Nintendo revealed during its press conference prior to the E3 gaming convention that you can download Fortnite for free on the Nintendo Switch, immediately. The only other information provided during this Fortnite-themed portion of Nintendo’s show was provided through a new trailer revealing how you can drop into the game anywhere you want thanks to the portability of the Nintendo Switch.
We presume this “free” version of Fortnite is the Battle Royale edition served up on all the other platforms without cost. To get the Standard edition packed with a campaign, you’ll be required to provide cash – around $40 for the Standard version, depending on the platform, and $10 more for the Deluxe edition. Of course, most people play for the battle royale mode, not the campaign.
The trailer reveals that local co-op requires more than one Nintendo Switch. At the beginning, you parachute into the scene only to be shot down by other players on the field. Other examples shown during the clip is a fun session of soccer, pushing friends on shopping carts, spraying graffiti on walls, and more.
Created by Painkiller developer People Can Fly and Gears of War developer Epic Games, Fortnite is a multiplayer sandbox survival game that mixes Left 4 Dead with Minecraft, requiring players to build bases to fend off hordes of zombie-like monsters. The campaign’s goal is to protect what’s remaining of humanity after a worldwide storm wipes out most of the human population and creates the now-hungry monsters chasing the survivors.
In Battle Royale mode, a single battleground hosts up to 100 players as they drop in and kill each other to become the last player standing. During the battle, there are “safe zones” that continue to shrink, and players can gather resources to create fortified bases to stay alive. Weapons and armor must be confiscated from the environment or other players.
Originally, Battle Royale was a multiplayer mode within the premium Fortnite game, but Epic decided to bring this mode to the forefront as a free-to-play aspect of Fortnite given the surging popularity of Playerunknown’s Battlegrounds. With the help of Battle Royale, Fortnite‘s popularity has grown to the point where Epic Games retired its other free-to-play shooter, Paragon.
Given the flexibility of the Nintendo Switch, owners can play Fortnite any way they want, wherever they want (and where there’s an internet connection). You can play the game in the native handheld form, connect a wireless Pro controller, or set the display on a table and play with the motion controllers.
Fortnite is available now for free on the Nintendo Switch.
Imagine tapping a Zelda icon on your iPhone and jumping straight into Hyrule. A new open-source project called nxnative makes that possible by repackaging Switch games you’ve bought into apps for iPhone, iPad, and Mac, with no emulator in the middle.
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The Call of Duty franchise has held a special place in my heart ever since I played my first Black Ops game back in 2010. That game's campaign was something else, with twists and turns that culminated in a mind-blowing finale. We can all admit that compared to those older campaigns, the recent CODs have been lackluster at best, and a complete and utter disappointment at worst. The reboot of Modern Warfare did give me some hope, as the first two installments were actually quite good, but the third game left such a bad taste in my mouth that I wasn’t exactly expecting much from Modern Warfare 4.
After recently finishing the campaign, I can say that this installment is nothing like the recent releases and instead feels closer to the franchise’s roots. For the first time in a long while, the campaign comes across as well-crafted rather than rushed to hit a release date. It arrives three years after MW3, and you can see exactly where all that time went. It seems the studio finally made listening to player feedback a priority.
Epic Games has just announced the 2026 Epic AI MegaJam, which is looking to see how much game development can be squeezed into a very short window. This is running from November 12 through November 15.
Participants can work alone or in teams of up to five people, build in Unreal Engine or Unreal Editor for Fortnite, and bring along “as many AI agents as you want.” Epic explicitly encourages coding agents, AI-generated assets, audio tools, writing tools, and other AI systems. The official event page literally says "Vibe your way to $50k.”