Fortnite: Battle Royale is a gorgeous game filled with buildings and natural structures to explore, but you’re unlikely to actually spend much time in any one place as you’re getting shot at by 99 other people. That will change with the upcoming “Playground” mode, which will let you relax and build without worrying about that pesky “permanent death” thing.
Available as a limited-time mode, Fortnite‘s Playground sends you into the same map you use for the battle royale mode, but with unlimited respawning, all treasure and ammo crates available, and increased resource generation. You will also be able to play on the map for an extended period of time so you can focus on building interesting structures, and you can face off against up to three other friends with friendly fire turned on if you want to work on a specific strategy.
“This represents our initial step into what a creative mode looks like in Fortnite, said Epic Games in the announcement in May. “Practice, strategize, and enjoy yourself. We can’t wait to see what you do!”
This week, players finally spotted a note on the Playground mode in Fortnite‘s daily message. It should be arriving within the next day or two, and for newer players, it could offer you the perfect opportunity to prepare before facing live competition in Fortnite: Battle Royale. We know all too well how easy it is to get murdered within minutes of landing on the map, particularly if you haven’t messed around with the game’s weapons or building mechanics for a bit.
Though Fortnite remains the biggest battle royale game on the market by a pretty wide margin, expanding into different genres like this could be an effective way to keep players from jumping ship. Hi-Rez’ Realm Royale — previously called Paladins: Battlegrounds — has been gaining steam with its class-based approach to battle royale. PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds continues to do fairly well, also, recently passing 400 million total players and 50 million copies sold. With a whole new audience on Nintendo Switch, however, we don’t see Fortnite losing its crown as the undisputed king of battle royale anytime soon.
Remember when transparent gadgets were the coolest things you could own? Sony is bringing that late '90s aesthetic back with its new PS5 Prism Collection. The gorgeous lineup gives your DualSense controller and PS5 console a glossy, see-through makeover in three eye-catching colors.
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For years, Call of Duty’s campaign mode has used big, scripted set pieces to tell the overarching story amid all the adrenaline-pumping action. The 2023 Modern Warfare 3 tried to shake up the established formula by introducing a handful of short open combat missions, and I genuinely liked the idea, but the game's overall negative reception seeped into how those missions were received.
I feared the next iteration might abandon the idea because of the backlash, but I am glad it didn't. MW4’s “Stranded” mission uses the same approach, but instead of fragmenting it across the campaign, it puts it all in a single large-scale open-world mission.
Acer’s Predator Atlas 8 finally has a US release date and price, several months after the company first showed off the handheld in May. The highlight is the Intel Arc G3 Extreme chip inside, which has been adopted by only a couple of other consoles besides the Atlas 8. This version will go on sale exclusively at Best Buy on November 1 for $1,299.99.
Acer originally said the Atlas 8 would arrive in North America in October, but left pricing open at the time. The launch came amid the ongoing DRAM crunch, which has made memory more expensive across the PC industry and complicated pricing for hardware makers.