Festival News, Tips, Tricks & Ideas

Billie Eilish is the latest music artist to join Fortnite as part of Season 3 of its Fortnite Festival, a Rock Band style music game mode. Previous Fortnite Festival artists include,  Lady Gaga, The Weeknd, and Ariana Grande.

 Sega’s latest NGS Headline for Phantasy Star Online New Genesis revealed plans to celebrate the game’s 3rd anniversary with an event titled Halpha’s Super Origin Festival.

Star Wars returns to Fortnite on May 3, one day before the annual May 4 Star Wars celebrations.

Government agency Screen Australia has launched the Games Festival and Events Fund.

Today the Tribeca Festival, which recognizes achievement across various entertainment mediums, announced their games lineup for 2024.

Just yesterday, we learned that Billie Eilish would be headlining Season 3 of Fortnite Festival, the free-to-play music mode which has slowly but surely cornered the periphery market. With the update now live, there were a few welcome extra additions. For starters, guitar controller support for Harmonix's previous effort, Rock Band 4, is now available, meaning those dusty old axes can finally be put to good use.

The Bad Guy herself, Billie Eilish, will be the next musical megastar to grace the Fortnite Festival mainstage, following in the footsteps of Lady Gaga and The Weeknd. Eilish revealed she will take the stage today, 23rd April, presumably with a list of free-to-player bangers.

Epic Games has announced that FortniteFestival season 3 will feature pop star Billie Eilish.

You may be able to give those plastic Rock Band guitars you have stuffed away in the attic a new lease of life. Fortnite Festival (a Rock Band-style mode that debuted in Fortnite in December) now supports several Rock Band 4 controllers across PlayStation, Xbox and PC, as detailed in a blog post.

Fortnite Festival should feel even more like Rock Band today, as guitar controller support is finally added to the game mode. Only certain controllers are compatible, but it at least makes it possible for some of us to recreate the good ol' days of rhythm games being playable with big plastic controllers, even if not all the instruments are available right now.

The latest Fortnite Festival update has finally added support for Rock Band 4 guitar controllers.

Over four months after Fortnite Festival was released, Harmonix and Epic Games announced that the rhythm game now supports Rock Band 4 plastic guitar controllers.

Billie Eilish is the next artist to take over Fortnite Festival, joining the game tomorrow. This was just confirmed by Eilish herself over on Instagram, also revealing her Fortnite skin.

Pokemon Sleep has announced a Flower Festival event for April. This event comes ahead of the Good Sleep Day event announced recently. The Flower Festival is the first of its kind, but there have been previous events in Pokemon Sleep like the Raikou Research that have been similar.

Garena Free Fire MAX Redeem Codes for April 10: Weapons in Garena Free Fire MAX are considered essential to players' chances of winning. There are several types of weapons available in the battle royale game, from launchers, machine guns, and sub-machine guns to Gatling guns and healing pistols. To personalize these items, the developers of Garena Free Fire MAX introduce weapon skins from time to time, which not only give the weapon a cosmetic tweak but can also boost some of its capabilities. So, if you wish to get your hands on similar items, then check out the new M1887 Ring event in Garena Free Fire MAX.

Xiaomi Fan Festival 2024 has commenced in India, marking the 14th anniversary of the global brand's journey. This celebration brings forth exciting discounts on a wide array of Xiaomi and Redmi products, ranging from smartphones to Smart TVs and AIoT devices. The festival, which began on Saturday, promises a week-long extravaganza of slashed prices and enticing deals.

One of the newest Summer Festivals in the version 1.6 update is the Trout Derby. It is a small and quiet outing for anyone who fancies fishing in the indie farm life simulator. This mini-festival takes place on the 20th and 21st of Summer. It starts at 6:10 am and ends at 2:00 am on both days.Grab yourself a new Tent Kit to set up a place to sleep and take advantage of the atmosphere and bountiful prizes.

