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Fortnite Players Can Now Get A Refund From Historic FTC Settlement
20.9.2023
Good news, everyone: now Fortnite can pay you. After a spat with the FTC wherein Epic Games settled for $245 million dollars, the Federal Trade Commission has launched a webpage for eligible Fortnite players to get some money back. Read more
Classic Nintendo Racer F-Zero Returns As A...Battle Royale
14.9.2023
During today’s Nintendo Direct presentation, the company revealed that the classic high-speed futuristic racer F-Zero will make a return as a...battle royale speedster.Read more
Zack Snyder Mains Mr. Meeseeks In Fortnite
25.8.2023
Sure, Zack Snyder loves making five-hour-long movies. But he’s still a person who needs to relax and take a break from all the work. And apparently, he spent quite a lot of time playing Fortnite as Mr. Meeseeks, saying that he took a “deep dive” into the popular free-to-play online shooter. Read...
Fortnite Has An FFXIV-Style Raid Boss, And It Looks Pretty Wild
14.8.2023
Fortnite isn’t the same battle royale it was when the game first introduced the mode in 2017, having gradually become home to a plethora of pop culture crossovers and empowering editing tools for creators. Now, one of those creators has transformed the mega-popular game into an MMO—like with...
Fortnite’s Only Up! User Map Is Now Way Bigger Than The Original Game
7.7.2023
Only Up! quickly became a smash hit on Steam thanks in large part to its simple premise and its popularity on the streaming site Twitch. But while the excitement around that game has cooled, a clone of the game built in Fortnite has become bigger than the original, making itone of the most popular...
Fortnite Twitch Streamer Hits Max Rank By Just Hiding
20.6.2023
My fellow slackers, bohemians, and those who’ve made a point of getting through difficult challenges in life by exerting the least amount of effort, I bring you a success story. Recently, a streamer has climbed to the top of Fortnite’s competitive ranks by camping in the bushes and hugging...
RIP: All The Battle Royales That Failed, Flopped, And Died
1.4.2023
It’s almost poetic that, in a genre built on many people fighting to stay alive until just a few remain, so many battle royale games have launched, flopped, and died over the last few years. Not every new battle royale can find the same success as Warzone or PUBG. In fact, most will be lucky...
10 Must-See Battle Royale Moments, From Fortnite To Warzone
1.4.2023
No two battle royale matches are alike. Clever, spontaneous tactics springing from the generative collision of varying skill levels, map layout, and randomized items, weapons, and vehicles can lead to theatrical levels of epicness and hilarity—often both at the same time. So it’s only fitting...
Apex Legends, The Fashionable Battle Royale, Uses Streetwear To Stay Fresh
31.3.2023
Overwatch has its One Punch Man skins. Warzone has playable Snoop Dogg. Fortnite has cosmetics for every celeb and IP imaginable, from The Mandalorian to Ariana Grande. But Apex Legends has something none of those other games have: style.Read more
The Evolution Of Games Like Fortnite And Warzone Is Already Here
31.3.2023
Battle royales have managed to pull off an unlikely scenario. The genre has remained relevant for players, streamers, and competitive-level play. And it’s not just one game: The genre currently has multiple, big-budget competitors existing alongside each other with relatively healthy player counts....
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...
The Best Call of Duty Battle Royale Isn’t Warzone
29.3.2023
Six or seven days a week, MinerHoboJo fires up his PlayStation 5 and signs into Twitch or YouTube to stream a five-year-old game—Blackout, the first Call of Duty battle royale. By his own estimation, and community consensus, Miner is the game’s global leader in solo wins and kills. (There are...
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...
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...
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...
Volt Inu Releases Alpha Version of NFT-Focused Battle Royale Game
28.2.2023
Developers expect the game to be available on the game distribution service Steam in the coming weeks
Epic Kills Battle Royale Game Less Than Six Months After Release
1.2.2023
In August 2022, Epic Games—developers of Fortnite, custodians of the Epic Games Store, creators of the Unreal Engine, rich as God—published a melee-based battle royale game called Rumbleverse. It is now January 2023 (February already for me here in Australia), and the game is already being killed...