Wagner James Au / New World Notes
Author, strategist, virtual world reporter
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Category: Fortnite Creative
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This announcement came sooner than I'd have guessed — though last December, I did predict that in 2024, a leading metaverse platform would be acquired. Well, Disney now owns 10% of one at least: The Walt Disney Company and Epic Games will collaborate on an all-new games and entertainment universe that will further expand the…
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Along with helping promote user-made islands made in Fortnite, Epic just added a LEGO game expansion, Rocket Racing (from the creators of Rocket League), and Fortnite Festival, a Rockband-type multiplayer game mode from the creators of that franchise, to the core Fortnite experience. (Watch above.) Longtime game industry reporter Stephen Totilo has the rundown on…
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Above: Best Fortnite Island nominee Murder Mystery by Alliance (Island Code: 8513-2892-9361) The 1oth annual Game Awards are announced here in LA on December 7th, and while the show has been attracting more viewers than the Oscars since 2018, this year includes another milestone — the first award for user-generated content on a metaverse platform.…
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Huge milestone for Fortnite last Saturday: A little over six years after it launched, battle royale sensation Fortnite just broke its all-time one-day player record — by going back in time. The launch of Fortnite OG, a special season which brings back the game’s original Chapter 1 map, drew an incredible 44.7 million players on Saturday, Nov. 4,…
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Infographic via Game Discover Hard news from Tim Sweeney at Epic: As we shared earlier, we are laying off around 16% of Epic employees… For a while now, we've been spending way more money than we earn, investing in the next evolution of Epic and growing Fortnite as a metaverse-inspired ecosystem for creators. I had…
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At right: Popular Fortnite Creative maps featuring Sponge Bob, Shrek, Minecraft without authorization Mackenzie Jackson, who leads a top Fortnite Creative development studio that's created Fortnite deployments for Doritos and other top brands, recently posted this viral rant about how companies like hers are having to compete against Creative maps with rampant IP violations. Pleading…
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Fortnite in recent years has been the least metaverse-ish of the leading metaverse platforms. While interviewing insiders for my book, my strong sense is that Epic hadn’t originally anticipated outside brands considering the platform as a real world application platform, and assumed it would be more akin to a standard modding mode for gamers. And…
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With news that Microsoft is shutting down its VR metaverse platform AltspaceVR, along with widespread layoffs across most of the major tech companies, you might assume the Metaverse as an industry is also feeling the string. Not so much. On a quick tally of leading metaverse platforms in terms of active users, along with promising…
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"Created in Fortnite" is a really beautiful and moving YouTube series from Epic Games, mini-documentaries of diverse individuals whose lives have been transformed by becoming builders in Fortnite Creative. Here's one above on GQuanoe, who created the much-shared tribute to MLK's "I have a dream" speech in Fortnite. Also cool: Grace Lind Hubbell at Epic,…
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