Dead Island 2 is getting a DLC after the game was promised two different DLC’s to be releasing this year. Sola Festival is the latest DLC which will be releasing in just a couple weeks. After a post was made on Reddit, it revealed what seems to be a tweet from the Dead Island Twitter page, but after checking the page, the tweet can’t be found. So it seems this information was accidentally leaked out before release.

The much-anticipated 1.6 update for Stardew Valley is finally out now on PC. As part of the update, a host of new content has been added to the game, including a major new festival, new mini festivals, an environmental event, a new skill system for the endgame, and a new farm type, among many other features. For more details, check out the full patch notes below.

Spring is in the air and The Lord of the Rings Online is celebrating with the arrival of the Spring Festival event.

Fortnite's Festival mode receives eight new music tracks on March 14, including Darude's Sandstorm, DMX's X Gon' Give It To Ya, and other recognizable songs. Fortnite Festival's Season 2 began last month and runs until April 22.

Fortnite Lantern Fest returns for another year of festivities to coincide with the Islamic tradition of Ramadan.

Turtle Beach is acquiring Performance Designed Products [PDP] in a $118 million deal that brings together two major third-party gaming accessory manufactuers.

Some games are classic, some are straight-up addictive and some are just flash-in-the-pan fun. Subway Surfers is definitely the first two. This game took the gaming world by storm with its train-dodging and coin-collecting action. Now, the Subway Surfers festival update is set to draw you back in and see what’s new on the tracks!

The acclaimed dark fantasy collection RPG — RAID: Shadow Legends — has just marked its 5th anniversary! Since its launch in 2019, the game has surpassed 100 million downloads across various platforms and 12 billion hours of play time. 

Fortnite Festival is getting new tracks, and it's great news for anyone who grew up in the 2000s. Eight new tracks will be added to the game this Thursday, including hits from Paramore, Disturbed, Panic! at the Disco, and more.

Fortnite Festival Season 2 is here with the surprise entry of iconic singer Lady Gaga slated as the highlight. The collaboration marks the entry of the singer to the gaming world which will officially begin from February 22, 2024. The game will feature some of Gaga's famous songs as playable Jam Tracks which will give a chance to players to perform on a stage. The Fortnite Festival Season 2 will feature Gaga-inspired items from her latest album, "Chromatica”. Check what you can get from the new season, including new outfits, Jam Tracks, and much more.

Three of Fortnite's newest modes,LEGO Fortnite, Rocket Racing, and Fortnite Festival, have received major updates that add new features and ways to play. Thanks to new modes and updates like these, Fortnite remains healthier than ever.

Epic Games has detailed the collaboration between Lady Gaga and Fortnite Festival, which arrives as part of Season 2 on February 22.

If you haven’t been paying attention Fortnite is now much more than building towers and blasting humanoid bananas. Epic Games is doing what Meta wishes it could and is busy building a bona fide metaverse, with Fortnite rapidly becoming a platform for varied interactive experiences with the Battle Royale mode at its core. Over the last few months, we’ve seen ‘Rocket Racing’, the Minecraft-like ‘LEGO Fortnite’, and expansions of the Creative Modes in which players can make pretty much whatever they want.

Iconic pop sensation Lady Gaga has announced that she'll be coming to Fortnite Festival. 

It appears Lady Gaga is going to make an appearance in Fortnite Festival, as the singer is teasing an upcoming collaboration with Epic Games.

Fortnite will be hosting yet another gigantic collab, as it seems Lady Gaga, one of the biggest artists in the world, will be the face of Fortnite Festival Season 2. Epic Games added three main game modes to Fortnite at the end of last year: Rocket Racing, a Rocket League-like racing game; LEGO Fortnite, a survival game with LEGO aesthetics; and Fortnite Festival, a rhythm game similar to Rock Band.

Recent rumors swirling around about Fortnite's Festival mode are suggesting that February 22 is a date that fans of the rhythm mode should be looking forward to. After Fortnite introduced Fortnite Festival back in December, some fans of the mode have been wondering when the next update will be, and players may be getting an answer sooner than expected.

