Month: September 2018

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Season 6 of Fortnite is here, right now. There’s just so much Fortnite news dropping it only seems fair to help steer your Fortnite fanaticism to bold new heights and point you to some exclusive skins. With the bombshell announcement Sony is finally allowing crossplay for Fortnite, there are going to be plenty of unfamiliar skins battling it out for victory. Here’s how you can lock in some of your own.

How to Get the Fortnite Double Helix Skin

The Nintendo Switch Fortnite Double Helix bundle isn’t quite as generous as the Xbox One S bundle, at least when it comes to V-Bucks. The Switch Fortnite bundle includes 1,000 V-Bucks and the Nintendo Switch exclusive Double Helix skin. This one isn’t out yet, but you can preorder for next week. Expect to see a sudden influx of Double Helix skins in Fortnite when the bundle comes out October 5.

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Fortnite is undeniably one of the biggest games in the world, but today we saw an example of just how big it is. Sony’s long-standing (and, frankly, embarrassing) stance against cross-play with other consoles is finally coming to an end, and Fortnite is pretty much leading the charge.

Developer Epic Games has been vocal in the past about wanting Sony to embrace cross-play (alongside developers like Psyonix and Bethesda), and actually accidentally enabled the feature briefly last year. Sony even caused a big headache for Epic during Fortnite’s launch on Switch as players who had previously played on PS4 discovered their accounts couldn’t carry over – an issue Sony didn’t have much to say about at the time.

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Tokyo tourists will no longer unofficially be suiting up as their favorite Mario characters and riding go-karts around the city. Nintendo won a lawsuit against an unlicensed Mario Kart ride company today, resulting in damages and the company being banned from using Mario costumes.

Wall Street Journal Tech Reporter Takashi Mochizuki first reported that Tokyo’s Mari Mobility company, which was previously known as MariCar, would have to pay Nintendo 10 million yen (about $88,000 USD) and stop using “Nintendo-related” outfits. “The street go-cart company operates services in Japan, and Nintendo was complaining it was damaging its ‘Mario Kart’ franchise,” Mochizuki wrote.

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