Items tagged with Epic Games
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Tim Sweezy - Mon, Dec 05, 2022
A new chapter of Fortnite is upon us, and with it comes new Exotic and Mythic items. Be ahead of the pack, and know where to find these alluring and powerful weapons the next time you drop (be sure to thank the bus driver).
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Lane Babuder - Sun, Dec 04, 2022
Chapter 4 Season 1 for Epic Game's mega-popular Battle Royale hit s Fortnite is scheduled to launch today.
There are some very interesting and intriguing updates in this latest chapter. We'll start with what is arguably the biggest...
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Lane Babuder - Thu, Nov 17, 2022
In 2009, Epic Games released what was known as the Unreal Development Kit which was a free version of Unreal Engine 3. Following that up Epic later released Unreal Engine 4, first as a subscription model, but later available for free...
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Lane Babuder - Thu, Oct 27, 2022
In March of this year, CD Projekt Red, the developer behind The Witcher and Cyberpunk 2077 announced a "new saga" in The Witcher series. Along with this announcement was a blog post that they were going to be eliminating their home-grown...
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Tim Sweezy - Fri, Oct 21, 2022
Epic Games has joined forces with DC Comics in order to bring Dwayne "The Rock" Johnson back to Fortnite as Black Adam. The collaboration is part of Fortnite's Chapter 3 Season 4 campaign, and is available now via the in-game...
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Tim Sweezy - Mon, Aug 22, 2022
A new leak seems to give credence to the rumor of a Fortnite and Destiny crossover. A recent Twitter post shows three Fortnite inspired armor sets that are said to be coming to Destiny 2.
Epic has made a large part of its Fortnite money...
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Zak Killian - Thu, Jul 07, 2022
Epic Games' Unreal Engine has been evolving ever since its first appearance as the engine powering its namesake, the original Unreal, in 1998. The second iteration wowed us with its wide-open landscapes, the third version came in with...
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Paul Lilly - Thu, May 05, 2022
Microsoft is teaming up with Epic Games to make Fortnite available to play for free through its Xbox Cloud Gaming service. In doing so, Fortnite essentially makes an epic return to iOS and Android devices after being banished from Apple's...
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Tim Sweezy - Mon, Apr 18, 2022
Fortnite Zero Build is bringing back old players and enticing new ones to give it a try. The popular battle royale game has provided an option for those who struggled with the game's building mechanics with a Zero Build mode.
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Paul Lilly - Mon, Apr 11, 2022
Epic Games has made it be known it is building its own version of the metaverse and that's all it took for Sony and Lego's parent company Kirkbi to reenact the "Shut up and take my money!" meme. Sony and Kirkbi participated in a $2 billion...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Apr 08, 2022
Do you know what your kids are playing these days? There's it a good chance it's either Minecraft or Roblox, or both. They're each immensely popular (hence why Roblox's CEO is due for a $233 million payday), and they're going to get some...
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Lane Babuder - Thu, Apr 07, 2022
In February of this year, Russia invaded the nation of Ukraine. Unfortunately, the actions of Russia displaced many people from their homes, creating refugees, homeless, many injuries, missing people, and, sadly, the loss of life. These...
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Zak Killian - Wed, Apr 06, 2022
This author might be giving away his age a bit, but remember that Aerosmith music video where a teen-aged Jason London creates a VR scenario in which he's riding a motorcycle based on a toy that he scans into a computer using a camera?...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Apr 05, 2022
The Unreal Engine has come an incredibly long way since it debuted as the graphics engine powering Epic Games' (then still known as Epic Megagames) first FPS title. Way back in 1998, Unreal wowed PC gamers with reflective surfaces...
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Lane Babuder - Mon, Mar 21, 2022
Ever since its early access crowdfunding, Fortnite was created with some sort of base-building functionality in mind. Well, as of the March 20, 2022 patch, that functionality is no more! At least until the next one anyway.
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Brittany Goetting - Thu, Mar 03, 2022
What happens when you combine a major video game developer and publisher with an indie music platform? We do not know yet, but we are about to find out. It was recently announced that Epic Games is acquiring Bandcamp.
Bandcamp is an...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Feb 15, 2022
Have you played Splatoon or Splatoon 2? Those games have nothing to do with Fortnite; don't get excited for an Inkling skin (as cute as that would be). However, those games are widely lauded for their excellent integration of gyro aiming...
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Zak Killian - Tue, Feb 08, 2022
Love it or hate it, Fortnite is still one of the most-played games on the internet. Like most living game titles that hang around a few years, it's expanded considerably beyond the bare-bones battle royale experience that catapulted the...
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Lane Babuder - Tue, Jan 18, 2022
Epic's megalithic money printing monster, Fortnite, received a huge update today for its ever-increasing in popularity "Creative" mode. This is the first major update to Fortnite for the year 2022, and boy is it a doozy!
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Paul Lilly - Thu, Jan 13, 2022
Fortnite is finally coming back to iPhone and iPad devices, though not because Epic Games and Apple ended their legal dispute and came to a mutual resolution. We're still waiting to see how that situation ultimately plays out (and we be...
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Brittany Goetting - Thu, Jan 06, 2022
The Fortnite servers were recently down during their major holiday event. This downtime prevented players from earning extra XP and acquiring one of the Fortnite holiday gifts. Epic Games will be making it up to Fortnite players with the...
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Paul Lilly - Fri, Dec 31, 2021
Today marks the launch of Cobra Kai season 4 on Netflix, and right on cue Epic Games has updated Fortnite with a special crossover event. You can't sweep the leg (a dirty move anyway), but there is a new Mr. Miyagi crane kick emote...
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