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Fortnite – Epic Announces Victory Royale That Pits Five Teams of Twenty Against One Another

Epic Games has announced that the next limited time event called Victory Royale. The new Battle Royale game mode pits five teams of twenty hitting the Battle Bus map at the same time. It’s a nice expansion to the more “traditional” 4-player Squad mechanic and, at the same time, slightly smaller than the 50v50 event that players took part in late last year. Victory Royale is expected to launch on Thursday, March 8th

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Fortnite – Epic Announces a Twitch Prime Pack with a Cool Outfit, Heroes & a Glider

Epic has announced that Twitch Prime members can link their accounts to Fortnite and score some pretty sweet loot for the effort. The Havoc Outfit, Back Bling, Commander Outfit and Slipstream Glider will be provided for Battle Royale players, while Save the World players will score a pair of new heroes, Havoc and Sub Commando Jonesy. Everyone will also receive four special Twitch chat emotes too.

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Fortnite – 12-Year-Old YouTuber ‘Swatted’ After Spike in Channel Followers

A 12-year-old Fortnite YouTube streamer has been the victim of a recent “swatting” event after his channel followers spiked in a very short period of time. According to PCGameN, the boy, “Varady”, was playing a match with Cizzorz, another YTer with over 800k subscribers. Cizzorz sent his fans to Varady’s channel which raised the latter’s numbers from about 400 followers to over 85k. Apparently this didn’t sit well with some folks who called local police to initiate a “swatting”.

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Fortnite – Season 3 Battle Pass Revealed – Take Off for Space

Epic Games has revealed the theme of its next Battle Pass. When it debuts, players will be taking off for space, not literally, but to earn a wicked space-themed outfit. Battle Pass is, according to Epic, “a way to get exclusive loot by playing Fortnite”. It is a pass that players can purchase and as players work through the content, new in-game rewards are unlocked including the Mission Specialist Outfit. The more a player heads into Fortnite to play, the more rewards are unlocked.

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Fortnite – 3.4M Players Last Sunday Broke the Servers & What Epic’s Doing About It

The Fortnite site has a developer blog post that both reveals HUGE news in player count and details at length the impact those numbers had on servers last Sunday. The Battle Royale portion of the game score big numbers last Sunday with over 3.4 million concurrent players. However, big numbers came with a drawback in that the servers glitched hard — so hard, in fact, that Epic is looking for network engineers at any one of its worldwide locations.

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Fortnite – Latest Limited Time Event Lets You Show Off Your Long Game

The latest Fortnite Battle Royale limited time event has landed in the game, this time allowing players to show off long range skills. Called Sniper Shootout, the game mode is available from now through February 2nd. During the event, players can only use sniper rifles or revolvers, though all of the normal consumables are available (minus grenades).

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Fortnite – Latest Update Brings Something for Everyone

Fortnite players in both iterations of the game will have some nifty new things to do after today’s update goes live. For Battle Royale players, the new Chug Jug is coming on board. It allows players to restore full health and shields, though they’ll have to remain unmoving for 15 seconds — an eternity in PvP-based games! For PvE players, the Mutant Storms event will kick off that is packed with mini-bosses, new quests, seasonal currency to spend on special items and more.