Fall Guys assist to proceed, regardless of recreation property and characters coming to Fortnite

Epic Video Games has mentioned the way forward for Fall Guys, following as we speak’s announcement that its recreation property, animations and characters are coming to Fortnite’s UEFN inventive mode.

Gamers will be capable of make and play their very own customized Fall Guys ranges in Fortnite from Could, Epic Video games introduced as we speak throughout its State of Unreal presentation. Lego and Rocket Racing recreation property arrive in UEFN as we speak, in the meantime.

Talking to Eurogamer, Epic Video games govt vp Saxs Persson stated the addition of Fall Guys characters and gameplay to Fortnite will profit gamers by the character of it being accessible from inside Fortnite, the place hundreds of thousands play already. That stated, the unique Fall Guys recreation may also nonetheless proceed on.

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“If we began Fall Guys improvement over as we speak, we might do it inside Fortnite,” Persson stated, when requested if Fall Guys improvement would ever solely exist inside Fortnite. “However we’re the place we’re, we do not have something to announce proper now.

“You be taught various things while you’re separate, however we really imagine the magic of Fortnite is having enjoyable in a recreation with your mates so the extra gamers there are, the extra content material there’s, the extra enjoyable you’ve. So by that easy measure, it advantages us to have all the things in a single place.”

Persson pointed to the launch of Lego Fortnite, Psyonix’s Rocket Racing and Harmonix’s Fortnite Competition in December final 12 months for instance of this – the place “the pattern charge is extraordinarily excessive as a result of it is really easy to leap into”.

An Epic Video games spokesperson subsequently confirmed that the corporate was persevering with to assist Fall Guys as a standalone title.

Fall Guys first launched to very large success in 2020 for PC and PlayStation 4, developed by British studio Mediatonic. Epic Video games purchased Mediatonic the next 12 months. In 2022, variations of Fall Guys for Nintendo Change, PS5, Xbox One and Xbox Sequence X/S arrived, as the sport went free-to-play and clocked up 50 million gamers in two weeks.

Final autumn’s layoffs by Epic Video games reportedly hit Mediatonic arduous, although work on Fall Guys remained an organization precedence, Epic informed Eurogamer on the time.