Fortnite

Fortnite’s new Japanese-themed season is excellent, but some players have expressed frustrations about changes to XP rewards that appear to make XP gains slower.

In response, Epic Games just announced a few adjustments to boost how much XP you can get, and it’s promising to make “further adjustments as needed.”

Fortnite’s nostalgia trip continues, this time with the return of OG, which brings back the game’s very first chapter. It’ll be available as a permanent fixture staring on December 6th.

Following a record-breaking virtual concert, Fortnite’s sixth chapter kicks off tomorrow, which means it’s time for a new map. The Japanese-themed “Hunters” season will introduce locales like “Demon’s Dojo” and “Nightshift Forest,” and presumably at some point Godzilla will show up. Also, there’s a giant, ancient turtle. You can check out the full details on the new season right here.

Fortnite’s most recent virtual concert just wrapped up, and Epic Games already says that it was the biggest in the game’s history, with more than 14 million concurrent players. For comparison, more than 12 million concurrent players attended the Travis Scott event in 2020. If you missed it, the event will air again at 8PM ET tonight.

CRKD has announced a new version of its compact NEO S controller with an attachment that adds five fret buttons for playing Fortnite Festival and other rhythm games. The accessory was designed by some of the people who created Guitar Hero and DJ Hero’s peripherals, and the controller is available for preorder now for $59.99 with shipping expected to start as early as November 29th.

After a series of leaks, Epic has confirmed that Godzilla is coming to Fortnite. He’ll appear in a new season called “Hunters,” which also features Baymax of Big Hero 6 fame. It kicks off on December 1st — the day after the next in-game concert. Now to see what a kaiju looks like in Jordans.

It’s been less than a month since Fortnite’s last concert, where Snoop Dogg and Ice Spice performed in Times Square. But the game is already gearing up for another performance, this one more virtual, to close out Chapter 2: Remix on November 30th. It’ll include the debut of a new Juice WRLD track — you can check out all the details right here.

As of December 1st, Fortnite Crew, a monthly $11.99 subscription that already includes perks like the Battle Royale battle pass and 1,000 V-bucks, will also give you access to the rewards passes for Fortnite Festival, Lego Fortnite, and a new “OG Pass” that will tie into the revived Fortnite OG mode. The change is part of Epic’s work to streamline its passes.

After a brief delay, Fortnite is introducing a new cosmetic called “kicks” on November 21st that lets you change your character’s shoes. Yes, it’s yet another thing to buy in the game, but I also can’t wait to make a ninja turtle wear Air Jordans. Here’s a full rundown of the supported skins.

Could be handy if you want to keep track of what your favorite creators are making, or where else to find them on the internet.

Eminem is now live in Fortnite for week two of its Chapter 2 Remix event. Players can purchase his avatar and visit a special in-game location called Spaghetti Grotto which ostensibly features his mother’s signature dish. But the most inspired Eminem-flavored addition to the game is a mythic minigun that spits out bullets synced up to the rapid-fire lyrics from “Rap God.”

They’ll be performing at Times Square in NYC, but you can watch the show in Fortnite as part of the game’s kick-off for the next season.

The show starts at 6:30PM ET, and we have a guide on how to watch. If you want to see it, jump in now in case capacity fills up.

Epic has been teasing another throwback season following the success of Fortnite OG. But it looks like it will be preceded by an event called “the prelude” on November 1st at 6:30PM ET, which appears to have something to do with music. Maybe a surprise concert is in store. At the very least, there will be butterflies.

As part of its get-out-the-vote efforts — which included Tim Walz playing Crazy Taxi — the Kamala Harris campaign has created a Fortnite experience called Freedom Town, USA. You can try the experience at code 7331-5536-6547.

Hopefully the campaign makes an Animal Crossing island, too.

Fortnite’s Halloween event kicks off on October 11th, and it will add Jigsaw to the battle royale lineup. He should feel right at home in a squad with pop stars and Disney characters.

That’s from Ben Grossman — who, I should note, is here to hype Epic’s developer tools like Unreal Editor for Fortnite. Still, I kind of agree with him.

Magnopus helped make recent Metallica and Karol G Fortnite concerts.

Epic is giving creators another brand they can build Fortnite experiences around: Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles. Creators will be able to publish their TMNT-themed islands starting in November.

Creators can already make Lego and Fall Guys-themed islands.

Seems like smart additions, especially for games with first-person camera modes. (You’ll be able to make custom weapons for third-person games, too.)

Epic says it has paid out $479 million to creators since launching its revised creator payout system for creator-made islands in March 2023.

The company also says there have been more than 134,000 islands published with Unreal Editor for Fortnite, which also launched last March.

Epic just announced that creators can make experiences with first-person camera modes.

110 million monthly active, he says.

That’s according to Google’s head of Android security, David Kleidermacher, who is publicly pushing back on the claims made by Epic Games in its new lawsuit against Google and Samsung.

Earlier, Samsung said it plans to “vigorously contest Epic Game’s baseless claims.”

Stardew Valley creator Eric Barone is open to it. Per a statement given to IGN:

One time we were playing and someone said ‘what if there was a Pam skin in Fortnite?’ And it kind of became a meme for us, like we were imagining us all playing as a squad with identical Pam skins. It was just a silly fun idea.

Then someone asked me if I would collab with Fortnite and I mentioned the Pam thing. There’s nothing official in the works or anything like that, but yea we would find it amusing and fun if we were able to play as Pam (or any other Stardew character, really) someday.

Epic Games spokesperson Alex Fong declined to comment.

Update: Epic declined to comment.

Previously, the shop was only accessible within Fortnite itself. So if you want to shop for more Fortnite dances while you’re away from where you usually play the game — or the adorable new Grogu backbling — you can.