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Fortnite is an online video game and game platform developed by Epic Games and released in 2017. It is available in six distinct game mode versions that otherwise share the same general gameplay and game engine: Fortnite Battle Royale, a free-to-play battle royale game in which up to 100 players fight to be the last person standing; Fortnite: Save the World, a cooperative hybrid tower defense ...
Epic Online Services is a free SDK based on Epic's Fortnite code that allows developers to implement cross-platform play features in their games, including matchmaking, friends lists, leaderboards, and achievements, with support for Windows, macOS, PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch, iOS, and Android systems.
Epic Games has used the names Potomac Computer Systems, Epic MegaGames, and Epic Games; the name given for the company is the one used at the time of a game's release. Many of the games under the Epic MegaGames brand were released as a set of separate episodes, which were purchasable and playable separately or as a group.
In 2020, Epic Games announced it would accept direct payments on the mobile app version of Fortnite. The move briefly allowed the company to circumvent Google and Apple’s in-app fees on purchases.
Fortnite servers were still undergoing scheduled maintenance for the version 29.00 update as of 10 a.m. EST Friday. DownDetector had a peak of 1,259 reports of Fortnite outages at 9 a.m.
Just after 4 p.m., Epic Games offered an update: "We’re continuing the work to bring Fortnite back online. Players will be able to pre-download an updated version of v29.00 in approximately 5 hours.
Background Epic Games's founder and CEO Tim Sweeney. Since 2015, Epic Games's founder and CEO Tim Sweeney had questioned the need for digital storefronts like Valve's Steam, Apple's App Store for iOS devices, and Google Play, to take a 30% revenue sharing cut, and argued that when accounting for current rates of content distribution and other factors needed, a revenue cut of 8% should be ...
The smash success of Fortnite OG comes as Epic Games heads to federal court in an antitrust lawsuit against Google that could reshape how smartphone users get Android apps and pay for in-app content.