Fortnite
2017 online video game
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| March 2025 | An update to the Fortnite item shop limited the number of purchasable songs and changed the frequency of new song additions, with the daily free song selection increased to over 40. |
| February 2025 | After saving Jade, Daigo becomes obsessed with finding the Zero Point shard and partners with Kane to craft a new mask to breach the Spirit Realm. |
| February 2025 | Midas allies with Jones and Hope to stop Daigo, anticipating his potential betrayal of Kane. |
| February 2025 | Jade becomes trapped in the demons' Spirit Realm due to a curse worsened by a mask created by her brother Daigo. |
| February 2025 | Outlaws unite behind Midas to rob Fletcher Kane of his gold. |
| February 2025 | Chapter 6 Season 2 ('Lawless') begins, characterized by a crime and heist theme. Excess gold leeches into the Island's landscape, triggering a gold rush. |
| February 2025 | Wolf baron Fletcher Kane rises to power, imposing a 50% tax on all gold transactions and causing outlaws to unite against him. |
| January 2025 | Local multiplayer support was added for PlayStation and Xbox console versions |
| January 2025 | Daigo defeats the demon leader Shogun X in a duel, leaving behind a pool of gold that would later cause chaos on the Island. |
| 2024 | Devourer of Worlds interactive event attracted 15.3 million in-game players and 3.4 million stream viewers, becoming the single largest interactive event in Fortnite history. |
| 2024 | Daigo defeats the demon leader Shogun X in a duel using the magical blades, creating a pool of gold that Jade warns will cause chaos on the Island. |
| 2024 | Epic released the first person camera device after an experimental phase, expanding gameplay camera capabilities in Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN). |
| 2024 | Marshmello Fortnite Extended Set ranks #20 on the US Top Dance/Electronic Albums Billboard chart. |
| December 2024 | 'Ballistic' mode was introduced alongside Chapter 6, offering a first-person 5v5 team-based gameplay with attackers and defenders. |
| December 2024 | 'Fortnite OG' mode was launched alongside Chapter 6, featuring the original Chapter 1 island map with rotating seasonal iterations. |
| December 2024 | Chapter 6 Season 1 ('HUNTERS') begins with a Japanese folklore theme. The artifact's impact reawakens the Island's dormant magic, activating portals that allow demons to invade. |
| December 2024 | Hope joins forces with Island natives Kendo and Jade to fight demons while searching for the artifact. |
| December 2024 | Godzilla temporarily becomes a playable character, with other players having to fight against him. |
| December 2024 | Jade becomes trapped in the demons' Spirit Realm due to a curse worsened by a mask made by her brother Daigo. |
| December 2024 | Kendo forges magical blades using artifact fragments and gives them to the Night Rose demon, who then gives them to Daigo. |
| November 2024 | Remix Finale event at the end of Chapter 5 brought more than 14 million concurrent in-game viewers and 3 million additional live stream viewers. |
| November 2024 | Chapter 2 Remix mini-season occurs, featuring Snoop Dogg, Eminem, and Ice Spice. A concert is held in Times Square, and Hope reveals she is leaving to investigate her connection to Pandora's box. The Loopers are transported to a Japan-inspired Island. |
| August 2024 | Karol G performed in the 'Karol G: MSB Fortnite' UEFN experience to promote her album and mixtape. |
| August 2024 | Chapter 5 Season 4 begins with a Doctor Doom theme. The Wanderer is revealed to be Doom, who defeats Magneto and Galactus. Jones becomes Captain America, and Loopers battle to entrap Doom in another reality. |
| August 11 2024 | XSET wins the Esports World Cup: Featuring Fortnite tournament, defeating Exceed in the Final, in a tournament not sponsored by Epic Games and using a modified ESL Featuring Fortnite game mode. |
| August 9 2024 | Group stage of the Fortnite tournament at the 2024 Esports World Cup continues, concluding the group stage matches across all groups. |
