The PUBG-like battle royale game will be released on both Android and iOS, with a beta for the latter beginning next week.
The PUBG-like battle royale game will be released on both Android and iOS, with a beta for the latter beginning next week.
Fortnite, released last July for the PS4, Xbox One and PC, is best described as a game that’s kinda like PlayerUnknown’s Battlegrounds. But now it’s truly setting itself apart with a mobile port.
The mobile version of Fortnite, announced on Thursday by Epic Games, is ambitious: It’ll feature the same 100-player battle royale gameplay that its console brethren is famous for (and which PUBG initially made a phenomenon). Even more impressively, the iOS and Android games will feature cross-play with the PC and PS4 versions.
« Same gameplay, same map, same content, same weekly updates, » a post on Epic’s site read. « In partnership with our friends at Sony, Fortnite Battle Royale will support Cross Play and Cross Progression between PlayStation 4, PC, Mac, iOS and eventually Android. »
If you’re not familiar with the battle royale concept, it’s where you and a bunch of other players — 100, in the case of Fortnite — are dropped into a map and battle until there’s only one person left.
Conspicuously absent from cross-play is the Xbox One version, while a beta for the iOS port of Fortnite begins next Monday.
Obviously inspired by PUBG, Fortnite has become a giant unto itself. Fueled mainly by its free battle royale mode (the Save the World mode, in which you team with other players to kill monsters, currently costs $40, £33 and AU$60), the game was reported last month to have hit 3.4 million concurrent players, beating PUBG’s record of 3.2 million. Fortnite had 45 million downloads as of January.
