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Epic Considering Always Online For Fortnite [Updated]
Update: Epic’s issued a statement clarifying its meaning, noting that – while nothing’s off the table – it hasn’t entered serious talks about how it’ll implement online play at this point. Here’s the...
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Fortnite’s Jessen Talks Minecraft, PC Gaming, UE4
It’s been ages since Epic last took up PC gaming’s banner and affixed some sort of completely bonkers weapon to it. Instead, the Unreal creator has been off duct-taping chainsaws to other platforms...
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Fortnite: PC ‘First And Foremost,’ Launching As Beta
Generally speaking, Epic’s a company that likes to put its best foot forward. When it debuts a new game or engine, everything’s polished to a gloriously gritty sheen – even if a look behind the...
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Epic’s Fortnite Still Exists, Now At Bulletstorm Dev
It has been far, far longer than a fortnight since we last heard even the slightest peep about Epic’s Fortnite. Many fortnights, in fact – enough to bridge the gap between last year’s PAX Prime and...
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Epic: Fortnite Has ‘Evolved,’ UE4 Inspired By Minecraft
Before GDC, Epic’s ubiquitous Unreal Engine was a walled garden. But that all changed when company president Johnny Epic waded into the conference crowd while bellowing, “You get an Unreal Engine and...
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Epic’s Fortnite Goes Free-To-Play, Alpha Sign-Ups Open
As Epic told me during GDC, sugar-cereal-colored buildy blaster Fortnite isn’t fourscore feet under, as a) that’d be total overkill and b) it’s doing just fine. After a lengthy period of radio...
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Video Preview: Epic’s Fortnite Is… Interesting, Early
For the past many years, Epic was known as the One True King of console grimdark. Gears of War was about colossal mountain men with veins running rivulets through their stone hewn necks and...
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Fortnite To Be Online-Only, Will Have Mods… Somehow
Quick recap: once upon a time Epic’s Fortnite was set to be kinda grimdark and more than likely a premium game (i.e. money upfront, party in the back). Over the course of a couple radio silent years...
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How Epic Hopes To Avoid Pay-To-Win With Fortnite
Fortnite is, technically speaking, Epic’s first free-to-play game. The crayola colored smash-and-shoot-and-loot-and-build-er is being designed primarily as a co-op thing, but with persistent MMO-style...
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Zone Of The Defenders: Fortnite
As I was watching the latest Fortnite video to emerge from the artist formerly known as Epic MegaGames, a voice at the back of my brainbox suggested that the developer talkthrough reminded me of...
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Epic Look At Fortnite’s Buildings, Bullets, And Btraps
The Unreal dudes at Epic started showing off a lot more of their build-o-craft-me-shoot-a-zombie ‘em up Fortnite [official site] while my head was turned. They’ve got members of the gang on...
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People Can Fly Flies Again, Still Owns Bulletstorm
Polish studio People Can Fly made well-received OTT shooters Painkiller and Bulletstorm, then they got bought by Epic and became Epic Games Poland, and now suddenly they’re independent and are People...
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Flash Bang Wallop! Nvidia Ansel’s Screenshot Tools
Nvidia have unveiled their next top-end GPU, the GeForce GTX 1080, which they say can draw lots of really nice pictures really fast. Look, I’m sure Jeremy and his Week in Tech will have more to say...
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Fortnite’s Battle Royale goes F2P next week [updated]
Update: Epic have been in touch to clarify that no, Fortnite Battle Royale won’t be standalone. It’ll be free within the Fortnite client while Actual Fortnite will remain paid until it launches in...
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Playerunknown’s Battleground devs address Fortnite Battle Royale comparisons
The makers of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds [official site] today effectively puffed their chest, pointed at Epic Games, and growled “I’m watching you, sunshine.” They’ve issued a statement addressing...
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Fortnite Battle Royale plays second fiddle to Plunkbat
You know the drill. 100 players get dropped from a plane balloon-bus onto an island, where they scavenge for weapons with which to kill each other. A circular wall of death contracts at various...
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Fortnite Battle Royale sparks Unreal Engine improvements, starts banning...
Epic have been busy this week with Fortnite [official site] in both its PvE and Battle Royale forms. Over in Battle Royale (which is free), Epic have added a duo mode and started banning cheaters in...
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Two Fortnite players sued by Epic for making cheats
Epic Games, creators of survival-ish zombie game Fortnite [official site], are suing two players for allegedly making and using cheats for the crafty cartoon game, and for “ruining the game playing...
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Surfing on pumpkin rockets in Fortnite looks amazing
Fortnite Battle Royale players have come up with what might be my favourite mode of transport I’ve ever seen in a video game. Forget about the wingsuit in Far Cry or the grappling hook in Just Cause,...
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Fortnite: Battle Royale’s rocket riding is here to stay
Fortnite: Battle Royale’s latest update adds a new gun, the silenced SMG, some weapon rebalancing, and a plan is being worked on to deal with naughty team killers, but that’s all incredibly boring....
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