Fortnite

It sure looks like Hank Hill is coming to Fortnite. If ever there was a time to add a new king of the hill mode, this is it.

Following another successful live event (this time it involved infiltrating a Death Star), Epic has revealed the next season for Fortnite’s battle royale, which is once again superhero-themed. It includes new locations like a superhero academy and new characters like, well, Superman. Check out all the details here.

It kicks off at 2PM ET tomorrow.

Thanks to a new Fortnite Data API, creators will be able to access data on things like minutes played, peak concurrent player count, and number of unique players for Epic-made experiences and public creator-made ones.

Following Epic Games’s filing asking Judge Yvonne Gonzalez Rogers to order Apple to review its Fortnite app submission, Gonzalez Rogers wants Apple to resolve this on its own or for the Apple official who “is personally responsible for ensuring compliance” to appear at a hearing next Tuesday.

It also pulled the version it sent to Apple last Friday, according to Epic Games CEO Tim Sweeney. Apple’s website says that “on average,” 90 percent of submissions “are reviewed in less than 24 hours,” though the company obviously did not meet that estimate for last week’s Fortnite submission.

Now, we have to wait and see if Apple approves it to return to the US iOS App Store. Epic promised the game would be back sometime this week.

In the lead up to Fortnite returning to the App Store, Epic is trying to entice players with a 20 percent rewards bonus when you use the company’s payment system to make purchases in certain games.

...if you link your Epic Games account to your MyDisney account, according to a blog post. It’s a “first step” ahead of the planned “universe” Disney and Epic are building together that’s tied to Fortnite. You’ll also be able to catch two episodes of Star Wars: Tales of the Underworld in Fortnite starting May 2nd, which is two days before the show debuts on Disney Plus.

Star Wars prequel memes are undefeated.

Fortnite’s next Festival season, which kicks off on April 8th, will feature Sabrina Carpenter, Epic Games announced today.

Starting today you can build your own zombie apocalypse as a number of Walking Dead assets — including buildings, weapons, and walkers — are now available to users in Creative and UEFN. The walkers join assets from TMNT and Lego in the burgeoning creative space. While you can start building today, starting May 16th users can publish their TWD islands via the creator portal.

Baseball star Shohei Ohtani is joining Fortnite on March 17th.

Epic Games is introducing a “one-year matchmaking ban for first-time cheating offenses” in Fortnite, according to a blog post about its anti-cheat updates. However, “a second offense will result in a lifetime ban.”

The first trailer for Fortnite’s new season comes in the form of... a music video for a new character who is also a pickle. It’s plenty goofy, but it does seem to hint at a return to a heist theme, with vaults to break into, underground tunnels to sneak through, and explosives to explode. The season drops on February 21st.

Fortnite’s new crime-themed season drops in a week, and Epic has already revealed the line-up of characters you can expect with the battle pass. They include Sub-Zero from Mortal Kombat and... a rapping pickle.

Epic is teasing the next season of Fortnite, called “Lawless,” and it seems like the game might get a pickle-themed skin... that will drop its own single? Oh boy. The season launches on February 21st.

Some players are “able to log-in and play again on PlayStation platforms, but not all game services may be back online,” according to the Fortnite Status X account.

In its 2024 year-in-review post, Epic also says that “36.5% of total Fortnite playtime” happens in games made by creators, and that playtime stats are “buoyed by meaningful growth in game genres that don’t feature combat.”

In addition to magnetic SSDs that piggyback on your phone, at CES 2025 SanDisk announced new Fortnite-themed storage solutions including a bright yellow Peely Edition portable SSD and USB-A flash drive. They’re both available for preorder now in several capacities and are expected to ship in the next couple of weeks.

As had been teased, the singer was encased in a block of ice, only to be released at 3PM ET this afternoon. During my match, all combat stopped so that everyone could listen to her sing “All I Want For Christmas Is You,” before things went back to normal (and I was immediately killed). Her appearance kicks off the game’s annual holiday event — details are right here.