Octopath Traveler: Champions of the Continent, the single-player JRPG, is dropping the Spring Festival on February 8th, 2024. It’s exclusively for players across South East Asia. And let me tell you, there are tons of goodies to snag in this Octopath Traveler: CotC Spring Festival!

This news is a bit of a bummer but quite amusing at the same time! Bushiroad and KLab Games dropped one-of-a-kind news, the global launch date of Love Live! School Idol Festival 2 along with its end of service date. Probably the first time in the history of video games ever, the announcements of the launch of a title and its EOS have been dropped together.

Free-to-play rhythm game Love Live! School Idol Festival 2 MIRACLE LIVE! will end service on March 31 for Japan and May 31 worldwide, Bushiroad announced (2).

Riding the wave from highs to lows, it’s all too easy to forget that Destiny 2‘s live-service model is still trucking on regardless of any other happenstance. For example, consider this year’s Festival of the Lost, which once again allows players to vote on their favorite armor ahead of time.

Harmonix has announced that it is ending support for Rock Band 4 after eight years of DLC and moving its attention towards Fortnite Festival, calling it "the place to be".

After 16 years worth of DLC releases totalling 2,779 songs, Harmonix has confirmed that Rock Band DLC is finally coming to an end as the studio continues its transition to Fortnite Festival.

Guildford.Games is returning next month. The event is free to attend and is sponsored by Hello Games, Criterion Software, Supermassive Games, Sledgehammer Games, and many more studios with offices in the UK region.

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Final Fantasy 14's third and final Fan Festival of the Endwalker expansion just took place in Tokyo over the weekend. While there was a surprise lack of release date for upcoming expansion Dawntrail, we did get to see tons of neat stuff: female hrothgar, artsy class Pictomancer, and a bizarro cyberpunk world that has me wondering just what the hell the Warrior of Light is getting up to on his summer vacation.

Final Fantasy XIV Fan Festival 2024 in Tokyo kicks off tonight, and we're expecting many an announcement for the upcoming expansion, Dawntrail.

At long last, the Final Fantasy 14 team has reached the final live event of this season in Japan, the FFXIV Fan Festival in Tokyo, where it’s likely to receive a warm, excited welcome from plenty of excited fans in its home country. It’s also the last in-person event before the new Dawntrail expansion drops sometime this summer. 

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.

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. 

The Elder Scrolls Online New Life Winter Festival event is coming soon, and with it players can expect new Merry quests, XP boosts, Holiday Loot boxes, and more. 

Elon Musk claimed Saturday that advertisers were returning to X (formerly Twitter) after an exodus, at a Rome meeting where he also warned Italy's low birth rate could put off investors. The billionaire was a star guest at the Atreju political festival organised by Italian Prime Minister Giorgia Meloni's far-right Brothers of Italy party.

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.

Genshin Impact’s unmatchable update cadence continues with v4.3 on 20th December, significantly slowing the speed of your Fontaine adventure now that the main Archon questline has concluded. Instead, you’ll be invited to the Fontinalia Festival, where you’ll partake in a unique movie making experience.

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.

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?”

Tower of Fantasy  is gearing up for its 3.5 update on December 21st, and the team has revealed a new story trailer for the next simulacrum to join the roster –Yan Miao. 

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.

Fortnite developer Epic Games has taken to social media to reassure fans that the newly added Lego, Rocket Racing, and Festival modes are not limited-time events, but will be sticking around for the foreseeable future. 

Fortnite has been consistently supported with regular and meaty content updates for years at this point, but last week, Epic Games went above and beyond and released three entire games within the battle royale shooter in the form of LEGO Fortnite, Rocket Racing, and Fortnite Festival. All three games have got off to great starts in terms of reception and player engagement, and according to Epic, they’re all here to stay.

