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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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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.

Epic's Fortnite update adds jetpacks and two limited time modes

Fortnite's latest backpack item addition, the long awaited Jetpack
We've been eagerly awaiting for Epic to throw jetpacks into Fortnite: Battle Royale for quite a while now and they finally did with the latest content update v4.2, which marks the return of Solid Gold mode and the new LTM Close Encounters.

How to get the hidden Fortnite tier in Blockbuster Week 2

Landing into Tilted Towers, location inside Epic's game Fortnite
Fortnite's hidden free tier for Blockbuster Week 2 has been deciphered and discovered, courtesy of reddit user Bfor45. This article explains how to get it, but as you may already know, you will first need to grind the weekly challenges.

Fortnite v3.3 adds remote explosives, Blitz and Llama loot piñata

A Llama shaped pinata from the popular game Fortnite
Epic Games' Fortnite: Battle Royale is not only on fire with updates, it's spreading like wildfire as well. Epic have rolled out the v3.3 update a bit later than intended, as well as started the signup phase for Fortnite's iOS version.

Fortnite gets sub region matchmaking, Close Encounters is back

Fortnite character flying towards Loot Lake, which turned purple
As the mysterious cube reached Loot Lake and painted it purple, Epic Megagames announced the return of Close Encounters LTM and the launch of Fortnite's sub region matchmaking for Southeast Asia, which is a region soft-lock of sorts.

Fortnite patch adds Port-a-Fortress and Spiky Stadium consumables

Latest consumable added to Fortnite Playground, the Spiky Stadium
When Epic say it's coming soon - it's coming soon and Fortnite's patch 5.41 has added Port-a-Fortress and Spiky Stadium to the game, although the latter will only be available in Fortnite's creative mode. Port-a-Fortress is a beast though.