Fortnite is an online video game developed by Epic Games and released in 2017. It is available in three distinct game mode versions that otherwise share the same general gameplay and game engine: Fortnite Battle Royale, a free-to-play battle royale game in which up to 100 players fight to be the last person standing; Fortnite: Save the World, a cooperative hybrid tower defense-shooter and survival game in which up to four players fight off zombie-like creatures and defend objects with traps and fortifications they can build; and Fortnite Creative, in which players are given complete freedom to create worlds and battle arenas.
Save the World and Battle Royale were released in 2017 as early access titles, while Creative was released on December 6, 2018. While the Save the World and Creative versions have been successful for Epic Games, Fortnite Battle Royale in particular became an overwhelming success and a cultural phenomenon, drawing more than 125 million players in less than a year, earning hundreds of millions of dollars per month. Fortnite as a whole generated $9 billion in gross revenue up until December 2019.
Save the World is available for macOS, PlayStation 4, Windows, and Xbox One, while Battle Royale and Creative were released for all those platforms, and also for Android and iOS devices and Nintendo Switch. The game also launched with the release of the ninth-generation PlayStation 5 and Xbox Series X/S consoles.
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Solid Snake, the main protagonist of the Metal Gear Solid franchise, was added to the Chapter 5: Season 1 Battle Pass as the season's Bonus Outfit. He is the first Gaming Legends Series outfit of Chapter 5, and the fourth one to be apart of a Battle Pass, with Lara Croft, Doom Slayer and Geralt of Rivia preceding him.
Raiden was also added to the game around the same time as Snake, being sold in the Item Shop for 1,800 V-Bucks.
A second wave of Metal Gear collabs are currently in the works. It's currently unknown what skins will come from this second wave, but leaks suggest it is being worked on.