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.

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.

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.

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.

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: 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.

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.

The long-awaited mouse and keyboard support for Xbox One was added in Microsoft's latest update. Fortnite and Warframe are the only titles to support the newest feature with 5 more games coming in November and another 7 at later date.

The US Army has announced plans to field their own esports team in an attempt to bolster their ranks, further the Army's brand and address the growing disconnect with the society, as staff sergeant Ryan Meaux revealed in a Reddit AMA.

Epic Games have rolled out Fortnite's new update 6.30, which brings a new limited time mode called Food Fight, a new mounted turret trap, removal of the much-maligned glider redeploy feature and of course, a bunch of other tweaks and fixes.