Everybody Calm Down, Fortnite Battle Royale Is Not Shutting Down

Reports recently began swirling that Fortnite Battle Royale was going to be canceled because of a lawsuit with PUBG Corp over copyright infringement. A Tweet from the official Epic Games Twitter account supposedly said so. This immediately caused panic among members of the Battle Royale community before it was finally diffused. The Tweet was fake, of course, and was proven thus so.

As Forbes notes, this is the age of Fake News and it has become a fact of life. As such, one would think that publications would know better than to report on something that is clearly fraudulent as if it was fact. The Tweet already had plenty of suspicious details about it even before it was debunked by one of the people at Epic.

With regards to the actual message that sparked the controversy, to begin with, it basically came via screengrab of a supposed Tweet using Epic’s official account. The post announced that Fortnite Battle Royale would be shutting down because of a lawsuit between Epic and PUBG Corp. with all the telltale signs of a fake news content.

"Due to the law suit against PubG on copyright infringement. We are sorry to inform you that Fortnite Battle Royale Will be coming to an end May 24, 2018. Save the world will still be in development and we will roll out ASAP. Thank you all for the support,” the Tweet read.

The most glaring sign that this Tweet was fake was the fact that lawsuit is spelled as one word, not two. This should have already made it suspicious.

Anybody who even bothered to check Epic official Twitter account would have also known that the company has never posted any such Tweet. Shutting down a game because of a lawsuit that no one has heard of and neither PUBG Corp. nor Epic officially announced is simply inconceivable, and yet so many tabloid publications chose to publish this development as actual news.