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Epic Games as a company has never been one to fear change. It's succeeded in shareware PC titles, arena shooters, triple-A console shooters, and mobile titles, and it's making another leap with the free-to-play Fortnite. Epic revealed the game at the 2011 VGAs, but little has been known about it outside of a basic fort-building theme. In the May issue of Game Informer, we offer the first extensive look at the ambitious new project.
Fortnite features the cooperative third-person shooter core Epic Games is known for, but rather than throwing you into scripted events and corridors, the game challenges you to explore the environment for resources and build fortresses while fending off waves of attackers at the same time. With an RPG-like progression system, Diablo-like looting, multiple campaigns of varying lengths, procedurally generated worlds, and the promise of player vs. player battles, Epic is offering plenty of replayability that it hopes will provide the game with a long lifecycle. You can check out our coverage trailer below or watch and share the video on YouTube.
The issue features 20 pages of coverage dedicated to Fortnite and Epic Games, including tons of exclusive screenshots and an examination of how the studio has evolved with the departure of key figures like Cliff Blezinski, Mike Capps, and Rod Fergusson.
The rest of the issue is also packed with must-read features. We also conducted an interview with Oculus VR co-founder Palmer Luckey after the much-publicized buyout from Facebook. Former LucasArts partners share details about the cancelled Darth Maul game that was in development at Red Fly Studio (this is a follow-up piece to our look at the downfall of LucasArts). We also sit down with PlayStation icons Ken Kutaragi, Andrew House, and Mark Cerny to discuss the platform's past, present, and future.
In addition to our cover story and features, the issue contains previews of Watch Dogs, Mario Kart 8, and The Crew. Reviewed in the May issue are South Park, Titanfall, Dark Souls II, Metal Gear Solid V: Ground Zeroes, and Infamous: Second Son.
Print subscribers should see their issues arriving in the coming days. If you subscribe digitally, your May issue is available now on PC/Mac, iPad, Android, and Google Play. You can also get the latest issue through third-party apps on Nook, Kindle, and Zinio starting tomorrow. To switch your print subscription to digital, click here, or to create a new subscription to the digital edition, click here. Click on the banner below to visit the hub and keep track of our month of exclusive Fortnite coverage.
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Interested in a chance to get your own hands-on time with the game? Sign up for Fortnite's alpha testing at Epic's official website.
Looks pretty sick but PC only means a no...
I was wondering where this game went.
Hmmm. I love epic games, and I hold high hopes for this, but what I really wanted for the cover story was mass effect 4. Make it happen GI
Alright, its time to figure out why the next month cover and I have yet to see Aprils content. By the time I see the mag, all the news is old and I am hoping for something different. Its time to figure out why this is the case and whether its worth paying for the magazine.
I hope this game releases on PS4!!! It looks amazing!!! Though I wouldn't be surprised if it only released on PC and XB1 or something :/
I've been wondering for awhile what the hell happened to this game. Has it really been almost 3 years? Wow, I hope this is as great as I was thinking when I first heard about it.
Oooooooh, it involves shooting! Who would have thought! But I am always happy to see revolutionary ideas take shape in the form of new IPs.
GI, for the 97th time, is either drunk, has eaten some strange and uncooked "beef," or is showing conspicuous signs of its own franchise fatigue, or OMFG I could come up with hundreds of these things!! Or maybe it's been convinced by Obama (HAHA!) that finding your inner homo is a new and much improved way to be enlightened, which would deceitfully and malignantly lead it to go trans, or...... let's put it this way, this is the last subscription I'm paying to read magazines of totao b.s. and the worst part, the inconsistency of appealing cover reveals. Free to play? Ha!! I didn'know I live in Britain! How socialist is this country becoming? And on 5he part of most readers, I will say most all of these cover reveals suck and are irrelevant to the industry.
So pumped. DON'T JUDGE ME!
Finally something about Fortnite! Epic has been way to quite about that game.
I thought they stopped development on this game, haven't heard anything about it in forever. I gotta say though, I'm not interested in this game at all. Unreal Tournament was fun and I absolutely love Gears... but this game looks like it should've came out 10 years ago.
Very surprised GI felt this was cover story material.
first cover i've cared about in a while again , nice to know more news on this to come too since was wondering about it ^^
Andy was in the video, I'm sold.