Enlarge / The Epic Games Store logo. reader comments 154 with 95 posters participating Share this story PC gamers accustomed to the literally thousands of new games that flood Steam every year may be surprised that Epic is launching its recently announced Game Store tonight with just three third-party titles. A small handful more are ..
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Enlarge / Steam is the guy standing his ground on the left. Epic is the guy jumping in with a Superman punch on the right. reader comments 205 with 110 posters participating Share this story Over the years, we’ve seen a lot of new PC game platforms try to make a dent in Steam’s market-dominating ..
Enlarge / Disclaimer: Artist’s conception. Do not play Fortnite while skydiving. Ars Technica and Epic Games will not be held liable for any injuries sustained jumping out of planes while playing the game. Void where prohibited. In bringing Fortnite to Android this summer, Epic gambled that the biggest video game phenomenon in the world could ..
That $59.88 price is looking downright quaint these days. (credit: Imgur) Fortnite owes much of its massively scaled success to the fact that anyone can download and play the game’s battle royale mode for free. But that free-to-play popularity hasn’t stopped people from paying heavily inflated prices of up to $450 for disc-based retail copies of ..
Enlarge / Don’t forget, you’re here forever! Epic accounts that have been used to play Fortnite on the PS4 are blocked from use on other console versions of the game, including the newly released Nintendo Switch version. The move is a seemingly untenable expansion of Sony’s long-standing unwillingness to allow cross-platform play between the PS4 ..
Enlarge / I’m king of the mountain! reader comments 26 Share this story Fortnite: Battle Royale hasn’t quite grabbed me. While the game is at least accurately named, the gunplay—originally designed to let players mow down hordes of mostly mindless AI bots—isn’t as suited for culling other human players in a Battle Royale mode. Developer ..
Enlarge / Mobile Fortnite matches will start just like this, except without the “space bar” control tip. reader comments 53 Share this story For years now, gamers have gotten used to popular, big-budget console and PC games coming to mobile phones in the form of cheesy, heavily scaled-down “companion experiences” like match-three games or mindless ..
Enlarge / Artist’s conception of Sony fighting off the developers and players demanding cross-platform play for their games. reader comments 22 Share this story Amid all the pre-scripted announcements and canned trailers at last night’s Game Awards extravaganza, there were a few unexpected moments to the evening. And while A Way Out director Josef Fares’ ..