We were all impressed when PUBG soared to the top of Steam's concurrent player charts with 3.2 million players all online at once. However, it looks like Epic's Fortnite Battle Royale is now giving it some serious competition. Over the weekend, Fortnite managed to hit 3.4 million peak concurrent players, …
Read More »Epic Games will be shutting down Paragon in April
Over the last several years, we have seen many MOBA competitors come and go. While usually it is the sheer popularity of League of Legends, Dota 2 or Smite causing developers to throw in the towel, for Epic Games things are a bit different. Paragon has indeed struggled to hit …
Read More »Epic Games overhauls Fortnite Battle Royale’s map and removes friendly fire
Straight after hitting the 40-million-player milestone, Fortnite Battle Royale is getting its biggest update yet including big changes to its current map. Landing tomorrow, January 18th, players will be able to explore brand new areas, as well as test its new dynamic with friendly fire switched off. It might not …
Read More »Epic Games celebrates 40 million Fortnite players, with 2 million concurrent
Epic Games’ Fortnite Battle Royale has started the year off with a bang, topping over 40 million players, 10 million of which have joined within just over one month. That’s not all, as the super-massive hit title has also reached a second milestone of 2 million concurrent users. Fortnite Battle …
Read More »Epic settles with one Fortnite cheater, continues to sue the other
Epic Games found itself in a tough position last week, after news emerged that the studio was suing a 14 year-old for cheating in Fortnite. At the time, the boy's mother called out Epic's actions in a letter sent to the judge in charge of the case, asking that it …
Read More »Epic’s lawsuit against Fortnite cheaters just got more complicated
Back in October, we learned that Epic Games had filed a lawsuit against two specific Fortnite cheaters. This is something we have seen done before, with similar cases coming from the likes of Riot Games and Blizzard. However, this week some more details about the case came to light, including …
Read More »PUBG and Fortnite Battle Royale both surpass 20 million players
Over the last couple of months, competition in the Battle Royale space has been heating up. PUBG is continuing to do incredibly well at a very fast pace, but it seems that Epic Games has also managed to carve out a piece of the market with its own game, Fortnite. …
Read More »Epic details future Fortnite performance improvements as game passes 800K concurrent players
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. …
Read More »Epic Games is suing Fortnite cheaters for copyright infringement
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 …
Read More »Fortnite passes 7 million players thanks to Battle Royale mode
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 …
Read More »Fortnite’s Battle Royale mode had one million players at launch
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 …
Read More »PUBG dev talks more about the studio’s issue with Epic Games and Fortnite
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 …
Read More »The folks behind PUBG claim Fortnite’s Battle Royale mode is a ‘carbon copy’
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 …
Read More »Epic says it turned on Xbox and PS4 cross-play by mistake
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 …
Read More »Fortnite devs may have quietly switched on cross-platform play for PS4 and Xbox One
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 …
Read More »Epic Game’s Fortnite Alpha begins today
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 …
Read More »Epic details more Fortnite enemies
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 …
Read More »Fortnite has a multiplayer campaign map with procedural generation
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 …
Read More »Not a plant in sight with Fortnite ‘monsters’
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 …
Read More »Fortnite’s Commando mirrors Evolve’s Assault class
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 …
Read More »Epic teases more Fortnite, opens Alpha signups
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 …
Read More »Epic launches Fortnite teaser site
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 …
Read More »Here’s some other Unreal Engine 4.0 Games
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 – …
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