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Fortnite Is Currently Filled With Racist AI-Generated Art
30.1.2024
If you boot up Fortnite right now and start digging around through the game’s massive amount of user-created content, you’ll quickly notice a strange pattern: Many user-made maps and modes feature AI-generated artwork of large men, often shirtless, smiling, and holding food. Some of these images...
The Day Before Devs Blame 'Bloggers' For The Game's Failure
24.1.2024
The Day Before is dead and gone, but those behind the studio responsible aren’t quite done complaining yet. Apparently, according to a new statement from developer Fntastic, it’s not the developers’ fault that the disastrous game has bit the dust. The blame lies with the “bloggers” and “content...
Epic Games Admits In Court That Its PC Store Still Isn't Profitable
7.11.2023
On Monday, during the first day of the Epic v. Google legal showdown over app store fees, both companies gave their opening statements and began poking at each other’s witnesses. And during the day, Epic admitted that its digital PC game store still isn’t profitable. Read more
Rocket League Will Ban Item Trading, Nuking Market For Secondhand Skins
10.10.2023
A major shakeup is coming to Rocket League’s player community. The popular car soccer game will turn off the option to trade items starting in Season 13, destroying the vibrant market around buying and selling cosmetics in the process. Fans appear universally shocked, confused, and frustrated...
Epic Games Cutting 870 Jobs, 16 Percent Of Its Workforce
28.9.2023
Epic Games Inc., the company behind global megahit Fortnite, the Epic Games Store, and the wildly popular Unreal Engine, is laying off 16 percent of its current workforce. This report, first coming from Bloomberg’s Jason Schreier, sees almost 900 employees losing their jobs.Read more
Cyberpunk 2077’s Only Getting One Expansion Because Its Old Tech Is Being Retired
30.8.2023
Cyberpunk 2077 developer CD Projekt Red says its upcoming expansion, Phantom Liberty, will serve as the game’s one and only expansion because of its “technological decision” to move from CDPR’s own REDengine technology to Unreal 5.Read more
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...
Veteran FPS Devs Form New Studio To Make Games Inside Fortnite
19.7.2023
Veteran game developers from Bungie, EA, and Kongregate have come together to form a new video game studio, Look North World. And this new studio will be focused on making… Fortnite games? Read more
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...
Nike teases upcoming ‘Airphoria’ NFT sneaker hunt on Fortnite
17.6.2023
In a short promotional video, Nike’s logo for its web3 platform .SWOOSH features alongside the logos for Epic Games’ Unreal Engine and Fortnite game
Looks Like Epic Very Quietly Cancelled An Unreal Tournament Release
6.6.2023
In December 2022—so, only a few months back—Epic decided to close a bunch of servers for old Unreal Tournament games. This was bad news for long-suffering fans, but it was met with one small silver lining: Epic announced plans to re-release Unreal Tournament 3, for free, “no strings attached”.Read...
Nifty News: Pudgy Penguins signs with WME, Bitblox to make Web3 gambling games and more....
6.5.2023
Palm NFT Studio has also launched a new tool via Epic Games’ Unreal Engine that enables creators to make generative “game-ready” 3D assets and art collections
Popular Call of Duty Fortnite Map Gets Hyped By Millions After It’s Pulled
4.4.2023
Kotaku reported on March 23, 2023 that Epic Games had outlined specific do’s and don’ts when it comes to what kinds of maps creators can build and publish using Fortnite’s new Unreal Editor. Essentially, any map from another game (including certain Fortnite maps from previous seasons), isn’t...
Beautiful New Fortnite Map Is Like Spider-Man Meets Star Wars
4.4.2023
Another day, another wild showcase of talent in the new Unreal Editor for Fortnite. This latest one, titled “Cyber Rush,” is by a creator called CooliSushi and combines moody cyberpunk visuals and energetic electronic music with a speedy aerial highway action montage that easily brings to mind...
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...
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...
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...
Unreal Engine Videos Give Us A Glimpse At The Graphics Of The Future
23.3.2023
Epic Games held a little showcase at the Game Developers Conference earlier today, called State of Unreal. Designed as a way to keep everyone who makes games up to date on what’s in store for the industry-dominating Unreal Engine, the highlights are also obviously interesting to anyone who plays...
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...
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