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The Sickest Battle Royale You Probably Aren’t Playing Is All About Martial Arts
30.3.2023
Battle royales are everywhere. From first-person shooters like Warzone to (now-defunct) third-person spellcasters such as Spellbreak, the genre has overtaken the industry. While battle royales may be ubiquitous, there’s one you probably aren’t playing right now that you totally should. It’s called...
A Letter To The Fortnite Weirdos Who Play Past Midnight
29.3.2023
Dear Weirdos Who Dance Emote Past Midnight,Read more
11 Battle Royale Players You'll Always Match With (Or Die To)
29.3.2023
Battle royales and the culture that surround them have collected a litany of archetypes, creating a sort of BR zodiac that can help you understand the machinations of the people you encounter in Warzone, Fortnite, Apex Legends, or PUBG. Maybe you feel like one or more of these stereotypes sorta...
PUBG's Creative Director On The Success Of Battle Royales
28.3.2023
PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds went from a mod for zombie survival game DayZ (itself a mod for milsim ARMA2), to an instantly successful Steam Early Access standalone in 2017. The game was inspired by Japanese action film Battle Royale, in which a collapsing society sends students to kill...
One Of Call of Duty: Warzone 2.0’s Biggest Streamer Is Taking A Break
28.3.2023
Aydan Conrad is one of the biggest competitive Call of Duty streamers with over 3 million followers on Twitch and over a million on YouTube. On March 27, Conrad announced that he intended to take a break from creating content for Warzone 2.0.Read more
Fortnite's Story Is Way Better Than It Gets Credit For
28.3.2023
What makes Fortnite so engaging? Ask players what they love, and there’s a number of things they might mention about the hugely popular battle royale. The gameplay loop is fun, with solid third-person shooter controls and the unique complexity of its building mechanic nicely complicating the simple...
Fortnite’s New Unreal Editor Has Limits On What Fans Can Make, Monetize
27.3.2023
Last week, Epic Games revealed its exciting new Unreal Editor for Fortnite, which gives players incredible freedom to design their own unique experiences within the battle royale. Already, they’ve made everything from chapter one map to recreations of Mario Kart maps and original game ideas. While...
The True Gods Of Fortnite Are The Expert Snipers
27.3.2023
I’m hiding in a small shack on a lonely hill surrounded by a deadly storm of energy that will destroy me in seconds if I touch it. There’s no escaping the situation. Around me, I can hear other players shooting and breaking walls. I know it’s now or never if I want to win this match of Fortnite....
Welcome To Kotaku Royale, Exploring The Genre That's Defining Modern Gaming
27.3.2023
It’s Aries season, Women’s History Month, the start of spring, and Kotaku Royale week. What’s that last one, you ask? Well, we’re spending all week bringing you exclusive interviews with the teams behind your favorite battle royales, pointed opinions about the state of Warzone and the genre...
Fortnite Players Are Already Making Incredible Things With Unreal
23.3.2023
This week, Epic Games revealed Unreal Editor for Fortnite, a toolset that expands on the battle royale’s existing creator resources and could completely revolutionize the game in the process. Players have wasted no time offering glimpses into that potential, using the new tools for everything from...
What The Hell Is Everywhere, That New Creator Game From Ex-GTA Devs?
23.3.2023
Remember Everywhere, that ambitious-yet-vague open-world game spearheaded by former Grand Theft Auto producer Leslie Benzies? It’s OK if you don’t. After all, the project had only the briefest of reveals during last year’s Gamescom Opening Night Live presentation. However, after half a year...
Fortnite’s Unreal Editor Used To Recreate Original Map, And You Can Play It
23.3.2023
Last week, Epic Games announced that it would graft its industry-standard game engine into the most popular battle royale game on earth. Fortnite content creators are using the Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN) to create all sorts of wild shit, including the original Fortnite map as it existed...
We Aren't Ready For What's About To Happen With Fortnite
22.3.2023
It is indisputable that Fortnite is one of the biggest games in the world, its cultural dominance so pronounced that our so-called metaverse future will likely be inside its all-consuming smorgasbord. You can wear Nikes in Fortnite. You can listen to an Ariana Grande concert in Fortnite. What else...
Twitch Bans Popular Streamer’s Cute Emote For ‘Inciting Abuse’
21.3.2023
Fortnite Twitch streamer and hugely popular gaming TikToker Chica seemed to get some surprising news yesterday—Twitch removed one of her emotes, a cartoon chick with big, wet eyes and its tongue sticking out, for “inciting abuse.”Read more
Fortnite musí vracet velké peníze. Podněcoval děti ke zbytečnému utrácení
18.3.2023
Společnost Epic Games musí vrátit utržené miliony dolarů hráčům populárního Fortnitu, které k nákupům ve hře donutila nekalými praktikami. Rozhodla o tom americká Federální obchodní komise
Fortnite Is About To Blow Wide Open Thanks To The Unreal Editor
17.3.2023
Yesterday, Epic Games stunned the entire Fortnite player base with the announcement that an Unreal Editor add-on is coming to the mega-popular battle royale game. Read more
Fortnite Dev Epic Claims Folks Like Crypto Games In Its Store
14.3.2023
Enthusiasm for the blockchain isn’t as spirited as it was before someone kidnapped Robot Chicken co-creator Seth Green’s embarrassing, allegedly non-fungible token, or before the last year of high-profile scams and monumental crashes. But Fortnite developer Epic says people like the crypto-based...
Fornite's Gets Car Chases Cyberpunk 2077 Never Had, Jet Set Radio Grinding
10.3.2023
Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 2 is live, transforming Fortnite’s multiplayer map into a giant cyberpunk block party. The update adds a massive new metropolis, a bunch of new skins, and the ability to grind around skyscrapers during firefights. Plus players can now recreate the car chases they only...
Fortnite Is Adding Cyborgs To The Rocky Universe
28.2.2023
The first Rocky film was released way back in 1976. It was a gritty, well-written, and heartfelt movie about a down-on-his-luck boxer given one last chance to make a name for himself. Decades later, Creed was released as a spin-off for that franchise, and it kept the same gritty tone...
Experts Taught Me How To Score A Boyfriend In World of Warcraft
14.2.2023
Sex in ancient caves, gods that turn the women they desire into frost-white cows—civilization has been making the most uncanny situations horny since the beginning, and in our digital age, we’ve extended that talent to sliding into DMs, Tinder, and video game romance. But while messaging...