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Fortnite: Battle Royale is getting a new shooting model and special modes
Which is your favourite flavour of Battle Royale? On the one hand, a round of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds offers a deep, tense and immersive experience. On the other hand, Fortnite: Battle Royale...
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Fortnite developers impose $5000 injunction on ‘cheater’
Epic Games, the creators of free-to-play zombie craft-em-up Fortnite, have settled a legal case against an alleged cheater. It’s one of the two cases we’ve previously mentioned, and involves a player...
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Fortnite Battle Royale’s temporary 50 vs. 50 mode is live
If you reckon Fortnite Battle Royale’s squads are too small and don’t provide enough meat shields to cower behind, then have I got some good news for you. From now until December 17, you’ll be able to...
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Fortnite Battle Royale’s new mode needs to be a fixture
There were 30 of us left, down from the 50 we had at the start of Fortnite Battle Royale’s 50 vs. 50 mode. Almost all of us had managed to home in on the new safe zone before the circle closed in. We...
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Podcast: The worst games of the year
We’ve told you about the most overlooked games and what has us excited for next year, but we haven’t had a good grump yet on the RPS podcast, the Electronic Wireless Show. So this week the team...
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Epic to shut down struggling MOBA Paragon in April
I’d always gotten the impression that Paragon – Epic’s hybrid third-person shooter/MOBA hybrid – was maintaining a decently sized playerbase, even if it wasn’t keeping up with the likes of Smite, so...
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Fortnite Battle Royale’s latest event mode is all snipers and revolvers
The latest limited-run event mode in Fortnite Battle Royale is less dramatic than the 50v50 mode that Fraser Brown enjoyed so much, but it does offer a slight change of pace. ‘Sniper Shootout’ is its...
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Fortnite devs address server issues, discuss new modes
Deceptively cutesy battle royale game, Fortnite, just got its fourth ‘state of development’ announcement, courtesy of the Epic Games website. The post explains where the team’s continued efforts at...
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Fortnite update adds new grenade type, lunar new year clobber
After a bit of a delay, Fortnite’s Save the World mode (that’s the original, non-Battle Royale one) has finally received its promised Valentine’s Day update. The patch adds a few love-themed quests,...
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Fortnite’s third season launches with a major patch, rocketmen (and women)...
The Kaiju-scale conflict between multiplayer behemoths Plunkbat and Epic’s Fortnite escalates just that little bit further, as Fortnite (and its free-to-play Battle Royale spinoff) begins its third...
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We were promised jetpacks: Fortnite Battle Royale adds new rifle instead
“When I was a kid we were told we’d have jetpacks,” says a panel show comedian whose name escapes you, “and yet I still have to walk to work like a caveman?” The host, a better comedian, nods politely...
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Fortnite Battle Royale’s 20v20v20v20v20 mode is live
I should probably give Fortnite another chance. When I took a look at it last year, it played like a less tense version of Player Unknown’s Battlegrounds – but it’s increasingly embracing a wackiness...
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Fortnite Battle Royale tossing remote explosives around
Remote explosives are always video game weapons I wish I were devious or patient enough to use properly. I’m like a child who can’t help but ruin a surprise birthday party by shouting “SURPRISE” the...
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Fortnite’s replay editor turns glory-hounds into directors
I must admit that Fortnite – or Battle Royale shooters in general – are not my scene, but I’ve always been able to appreciate a good replay editor. It’s one thing to play back a match for highlights,...
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Fortnite Battle Royale adds guided missile launcher
Epic Games today add to Fortnite Battle Royale a weapon I associate with the studio more than any other: a guided missile launcher. Find one of these and you’ll be flying missiles around through a...
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Capitalism comes to Fortnite with new vending machines
Got a mountain of resources stocked up, but nothing to do with them? Now you can just buy firepower direct as part of Fortnite‘s v3.4 content update. Vending machines have popped up across the Battle...
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Putting forts back into Fortnite
Despite being someone who takes a whole day just to put up a shelf, I’m more of a builder than a fighter. That’s a problem in Fortnite Battle Royale, where forts don’t get much of a look in. The...
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Fortnite Battle Royale revives 50v50, deploys Port-a-Fort
Wednesday is update day for Fortnite Battle Royale, and this week’s sees the welcome return of the 50v50 event mode that Fraser Brown enjoyed so much the first time. The update also adds the new...
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Podcast: Being a critic makes games better (and worse)
Oh no. Somebody sound the “journalists discussing journalism” klaxon. Rattle it as loudly and furiously as possible, because the RPS podcast, the Electronic Wireless Show, is talking about how being a...
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Fortnite Battle Royale’s comet hits, starting season 4
The ominous comet which grew larger in the skies over Fortnite Battle Royale across many weeks has finally struck, reshaping parts of the map and kicking off the start of Season 4. Dusty Depot has...
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