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If you thought train heists were reserved for Western games like RDR, you’re wrong. Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 1 adds a fun and rewarding train heist to the game.

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Fortnite's collaboration with Lego is kicking off with an awesome freebie.

Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 1: Underground lets you grapple and deal melee damage all in one with the Grapple Blade. With this item, you’ll be slashing enemies and traversing the brand-new map in no time.

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All live service games get hit with server issues and glitches from time to time, but none is more annoying than the Servers Not Responding Error in Fortnite. It forces players out of their planned session and can ruin an evening.

Fortnite Chapter 5 Season 1 Underground is a big departure from anything that’s come before, especially the OG season. There are a lot of new features for players to understand and master if they want to make the most of their time in-game.

Players were robbed of the chance to get a rare item in Fortnite earlier this month, but now the Competitor’s Time Brella is back for a limited time for everyone to pick up as a reward for doing very little in one of the game’s toughest game modes.

Fortnite is filled with cosmetic items and skins for players to unlock and show off in every match they play. Some are rarer than others, and others, such as the Competitor’s Time Brella, are so exclusive that they’re only available to the most skilled players.

Fortnite fans have noticed that Eminem's infamously fast rapping abilities are seemingly too much for some of the game's audio-reactive skins to handle, as it appears to be breaking them.

Storm Flips are back in Fortnite OG, so you can now cast deadly weather on your foes to eliminate them or use it to your advantage to survive.

As you’re diving through the map in your umbrellas, surfboards and Kuramas, you’ll notice that some spots of the map are now colored in gold in Fortnite OG.

Fortnite’s maps are always packed with weapons and items for players to gather and cause havoc with. It’s the essence of its battle royale mode, but some matches can see players go long periods of time without them, so it’s handy to know where Chests and Ammo Boxes are.

Fortnite players rejoice — you no longer need to return to the lobby after every single match, or accidentally press the ‘report player’ button when trying to play again. After days of the button being missing, you can finally press ‘Ready Up’ again immediately after a game finishes. 

Marshall Never More is a skin coming to Fortnite alongside The Big Bang Event and Eminem collaboration. In addition to the new skin, players can unlock the exclusive Marshall Magma Style that won’t be around forever, one that will set them apart from other Fortnite fans.

If there’s one thing that Fortnite has in spades, it’s the wide variety of iconic skins spanning multiple sub-cultures, celebrities, and games. However, there are skins and cosmetics that aren’t really rated for the younger crowd, and with the new age restriction, that leaves fewer options for those players.

Players were pleasantly surprised when Epic Games added the Runaway Racer skin to Fortnite OG Season at no additional cost. The only caveat is that players need to work harder than they’ve ever worked in-game to unlock it.

Epic Games is taking an additional step to curb inappropriate behavior in Fortnite by introducing a new voice reporting feature, making it easier for players to easily clip audio and anonymously file a report whenever they catch another player violating the community rules.

In a crossover I never thought I'd be writing about, three Newcastle United FC (NUFC) players descended on xQc, iShowSpeed, Clix, and Mongraal with shotguns (in Fortnite) and laid waste to them in just under two minutes at 1am. Speedy HQ shared a clip of the wipeout on Twitter where you can hear all four streamers getting progressively madder at footballers they don't know from what is objectively the best city in England.

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By Jay Peters, a news editor who writes about technology, video games, and virtual worlds. He’s submitted several accepted emoji proposals to the Unicode Consortium.

Rift Encounters were introduced to Fortnite in Chapter 4, but the way they work brings together elements from throughout the game’s past seasons. Now Fortnite OG is underway, taking players back in time to Chapter 1’s map, they’re a tool to access future technology.

Quadcrashers are back, baby! That’s right, Fortnite OG has blessed us all with the return of one of the craziest stunt-performing vehicles the Island has ever seen. But just where are these mischievous little things and how can you lay your hands on one of them?

OG Fortnite adds one of the game’s coolest vehicles ever in Week 2: the Driftboard. Since it’s likely we’ll only get one week to make the most of it, let’s figure out where you can track down Driftboards in Fortnite OG.

Week 2 of Fortnite unvaults one of the game’s most beloved OG vehicles. The days of flying across the map on our quads are gone, but that doesn’t mean Quadcrashers aren’t one of the best vehicles currently available in Fortnite OG.

Fortnite OG is changing every week and the loot pool changes with it. Week 2 is based on a new season bringing back Rift Encounters and all sorts of other madness. The most interesting changes keeping players on their toes are to weapons and vehicles.

Another set of Slone Audio Logs has been hidden away on the Fortnite OG map. You’ll be able to find these audio recordings scattered throughout the map, and they’re going to be different locations from the ones you discover during the first week of the season.

Tracking down every Chapter 4 Season OG’s Hidden Gnomes isn’t easy, but it’s well worth the effort if you’re interested in leveling up fast through the new Battle Pass. These Hidden Gnomes are scattered all across the island, and by interacting with each one, you can collect some Battle Pass XP. However, they’re not always easy to find.

You'll feel right at home with these XP-gifting gnomes in Fortnite OG.

