Fortnite Festival getting instrument controller support is a ‘priority’

The head of Harmonix, the studio behind Fortnite Festival, has confirmed that it plans to add "many hundreds" of free new songs to the mode every year.

One of the biggest strengths of Lego is that you're only limited to your imagination. You're given a bunch of blocks and told to make whatever you like, and the same can mostly be said for Lego Fortnite, the free-to-play Minecraft-style mode recently added to Fortnite. While players are managing to make airships and recreate Star Destroyers, there's one big problem players are running into that's stopping them from unleashing their true creativity.

Square Enix has revealed the schedule for the Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival of 2024, taking place in Tokyo. The event will be available for live-streaming for those unable to attend the event in person. 

This year's Fortnite Winterfest is now underway, with the seasonal spectacular seeming to raise one particular question among the fans: where is Sgt Winter? Luckily, his location isn't that difficult to find!

Fortnite's Festival is already set to corner the rhythm market by install base alone, introducing a Rock Band-like experience into Epic's ongoing everything game. In addition to LEGO Fortnite and Rocket Racing, it's clear that Epic's plans for total digital domination are close to coming to fruition.

You won’t find Rock Band Unplugged at the top of many Best PSP Games lists, but the Harmonix spin-off – released during the peak of plastic peripheral popularity – was one of the finest games you could find on Sony’s handheld during its pre-PS Vita renaissance circa-2009. A stripped-back version of the main console games, this portable reimagining saw you switching between instruments, completing “phrases” by rhythmically tapping buttons in time to the music.

Having officially entered our Fortnite Festival era, we're quite excited to see that the surreal pseudo-metaverse Epic has cooked up and is getting instrument controller support as soon as next month.

Somehow, LEGO Fortnite players have discovered how to build a teleporter creation that replicates fast travel. I have no idea how they did it, but it happened.

It may have been developed by Harmonix – now a subsidiary of Epic Games – but Fortnite Festival is not Rock Band 5. Let’s get that out of the way immediately, because I’ve certainly already seen claims to the contrary. In fact, Fortnite Festival has more in common with the boy band Five than Rock Band 5; that is, it’s a transparently commercial exercise that simply switches the question “What if the Spice Girls were blokes?” with “What else can we sell for V-Bucks?”

Every year, Fortnite is the host of a Winterfest event, featuring an array of festive challenges to complete and free goodies to add to your locker. Although Winterfest 2023 doesn’t feature a log cabin for you to visit, you can still open the gifts that would usually be inside.

Fortnite’s annual Winterfest event is back and all players can earn free rewards and complete festive challenges this holiday season. Below, you’ll find all the quests that are live and how much XP is tied to each one.

Fortnite is the surprise hit of the winter gaming season. Although the battle royale game has maintained popularity for several years, it’s now seeing yet another massive surge in interest. Last week, Epic Games released several new modes that bring entirely different kinds of games to Fortnite. Among the additions is a rhythm game called Fortnite Festival. In it, players can form bands with others while playing as Fortnite characters. Now, players are using it to create the most absurd bands possible and share clips online as characters like Goku, Peter Griffin, Kratos, and Gojo hit the stage.