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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 forks out $100m for Fortnite's 2019 competitive prize pool

Fortnite World Cup 2019 logo
Epic Games have shared some of their plans for Fortnite's competitive year 2019 and the company forked out $100 million for the annual prize pool, starting with Fortnite World Cup Qualifiers that are scheduled to start on 13 April 2019.

Activision, EA CEOs make the list of 100 Most Overpaid CEOs

Activision Blizzard's CEO, Bobby Kotick
In times of seemingly open and blatant exploitation of employees in the gaming industry, financial firm aptly called As You Sow published a report on the Most Overpaid CEOs from 2015 to 2019, with Activision and EA CEOs making the list.

Fortnite Season 8 will be pirate-themed, Epic drops first hints

Picture of the teaser for Fortnite's Season 8
Epic Games have started teasing Fortnite fans with potential content for Fortnite's Season 8. The limited info that is available so far mostly points to Loot Lake and Wailing Woods as the future points of interest as the map changes.

Fortnite's Marshmello concert has broken the game's CCU record

DJ Marshmello and Ninja getting ready for the tournament
It turns out that Marshmello's show in Fortnite: Battle Royale was not just for show, as Epic Games said that the gig helped Fortnite break its earlier concurrent user record by 2.5 million, with around 10.7 showing up to Marshmello's gig.

Driftin' LTM added back to Fortnite after minor changes

Fortnite's newly added 'vehicle' - the drift board
Epic Games have added Driftin' limited-time mode back to Fornite after introducing some minor changes to the mode. Originally, Driftin' LTM was added in the latest patch but after the negative feedback, Epic decided to tweak it a bit more.

China halts issuing of game licences to solve hefty backlog

Logo of Chinese game developer Tencent Games
Chinese authorities have decided to halt issuing of licenses for monetisation of new games, in order to clear up the backlog of games pending licenses, which in turn built up after a similar move by the government in March last year.

Organiser of Fortnite's Norwich event forced out of business

Photos comparing Fortnite ProAm and Fortnite Live Norwich events
In spite of the disastrous response to the so-called Fortnite event in Norwich, Exciting Events, organisers of the event, were still planning to hold similar ones in Spalding and Newark. Unfortunately, it looks like they're out of business.

Organiser of Fortnite's shoddy Norwich event to end up in court

Fortnite's private eye-themed cosmetics from update 4.5
Epic Games are back in court once more, after learning about the shoddy, not to mention shady, Fortnite event that went down in Norwich recently, announcing they have issued a claim against the organisers in the High Court of London.

Fortnite's 7.40 content update driftboards and Driftin' LTM

Fortnite's newly added means of transportation - the drift board
Epic Games are back to their usual schedule with no delays this time, as the 7.40 content update for Fortnite: Battle Royale has just added driftboards, along with a limited time mode for players to put them to use called Driftin' LTM.

Fortnite dance copyright request gets shot down, are we done yet?

picture showing two characters dancing
We must admit it's a bit tiring seeing anyone who's ever danced on TV trying to get a piece of Fortnite pie and the plaintiffs' struggle has just got harder as the US Copyright Office has refused to copyright Alfonso Ribeiro's dance.