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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 Games' Fortnite now has 200 million registered players

Upcoming legendary skins for Fortnite's Founder's Pack owners
The most popular game in the world has hit another major milestone. Fortnite now has 200 million registered users which is a 60 per cent increase from the last registered total of 125 million which Epic Games revealed back in June 2018.

Fortnite Winter Royale tournament is getting ruined by hackers

Winter Royale tournament for Fortnite: Battle Royale
Epic Games have announced Winter Royale tournament for Fortnite at a rather awkward time, but that seems to be the least of its problems. A popular streamer, and winner of several Fortnite competitions, Tfue, was eliminated by a hacker.

Wreck-It Ralph pops up in Fortnite, full cameo is coming soon

Fortnite's in-game teaser for Wreck-It Ralph's cameo appearance
It turns out that Fortnite will not only be joining the snowy festive spirit with a winter of its own, it will also get a cameo appearance by Wreck-It Ralph, hero of Disney's freshly launched animated movie Ralph Breaks the Internet.

Approaching cloud has players expecting Fortnite Ice Age

Winter Royale tournament for Fortnite: Battle Royale
Of course, it's too early to talk about an Ice Age when the cloud is still nothing more than an innocuous white puff on the horizon, but something's coming and we're guessing it's got something to do with Epic's Winter Royale tournament.

Fortnite's update 6.30 brings Wild West LTM and dynamite

Two cowboys facing off in Fortnite's Wild West LTM
We've known about it for a while thanks to data miners but it's official now. Epic Games rolled out the 6.30 update for Fortnite, adding some of that Red Dead Redemption 2 mojo with Wild West LTM and a new, also-leaked weapon - dynamite.

Fortnite outsold Hitman 2 on the week of the latter's release

Promotional image for Fortnite's Deep Freeze bundle
You didn't read wrong and this is not a typo. Despite being a free to play game, Fortnite outsold Hitman 2 in the week of 12 November 2018. Technically, it's the Deep Freeze bundle that sold, since Fortnite is a free to play game.

Spyro Reignited Trilogy deposes Red Dead Redemption 2

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We'd normally say that Activision have pulled quite the feat dethroning Red Dead Redemption 2 in the UK, had there not been for the fact that Pokemon: Let's Go, Pikachu! and Let's Go, Eevee!'s combined sales actually made it the winner.

All the winners from the Golden Joystick Awards 2018

picture showing golden joystick awards 2018 logo
God of War was the big winner of this year's Golden Joystick Awards taking home some big prizes like PlayStation 4 Game of the Year and Best Storytelling among others. But Epic's Fortnite took the main trophy - Ultimate Game of the Year.

Fortnite jumps on Red Dead Redemption 2 bandwagon with new mode

Fortnite's leaked item dynamite that's coming with Wild West LTM
Fortnite: Battle Royale will be riding some of that Red Dead Redemption 2 hype train with a Wild West themed limited time mode next week. The leak came at a price though, as Epic Games shifted their leak-fighting efforts into overdrive.

Falsely banned Fortnite players are getting free V-bucks

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Epic games are apologizing to wrongly banned Fortnite players by reactivating their accounts and giving them 2,000 V-Bucks for free. This policy comes after some players were caught in the crossfire of Epic's recent cheater hunts.