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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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Epic finally budge and nerf Fortnite's B.R.U.T.E. mechs

fortnite artwork showing a mech from season 10
You seriously had to be living in a completely Fortnite-free space not to have heard about the dreaded B.R.U.T.E. mechs, and Epic's social channels are filled with calls to remove them. Well, they didn't dump them, but they did nerf them.

Apex Legends Season 2 falls short of S1, GTA Online doing great

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SuperData's number crunchers have rolled out their report on the worldwide digital games market in 2019, where they found that Apex Legends' Season 2 isn't doing great, but GTA Online's Diamond Casino & Resort is raking in big bucks.

Fortnite's new Junk Rift could help crush your Brute mech enemies

Fortnite's newly added item - the Junk Rift
Fortnite: Battle Royale's content update v10.10 has landed and it may just soothe the burns caused by Brute mechs by adding a new item - the Junk Rift. That's not all though, as the update also brings the morphing Glitched Consumables.

Epic: Fortnite's mech was added to help casuals get more kills

Epic Games have acknowledged the backlash from players over the new BRUTE mechs. Epic say that they understand the players' frustrations but still don't have any plans to remove the overpowered mechs, that have been added to help casuals.

Fortnite update adds Retail Row Rift Zone and World Run LTM

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In the latest content update for Fortnite, Epic Games have introduced Retail Row Rift Zone and World Run limited-time mode among other things. Furthermore, there are some BRUTE mech changes that also have been added to Fortnite Creative.

Epic reduce the spawn rates of Fortnite's BRUTE mechs 

fortnite artwork showing a mech from season 10
Epic Games have reduced the spawn rates of BRUTE mechs in Fortnite after negative reception from players over the last week. Epic said these changes affect both Arena and Tournament playlists but unfortunately not the casual, normal modes.

Epic Games & THQ Nordic take additional steps against loot boxes

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Epic Games and THQ Nordic have been on the receiving end of the exclusivity deal controversies lately but they are garnering goodwill another way - by actively combating paid loot boxes even harder than ESA requested from the members.

Fortnite v10.0 update adds Automatic Sniper Rifle and Tilted Town

Fortnite's new weapon - automatic sniper rifle
Epic have rolled out the v10.0 content update for Fortnite and it adds the Automatic Sniper Rifle and a temporal glitch that transforms Neo Tilted into a Wild West settlement with an added twist. Also announced was the Arsenal LTM.

Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins leaving Twitch, will be Mixer exclusive

DJ Marshmello and Ninja getting ready for the tournament
Popular Fortnite player and one of Twitch's biggest streaming stars, Tyler 'Ninja' Blevins, has caught everyone off guard with his latest announcement that he's leaving the platform. He will be streaming exclusively on Mixer from now on.

Fortnite World Cup winner doesn't get to keep all of his winnings

Fortnite World Cup winner in Solos category
It turns out that Fortnite World Cup's 16-year old winner Kyle 'Bugha' Giersdorf won't get to keep all of his winnings, due to his contract with the esports team Sentinels, which stipulates they're entitled to a share of the money.