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Darth Vader Becomes Gemini-Powered Conversational AI in Fortnite

Tim May 16, 2025 1

Fortnite streamers have a new toy to play with. An AI-powered Darth Vader is recruitable to your squad, with players able to actually speak back and forth with the Sith Lord himself. You can talk strategy or even about his depressing past. Powered by Google's...

Epic Games Store Coming to Android

Kellen March 20, 2024 2

The folks over at Epic Games announced today that they are bringing a "true multi-platform" version of the Epic Games Store to Android and iOS later this year. They teased a conceptual image of what that might look like, but the rest of the details aren't...

Fortnite With Touch Controls Now Available to All GeForce NOW Users on Android

Tim May 19, 2022

Back in January, NVIDIA launched a closed beta of Fortnite for Android users via GeForce NOW, and this week, full release is here and the waitlist has been removed. It's time to drop in from the Battle Bus, folks. According to NVIDIA, the beta had more than...

NVIDIA GeForce NOW Streams Fortnite to Android Via Closed Beta

Tim January 13, 2022 2

NVIDIA announced this week that GeForce NOW members and those still playing Fortnite can begin streaming the Epic Games title starting next week, all thanks to a closed beta designed to test the service's server capacity, graphics delivery, and new touch...

Fortnite Creator Claims Google Forced OnePlus to Renege on Launcher Deal

Tim August 14, 2020 23

More details about the battle royale between Fortnite creator Epic Games and Google are surfacing, following yesterday's news that Apple and Google have pulled the game from their respective game stores due to Epic implementing a bypass of those stores'...

Google Bans Fortnite From Google Play

Tim August 13, 2020 64

I was hoping Android wouldn't get dragged into this mess, but because rules are rules, the following has happened. Fortnite has been banned from Google Play, at least until it scales back its most recent update in which Epic Games, the developer behind one of...

OnePlus 8 Lineup Gets Fortnite at 90FPS

Tim May 26, 2020 6

OnePlus and Epic Games announced this week that the OnePlus 8 lineup now supports Fortnite at 90 frames per second, the best refresh rate available for the game on a smartphone. There doesn't appear to be anything additional needed to run Fortnite at 90FPS,...

Fortnite Arrives on Google Play!

Tim April 21, 2020

Rejoice, Fortnite has arrived on Google Play! This is pretty surprisingly, at least to us, since we thought Epic Games (the creators behind the title) had a bit of drama going with Google. Regardless, this means anyone with a supported device and Google Play...