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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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Sony finally cave in, Fortnite's PS4 cross-play beta starts today

Fortnite charatcters with pickaxes and blueprints
I still had to check twice to make sure my eyes aren't deceiving me but it's true alright - the mighty gods of mount Sonympus have finally decided to allow for Fortnite cross-play on PlayStation 4 and the beta is actually starting today.

Microsoft announce Xbox One keyboard & mouse support launch date

Promotional image for the Razer partnership with Microsoft
Xbox One will be receiving full mouse & keyboard support in the next few weeks, although the exact date for the feature's launch has not been stated yet. Microsoft partnered up with Razer for the launch, but other peripherals will work too.

Epic teases Fortnite's Season 6 with a DJing llama

Epic Games' teaser for Fortnite's Season 6 showing a llama DJ
Epic Games have posted the first teaser for Fortnite's upcoming Season 6, writing "All great parties need a DJ". While we're not really sure what they mean exactly, one thing can be said for certain - Fortnite's future is purple alright.

Fortnite update adds Xbox One X support and sweet smoke grenades

A female character in Fortnite standing on a wooden platform holding a rifle.
Fortnite just got a new update and it's a doozie. The patch is going to help fix many bugs as well as add some new content to both Battle Royale and Save the World modes. Sweet smoke grenades incoming. So let's get into it, shall we?

Fortnite Mobile Android compatible devices and Google Play Store

Two skins received by ranking up in Fortnite: Battle Royale
Everyone is eagerly awaiting Fortnite Battle Royale's debut on Android devices, and Epic Games keep teasing us regularly. For example, there are hints that the game won't be available on Google Play Store and a reveal of compatible devices.

Fortnite's smoke nades are coming back as stink bombs

Pepe le Pew in front of an atomic explosion and Fortnite logo
As mysterious countdown started poking out of TVs on Fortnite's newly launched Switch version, Epic Games are delivering on their promise from the patch v3.3, where they said they'll bring back smoke grenades in a slightly reworked package.

Fortnite hits 2m players on Switch as Nintendo defends crossplay

Player dropping in Fortnite
As Epic's global addiction Fortnite: Battle Royale was busy rearranging the Switch's hierarchy by racking up two million downloads in less than 24 hours from launch, Nintendo was defending crossplay implying they don't care what Sony does.

Fortnite Switch won't accept accounts linked to PlayStation 4

Season 4 user interface from Epic's Fortnite Battle Royale
Now it's one thing to refuse to implement crossplay on PlayStation 4 but it's a whole another thing when linking your Fortnite account to a PS4 prevents you from playing Fortnite on the newly announced Nintendo Switch. Antisocial much?

Fortnite: Battle Royale getting a thermal scoped assault rifle

Fortnite's latest addition, the thermal scoped assault rifle
Epic Games have decided to shake things up in terms of Fortnite: Battle Royale's sneakiness by adding a thermal scoped assault rifle and although we don't have many specifics, do you really need 'em? Sniper Shootout LTM is back as well.

Fortnite update 4.3 brings back two LTMs, adds Shopping Cart

Fortnite: Battle Royale's new vehicle called the Shopping Cart
Epic Games have updated Fortnite: Battle Royale to version 4.3, adding Mushrooms as shield replenishment, its first vehicle the Shopping Cart and two previously available and quite popular limited time modes, Blitz v2 and Teams of 20 V2.