To this day, I love getting together with my buddies and having a jam session in Rock Band 4. So when Epic Games announced Fortnite Festival, I was hyped. But upon finding out there wasn’t support for our plastic guitars and drums, not so much.

Epic Games has confirmed that Fortnite’s trio of new game modes are permanent additions to the free-to-play title.

At the top of the month, developer Epic Games launched Chapter 5 of Fortnite's popular Battle Royale mode. But with the start of this new chapter, the team also launched three new experiences within the Fortnite launcher. The first was Lego Fortnite, a survival Minecraft-like game, and soon after, the second, Rocket Racing, a new racing mode created by Rocket League developers Psyonix, went live. The third and final new experience of Chapter 5 (so far, at least) went live over the weekend – it's called Fortnite Festival and is basically Rock Band-lite but in the universe of Fortnite. 

One of three brand new modes, Fortnite Festival is one part of Epic Games's plans to seemingly suck all of gaming into one ever-expanding ecosystem.

Lies of P developer NEOWIZ has just released a new update for the Soulslike game. The 1.4.0.0 patch adds the following three Winter Festival items, available for free to all players:

Fresh off announcing a release window for Zenless Zone Zero, miHoYo has confirmed that the next update for Genshin Impact will launch on December 20th. Version 4.3, “Roses and Muskets”, sees the celebration of the Fontinalia Festival. It also adds two new characters – 5-star Geo wielder Navia and 4-star Cryo user Chevreuse. Check out the first trailer below.

Fortnite Festival is a brand new triple-a rhythm game from Harmonix, creators of Rockband, and it’s available now. It features two special modes: Festival Main Stage and Festival Jam Stage. Main Stage is your classic Rockband mode where you can perform songs with your band while Jam Stage is where you can chill and, as the name suggests, jam.

Fortnite Festival has officially arrived and brings with it a Rock Band-like experience to Fortnite. While it doesn't support instrument controllers at launch, Epic has confirmed to IGN it is a priority for the team to add it in the future and that they are actively working on it.

Fortnite Festival's music tracks have a surprising second function as they can be taken out of the new mode and used as emotes during Battle Royale matches.

Guildford.Games Ltd – a not-for-profit initiative introduced to «showcase the local industry and bring the concentrated, creative talent within Guildford to the attention of the world» – has confirmed its 2024 event will kick off on 16th February 2024.

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It’s almost time again for the Winter Convergence Festival in New World. The team previews this year’s event, with changes for this year, and how they’ve improved rewards for the icy holiday in Aeternum.

Greetings, Adventurers!

Epic Games has revealed the full launch lineup for Fortnite Festival and it includes songs from artists like Fall Out Boy, Kendrick Lamar, and, strangely, LMFAO. Quite the spread.

The Lord of the Rings Online has a bit going on this week as it is launching its Yuletide Festival and getting its Treebeard legendary server to Helm's Deep with a new level cap of 95.

Epic Games has announced a host of new Fortnite modes coming out this week, with one of them being the Fortnite Festival mode.

Epic has announced a new game to join the Fortnite Family, simply titled Fortnite Festival. But what exactly is this game?

Epic Games has been pushing Fortnite as a platform of its own for a while now, and the company is set to take that another step forward. It has announced three new games, all of which will be released and available only in Fortnite in the coming days.

Epic Games has announced three new live service games coming to Fortnite: LEGO Fortnite on December 7, Rocket Racing on December 8, and Fortnite Festival on December 9. A trailer for Rocket Racing will debut at The Game Awards 2023 on December 7.

Stardew Valley fans were excited when creator Concerned Ape announced Festival of Seasons, the first-ever live concert tour featuring music from the game. The Festival of Seasons tour will bring live orchestra performances from Stardew Valley’s soundtrack to several cities around the world, offering fans another exciting way to engage with the cozy gaming sensation.

Although we already know about the Stardew Valley Festival of Seasons concert, the developer ConcernedApe expanded to more concert tour dates and locations due to high demand.

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