Fortnite’s Season 6 landed yesterday, bringing with it more than a hundred new cosmetic items to unlock, Pets, changes to locations, areas to discover, Halloween stuff and more. It also introduced some unintended boob physics, eliciting giggles from the horde of 12-year-old boys I imagine spend every waking hour playing Fortnite.
Yesterday, news broke that Sony had finally come to its senses regarding cross-platform play. Starting yesterday, Fortnite players from across the available collection of supported platforms could play together – just the way it should be. Now, Fortnite is getting account merging.
Epic Games decided to skip Google’s Play Store for the release of Fortnite on Android. They did this primarily to avoid giving google a 30% cut of profits just for using their store. Many people wondered if this would be a security risk, given that the installer doesn’t go through the Google’s security checks. It turns out these fears weren’t unfounded.
A brand new patch for Fortnite Battle Royale dropped yesterday, adding two new limited time modes, a new heavy sniper rifle and a few more changes and additions. Unfortunately, the patch seems to have also added an unintended addition: crashes.
Epic made the decision to drop Google’s Play store for the impending distribution of Fortnite on Android devices. Of course there are fake ads for it already. Of course there are.
Battle Royale du jour Fortnite has yet to launch on Android devices, with many rumours suggesting that when it does, it’ll be exclusive to Samsung phones for a while. New rumours even suggest that the version that’ll launch will even use Samsung’s own In-App Purchase SDK. Other rumours said the game would bypass Google’s Play Store.
The immeasurably popular Battle Royale shooter that’s made Epic Games billions of Dollars has yet to launch on Android. It’s been on Apple devices since the middle of March this year, but has yet to make the jump to the other big mobile platform. It could be coming soon - but may be a timed exclusive for the Samsung Galaxy Note 9
Fortnite is unfathomably successful. The still young Battle Royale game has completely usurped PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds in both mind and market share – earning Epic games respect and a heck of a lot of money. Despite the game being free, Epic is raking in monumental amounts of cash from the microtransactions within the cartoon shooter.
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