnite has topped yearly revenue charts for the second year in a row even though most of the money didn't come from mobile. Furthermore, League of Legends has more players but doesn't convert them to spenders as well, according to SuperData.

Fortnite not in top 10 PC games revenue in November 2019

Fortnite characters in Season 11
Epic Games' wunderkind, Fortnite Battle Royale, has dropped out of top 10 video games by revenue on PC. On the other side of the spectrum, League of Legends is still number one, ahead of Dungeon Fighter Online which takes the throne occasionally.

Fortnite: New Year's event kicks off, will cover all time zones

Three Fortnite characters escaping an explosion
Much like they did last year, Epic are planning a big visual show for the end of the year in Fortnite: Battle Royale. Depending on where you are, the event has officially kicked off and will eventually cover all the time zones.

Fortnite - Polar Legends Pack is now live with four different Outfits

Fortnite - Polar Legends Pack promo image
Fortnite's Winterfest is in full swing and now the festivities continue with the new Polar Legends Pack that's momentarily live and features four new Outfits. The Lodge will continue to host new gifts and Challenges until 2 January 2020.

Fortnite players getting free holiday gifts in Winterfest 2019

Fortnite: Battle Royale, Winterfest 2019 poster
Epic Games are going full freebie mode for the holidays and they've got a lot of gifts coming, both in in their store and Fortnite: Battle Royale. Now, they announced Winterfest 2019 with 14 days worth of free gifts, challenges and more.

Fortnite's newly-added Battle Lab lets you create own battle royale

Three Fortnite characters escaping an explosion
Epic Games rolled out the v11.31 update for Fortnite: Battle Royale and the star of the show is the Battle Lab, which lets you and up to 15 other friends jump into your own Battle Royale island, customise loot pools and more.

Fortnite was the most covered game of 2019 with almost 100k articles

Three Fortnite characters looking at the new island
Epic Games' battle royale was the most covered game of 2019 with 97,732 articles, beating Hideo Kojima's Death Stranding and Respawn's Apex Legends in second and third, respectively.

Fortnite's Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker features glider gifts

Fortnite, Star Wars event poster
There's less than a day left until Epic's collaboration with director J. J. Abrams, which will have an exclusive scene from Star Wars: The Rise of Skywalker screened in the game, in Risky Reels. The dev announced that everyone who attends gets a free gift too.