| August 8 2024 | The Fortnite tournament at the 2024 Esports World Cup begins in Riyadh, Saudi Arabia, with sixteen teams participating - six from DreamHack Dallas LAN qualifiers and ten from online qualifiers. |
| August 6 2024 | UEFN launched support for publishing assets using Fall Guys resources, further enhancing user-generated content capabilities. |
| July 23 2024 | Assets from Mediatonic's Fall Guys were integrated into UEFN, providing creators with new creative resources. |
| June 2024 | 'Fortnite Reload' was introduced, featuring a smaller map with 40 players, limited weapons, and automatic respawn mechanics. |
| June 2024 | Green Day's 'Holiday' song was temporarily available for free through in-game challenges |
| June 2024 | Battle Stage was added to the game, along with Metallica content for the fourth season of Festival. |
| June 22 2024 | Metallica performed their virtual concert 'Fuel. Fire. Fury.' as a UEFN experience, with additional performances on June 23 and an encore from August 2-5. |
| May 2024 | Chapter 5 Season 3 begins with a post-apocalyptic theme. A sandstorm creates a wasteland biome, and the Wanderer betrays Megalo Don by sabotaging his pipeline and taking Pandora's box's powers. |
| April 2024 | Coachella music festival collaboration added skins and instruments to Fortnite Festival |
| April 11 2024 | ESL announced ESL Featuring Fortnite, a new 4-on-4 team shooter game developed by 404 Creative using Unreal Editor for Fortnite. ESL also announced that esports organizations Dignitas, Team Heretics, Karmine Corp, ZETA DIVISION, and later LOUD would field teams for the tournaments and qualifiers. |
| March 2024 | Chapter 5 Season 2 begins, featuring a Greek mythology theme. Zeus attacks and defeats the Society, and Loopers are enlisted to help defeat Zeus through recruiting Aphrodite, Artemis, and Medusa. |
| March 20 2024 | UEFN added Lego assets and Metahuman support, expanding the creative capabilities for content creators. |
| March 11 2024 | Fortnite was officially announced as one of the games for the 2024 Esports World Cup. Epic Games chose not to directly associate with the tournament, with the event to be known as 'Esports World Cup: Featuring Fortnite'. |
| 2023 | Epic Games released Unreal Editor for Fortnite (UEFN), a specialized version of Unreal Engine tailored for creating and editing user-generated content within Fortnite. |
| 2023 | Marshmello Fortnite Extended Set ranks #16 on the US Top Dance/Electronic Albums Billboard chart. |
| December 2023 | Chapter 5 Season 1 begins, introducing a new timeline where Jones travels to a new reality after the Big Bang. Jones and Hope lead The Underground faction, battling The Society who have taken Peely hostage. |
| December 7 2023 | Official release of Lego Fortnite for most platforms supported by the base game, reaching over 2.4 million concurrent users and becoming the most popular game mode. |
| November 2023 | The Ninth Circuit Court overruled a previous dismissal of choreographer Kyle Hanagami's lawsuit, arguing that while individual dance poses cannot be copyrighted, full choreography potentially could be, allowing the case against Epic to continue. |
| November 20 2023 | Fortnite removed the recently implemented age restriction system following player backlash. |
| November 16 2023 | Fortnite introduced an age restriction system prohibiting certain character skins in user-created experiences. |
| August 2023 | The Fortnite Holocaust Museum, 'Voices of the Forgotten', was made available in Fortnite Creative, designed by Luc Bernard and approved by Epic Games as a virtual museum dedicated to Holocaust remembrance. |
| May 2023 | A 'Ranked' mode was added for both standard and Zero Build game modes, supporting solo, duos, trios, and squads gameplay. |
| February 23 2023 | Official Fortnite Creative account first publicly addressed intellectual property infringement issues in Discover rows, acknowledging the widespread use of unauthorized content in user-generated experiences. |
| 2022 | Marshmello Fortnite Extended Set ranks #8 on the US Top Dance/Electronic Albums Billboard chart. |
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