Battle Royale hit Fortnite has added a touch of Stranger Things to its item shop, with characters and items from the show available to purchase.

In, players can take a long trip down memory lane, revisiting old haunts and favorite landing spots from seasons past. Billed as a nostalgia trip into distant past, resets the game and brings back the original island map for you to explore. However, picking a good landing spot is still a crucial step in winning a coveted Victory Royale crown.

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The Fortnite OG Battle Pass boasts yet another hyper-customizable skin, this time boasting throwbacks to some of the Battle Royale’s most iconic characters. Spectra Knight, who resembles the coveted Chapter 1 Season 2 Knight skins, has a lot of variants to unlock.

The Fortnite OG Season will have several returning assets and features returning to the game that hasn’t been around since Chapter 1. One thing some players are curious about is the return of B.R.U.T.E. Mechs and bringing them back to the Battle Royale.

The Raven Team Leader captivated Fortnite OG Season fans the moment it was revealed. Despite being revealed along with the OG Season Battle Pass skins, this cuddly nightmare isn’t a part of the band and can’t be unlocked without paying a price.

SecludedSpireis a Landmark in Fortnite that was added in Season 1 of Chapter 4. It is part of the mainland island of Asteria and is in the southeast part of the map.

The UI change in Fortnite modified a lot of settings in the main game. This has made things much harder to navigate, like finding the visual audio option.

As it's almost Halloween, we're sure a lot of you are planning your costumes for the upcoming party. Will it be a simple bedsheet-ghost affair, or something a little more intricate?

2010’s Alan Wake is now in Fortnite, as a collaboration between both Remedy and Epic Games called Alan Wake: Flashback brings a free experience to the battle royale game alongside some premium skins of the troubled writer himself.

If you're super-excited for the release of Alan Wake 2 later this month, but can't quite recall the events of the first game (entirely reasonably seeing as the original version came out over a decade ago), Fortnite of all places might have the answer. Epic has whacked a free playable 20-minute Alan Wake recap episode that should serve as a refresher while offering a bit of spooky battery gobbling fun along the way.

These days, Fortnite is mostly a game about playing Fortnite. To play Fortnite well is simply to always be playing Fortnite, and not doing other things. Other things will come to you, in Fortnite: concerts, anime, movies, and all sorts of brand collabs. It’s its own little ecosystem, where corporations go to remind the youths about other places they can spend their money. Kind of like a mall, except popular.

Today, Epic and Remedy announced they have partnered with Spiral House and Zen Creative to make Alan Wake: Flashback. Created using the Unreal Editor for Fortnite, this is a reimagining of the story of the first Alan Wake game, and it may now be accessed in Discover or through the island code 3426-5561-3374.

By Andrew Webster, an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories.

Ahsoka Tano is officially live in Fortnite alongside a brand-new themed battle pass, she'll also teach you some new Force abilities if you find her in-game. 

Star Wars' Ahsoka Tano is now a part of Epic Games' battle royale, Fortnite. She joined Fortnite Chapter 4 Season 4: Last Resort this morning and includes a battle pass, her white Jedi Training Lightsaber weapon, Force abilities, and more. Epic says Ahsoka, her lightsaber, and Force abilities will remain in Fortnite until the v26.30 update. 

Parents whose kids bought virtual gear without their knowledge on the popular Fortnite video game could soon be able to get a refund.

This week kicked off with the launch of another returning anime collab in Fortnite. The latest addition rings the bell for another round with the anime adaptation of Kohei Horikoshi’s smash hit manga My Hero Academia. This time players can deck themselves out like Shoto Todoroki, Eijiro Kirishima, and Mina Ashido, battling with countless other wisps of pop culture ephemera within an ever-shifting battlefield. It’s a simple opportunity to play around with a set of fan favorites, and it’s just the latest example of a continuing trend in Fortnite that has resulted in standout visuals and some truly impressive feats of licensing wizardry. 

Another day means another crossover in Epic Games’ battle royale, and this time Star Wars is joining in the fun once more: a Fortnite Ahsoka skin is on the way in Chapter 4 Season 4 — Last Resort.

A new season of Fortnite has arrived, which means there's a ton to learn about. Here's everything new you'll find on the island in Chapter 4 Season 4.

Sonic the Hedgehog 2006 (better known as Sonic '06), is typically seen as the lowest point in the series, but that doesn't mean it didn't do anything right. Over the years, its levels have been more fondly remembered than its story, so it's a shame most of them are stuck to languish in Sonic '06 evermore.

Epic Games has announced its latest collaboration, this time with the animated comedy, Futurama.

Futurama's back, if you hadn't heard, and celebrating its latest return by also dropping into Fortnite.

By Andrew Webster, an entertainment editor covering streaming, virtual worlds, and every single Pokémon video game. Andrew joined The Verge in 2012, writing over 4,000 stories.

Unreal Editor for Fornite has opened the doors for aspiring game developers to get a foothold on game development. While you might think this would only appeal to novices, the doors are open to everyone. This has led some established developers to see this as an opportunity. Look North World is a small “community-focused” development studio aiming to develop social experiences in Fortnite.