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Epic Games, Inc. is an American video game and software developer and publisher based in Cary, North Carolina; mostly known for their Fortnite game.

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Fortnite's Playground LTM returns on 25 July

Well, if there's anyone who can make server crashes work in their favour, it's Epic Games. The company is bringing back Fortnite's Playground limited time mode tomorrow, 25 July 2018, although this time it will be a much less crashy affair.

JULY 24

Fortnite birthday event has special prizes

It now looks like a flash but boy did Fortnite go a long way from its launch on 24 July 2017, taking less than a year to steamroll the undisputed battle royale king in PUBG and set new standards in the process. Celebrations? But of course.

JULY 23

Epic defends Fortnite Summer Skirmish winner

This weekend's Fortnite Summer Skirmish has ended on a bit of a sour note after reddit hordes came after the winner, player called iDropz_bodies, for alleged cheating his way to the $130,000 prize. Epic responded though and cleared it up.

JULY 23

Analysts predict games to earn $138b in 2018

Market research firms are increasingly mindful of the gaming industry, with latest reports by the Wall Street bean counters projecting a 13.3 per cent year over year increase in video game spending, which equates to $16.2 billion.

JULY 20

Microsoft's gaming business hits $10 billion

Microsoft's Q4 fiscal report is in and team Xbox have got a lot to be happy about. The company's annual gaming revenue has exceeded $10 billion for the first time while Xbox software and services reported on-year growth by 36 per cent.

JULY 20

Unreal Engine 4.20 drops with bells, whistles

Even though most news coming from Epic Games is either reserved for Fortnite Battle Royale or Save the World, we shouldn't forget that the company has been using both games to perfect and polish that what drives them - the Unreal Engine.

JULY 19

Epic unveil S5 Week 2 challenges for Fortnite

Fortnite's unreal maker Epic have rolled out the second set of weekly challenges in Season 5, tasking their players will scoring baskets, searching between an oasis, rock archway and dinosaurs and, of course, shooting people in the face.

JULY 19

Fortnite's revenue exceeds $1 billion

That Epic Megagames have got a mega game in Fortnite: Battle Royale was clear to anyone who has spun it up at the time PUBG was all the rage but I'm not entirely sure even Epic knew what sort of monetary beast they've managed to create.

JULY 18

Fortnite's Season 5 challenges kick off

Epic Games have kicked off Fortnite' Season 5 weekly challenges in a brand new format, where the first four challenges come free to all players, while the other three are reserved for Fortnite: Battle Royale's Battle Pass holders.

JULY 16

Epic Games increased developers' sales cuts

It's raining money over at Epic Games and in a move unusual for today's world, they have decided not to hog it all for themselves. They have instead increased Unreal Engine marketplace sellers' sales cut from 70 per cent to 88 per cent.

JULY 13

Can Elemental_Ray compete in Fortnite?

Epic Games have announced that Fortnite Summer Skirmish series will have a hefty $8 million budget. The series will feature a rotation of Fortnite influencers and competitors, so it begs the question - will Elemental_Ray get to participate?

JULY 12

Fortnite kicks off Season 5 with team vehicle

Fortnite's much awaited Season 5 has officially kicked off and Epic's penchant for the mysterious has not been in vain as the dev added team oriented karts, a new desert biome and two new locations - Paradise Palms and Lazy Links.

JULY 12

Fortnite's Summer Skirmish has $8m prize pool

With less than a day left until Fortnite's Season 5 kicks off in all its still-mysterious glory, Epic have announced Summer Skirmish series of competitions starting this weekend, where the company will be giving away as much as $8 million.

JULY 11

Fortnite China release date teased by Tencent

Tencent have posted the picture shown above to their Twitter and stated they are indeed talking about Fortnite. According to the calendar on the picture, the game should release in China on 24 July 2018 but a platform is yet unspecifed.

JULY 11

Fortnite llamas sprout up across Europe

Well Epic is definitely going big in Fortnite: Battle Royale's Season 5 and the newly appeared in-game teaser saying "Worlds Collide" sounds about right, what with llamas, Durrr Burgers and Fortnite agents popping up all over the map.

JULY 10

Epic teases Fortnite Season 5, three days

Epic Megagames' sneakiness knows no bounds as their latest tease for Fortnite: Battle Royale's upcoming Season 5 shows the reality rift and a peculiar cat-like creature, opening up the floodgates of theories on what Epic exactly mean.

JULY 9

Fortnite's missinng Durr Burger sign found

While scouting a Californian desert for snapshot opportunities, photographer Sela Shiloni stumbled across a real life Durrr Burger model, police car and a strange sign, all of which are most definitely Epic's teasers for Fortnite Season 5.

JULY 7

Fortnite Playground closing date revealed

Epic Games have announced that Fortnite's limited time mode Playground is going to last until 12 July 2018. They stated that the mode is going offline until they upgrade it and deliver the next version, meaning it's not gone forever.

JULY 7

Fortnite cheat software laced with adware

Over 78.000 Fortnite cheaters found themselves in a peculiar situation when they got malware delivered to their machines instead of a one stop free V-bucks and aimbot solution. Streaming service Rainway caught the adware infection.

JULY 4

Fortnite goes gangster with Drum Gun

Epic Mega Games have rolled out the 4.5 content update for their global addiction called Fortnite: Battle Royale and even though it's a bit on the skimpy side, there's still one valuable addition with plenty of character - the drum gun.

JULY 3

Fortnite's rifts are getting bigger

So what's cracking down at Lonely Lodge? Well, reality apparently, as a rift similar to the one that appeared on Fortnite's sky seems to be cracking open on a Lonely Lodge bungalow. Season 5 draws closer and Epic are up to something. Again.

JULY 2

Fortnite's Playground mode is still on hold

Epic Games have released the Playgrounds limited time mode along with update 4.5 on 27 June 2018, but removed it shortly afterwards due to issues preventing players from launching the mode. The devs have been trying to fix this ever since.