Whether its Fortnite, PlayerUnkown’s Battlegrounds, or another battle royale game, it can be hard to come out as the winner. Whether players are good at hiding or fighting, chances are they won’t win every match. With teams, there’s a much bigger chance for a victory.
Announced during the Game Awards 2017, Epic Games is bringing a limited time 50 vs. 50 mode to Fortnite Battle Royale. This new game mode takes the popular last person standing mode and divides everyone up into two teams.
Fortnite first added the popular battle royale mode back in September. In this mode, players begin on a floating battle bus. Equipped with a glider and a pickax, players must fend for themselves in order to win. Throughout the giant map, there are plenty of weapons to use, traps to set, and environments to destroy. While not the first implementation of the mode, PlayerUnkown’s Battlegrounds helped skyrocket this style of game into popularity. Where Fortnite really differs from other titles is with its base-building mechanics. Rather than hiding, players can build some cover to keep them safe.
Aside from the new game mode, Epic Games has also revealed that Fortnite has grown to more than 30 million players since the game’s launch in July. Just over the weekend, the game reached another new milestone of 1.3 million online users at the same time.
When playing online multiplayer, its important to remember that cheating is frowned upon. Nobody likes playing with cheaters. They create an unfair advantage that isn’t possible through regular play. Epic Games is not pulling any punches when it comes to banning players either. Thousands of players have already been booted for the act and Epic has no plans to stop.
Fortnite Battle Royale is available now for free on PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC, and Mac. Players who are interested in the limited time 50 vs. 50 mode have until Sunday, December 17, to take part. Other unique game modes and content are planned for the future. For those who are more interested in the original, cooperative-focused campaign, Fortnite is also available as an early-access game in a variety of packages starting at $40 across all platforms.
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.”
It’s turning into a pretty good time to be a Monster Hunter fan who plays on a phone. Capcom has confirmed that Monster Hunter Outlanders will launch on Android and iOS on October 29, giving the series a new mobile-first game just as Monster Hunter Rise is also preparing to make the jump to smartphones through Netflix.
Outlanders is being developed by Tencent subsidiary TiMi Studio Group under license and supervision from Capcom. Unlike Rise, which appears to be the full console and PC game adapted for mobile, Outlanders is a free-to-play survival hunting game made specifically for phones.