I think it’s fair to say that this weekend all eyes were focused on the Super Bowl and the treasures that appeared within. but something else quite impressive happened this weekend: an event which millions reportedly tuned in for. Masked EDM artist Marshmello took to the Fortnite and its servers this weekend to perform a 10-minute concert with original music. …

Fortnite Battle Royale! Season 7! Week 9! Exclamation marks! Epic Games still has a winner on their hands as their sandbox last man standing game shows no signs of slowing down yet, thanks to regular events and challenges that adds a little something extra to the fanbase. One of this week’s big challenges for the evolving Battle Pass? Balloons!

If you thought that Fortnite could not embody further shortcomings of gaming and humanity in general, then I’m afraid you are wrong. It turns out it’s a useful tool for money laundering. According to an investigation by The Independent, The battle royale title has become a popular and profitable method for criminals to launder stolen money. An act made possible …

We want to be bold, we want to be brave and we want to throw our own hats into the ring with a few ideas of our own, that will see the gaming industry undergo some radical change this year. Are we even remotely psychic? Not a chance, but we’re feeling pretty confident that none of these predictions will come back to bite us in the ass. None of them.

This year, we wanted to find those ongoing games that always had something up their sleeves for the fans who kept coming back, the games that refuse to bask in previous triumphs and always offer something new to coincide with the change in seasons and fan attitudes. We think we found a couple of great nominees, as well as one heck of a winner.

We saw the glory of a war god reborn, we felt the joy of navigating through New York City while spinning webs and we faced stories of a personal nature on a scale that may have been more indie in design but was truly epic in scope. How do you even begin to sum up 2018? How do you condense a year’s worth of gaming into any single rewards category? Well the Game Awards 2018 certainly did just that, with results that probably weren’t surprising.

As far as game output goes, Epic Games is all about Fortnite Battle Royale. And it makes sense. Epic struck gold with their free-to-play game, but it’s seen their other games take a back seat. Paragon was cancelled, while Fortnite’s Save the World is hardly given any love. For many older fans, the one Epic Games title they’re waiting for information on is the upcoming Unreal Tournament.

When news of Fortnite opening the doors of cross-console play hit, Epic promised that the account restrictions instituted by Sony would be lifted, and also that players would be able to merge their accounts if they had multiple ones. While the restrictions are gone, players are still not able to merge accounts. The feature was promised for some vague date in November.