Tag Archives: Fortnite

Earlier this week, Fortnite Battle Royale surpassed 800,000 concurrent players, which unfortunately led to server downtime and brought to light a number of issues. Matchmaking errors, client and server-side performance and packet loss have all been named as specific problems and fortunately, Epic Games is already working on tackling them. …

Update: There has been an update to this ongoing story. It turns out that one of the two defendants in this case is a 14 year-old boy who simply posted a video online showing the cheats in action. He did not create the cheats being shown as originally thought and …

Fortnite made waves the other week after using PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds to market its own Battle Royale mode. The PUBG developers lashed out at Epic Games, which has become a lot more understandable now that its new Battle Royale mode has pushed Fortnite past 7 million players. The official Fortnite Twitter …

Fortnite found itself involuntarily in the middle of some controversy last week after the studio behind PUBG blasted the game's Battle Royale mode as a rip-off. Still, this doesn't appear to have deterred players at all, as Fortnite's Battle Royale game mode managed to garner over one million players the …

Last week, Bluehole studios bizarrely started publicly ragging on Epic Games, claiming that the studio created a ‘carbon copy' of PUBG with its new Battle Royale mode for Fortnite. At the time, it was said that Bluehole was contemplating “further action” and today, the studio clarified some of its comments …

It is no secret that PUBG is the biggest game in the world right now. In the last few months alone, the game has sold over 10 million copies and gone on to become the most played game on Steam. With that in mind, it should come as no surprise …

Over the weekend, plenty of Fortnite players on PS4 discovered that they were being matched up in games with Xbox One players. This was particularly strange as so far this generation, Sony has been a roadblock for developers looking to implement cross-play between PS4 and other consoles. Now, Epic Games …

There has been a lot of debate surrounding Sony's stance on cross-platform play between the Xbox One and PS4. For a while now, Microsoft has been completely open to it, with Sony being the roadblock when it comes to Minecraft, ARK: Survival Evolved, Rocket League, Gwent and more. However, it …

It's been almost three years to the day that we first got a look at Epic's base building, undead killing, class based FPS, Fortnite, which is a long old time in the world of gaming. Especially since similarly themed games like Seven Days to Die have been released since. However …

Fortnite is the base building, zombie slaying, competitive, cooperative shooter that was showed off way back in 2012. While the idea of killing undead enemies and building a base has been done by many others at this point (Rust and Seven Days to Die, to name but a few) Epic …

Despite not being heard of for nearly two years, Epic Games' Fortnite is finally having the lid pulled off it in practically daily reveals by Game Informer. Today we're looking at the campaign map, which is customisable, procedurally generated and still filled with the odd bit of curated content to …

Epic Games upcoming builder, horde-defense, shooter title, Fortnite, has a cartoony theme to it despite its use of the impressively detailed Unreal Engine 4.0 behind the scenes. However, you'd be forgiven for thinking its enemies, the “monsters,” could have come from another, similarly anti-undead game, now that we know a …

Two of the biggest cooperative, class based shooters to come out this year are undoubtedly Turtle Rock Studios' Evolve and Epic Games' Fortnite. While we don't know everything about each game yet, information is starting to trickle out about both and it seems one common thread they share, is that …

Fortnite is a game that Epic has been developing for many years at this point but apart from its orginal reveal a couple of years ago and the odd rumbling, we haven't heard anything until this week. Two days ago Fortnite got a teaser site with a single image on …

Very little has been heard about Fortnite since its initial trailer back in December 2011, with only the odd screenshot release and teaser-like update to the official Facebook page. Back then the concept of a base building, zombie survival title in a decent engine was fresh, but today we have …

Last year Epic treated us to our first look at the next-generation of the Unreal Engine, 4.0, with its whistlestop tour of particle and lighting effects. It was impressive stuff, but the Infiltrator demo from a few days ago took it over the top with how smooth it looked – …