It’s about that time for a Fortnite update and v8.30 is giving the Battle Royale mode some new life — literally. Epic Games is seemingly taking a cue from competitors in the battle royale genre and offering a new mechanic for reviving eliminated teammates. Those that are knee deep in the Creative mode, shaping out their ideas and bringing them to life, will be happy to learn that the new Multiselect tool is going to make their creative endeavors easier to manage.
All of the major points of interest in Fortnite Battle Royale now have a Reboot Van, adding a new layer to the team player-versus-player experience. When your squadmates are eliminated, they’ll drop a Reboot Card. The goal is to grab it before the 90 seconds is up and deliver it to the van so you can get your crew back into the fight. It takes 0.5 seconds to pick up the Reboot Card and 10 seconds to use the Reboot Van itself, so be wary of your surroundings.
Once used, players return with 100 health, one common pistol with 36 rounds of ammo, and 100 wood. The Reboot Van will also be on a 120-second cooldown after use. The impact of such a mechanic has been positive for Respawn Entertainment’s Apex Legends, extending the playtime and keeping squad mates engaged even if they happen to be eliminated. Fortnite should see similar results.
Fortnite Creative is getting some updates in v8.30 that will ease the creation process and add some flair. First off, Epic Games has added the Multiselect tool. This new tool allows players to grab multiple items at once, making it a whole lot easier to copy assets and place them around your creation and simplifying the creative process all around.
There’s a new option that gives players an additional style to implement throughout their creations and another that opens up the type of games that can be created. Fortnite v8.30 adds the Military Base Theme to Creative, opening up the door for military-style developments. The Capture Area device allows players to deposit an object into it in order to score points and aims to add capture the flag-style games.
The new Buccaneer’s Bounty event rotates a new limited-time mode every day from April 10 to April 15. The spawn rate of Treasure Maps is increased throughout the event and there are various free challenges that players can complete to earn in-game rewards.
One of the limited-time modes is the new Fly Explosives, a Fortnite Battle Royale focused on using only explosive weapons and the rapidly spawning jetpacks. The jetpacks are only available in this limited-time mode.
There are a ton of bug fixes being deployed in Fortnite v8.30. Xbox One players specifically will benefit from a fix that squashes the issues that caused some texture streaming related hiccups.
If you were worried that players were hacking the game when you witnessed sniper rifle animations play out twice when firing in Battle Royale, that’s a bug that has been knocked out in this update.
The bug that caused the storm not to affect players in Creative and Playground has been knocked out, along with one that teleported players to the wrong location at the end of a game. Desync issues for Deliver the Bomb missions in Fortnite Save The World have been eliminated and over performance in the mode has been tuned up in a few ways.
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.