Is Fortnite shutting down? Of course not

The tabloid in query – amongst many different retailers – picked up on this story by Twinfinite, which says the hearsay was began by “a picture of an alleged tweet from the official Fortnite Twitter account.” Here’s their citation of that tweet:

“Due to the regulation swimsuit towards PubG on copyright infringement. We are sorry to tell you that Fortnite Battle Royale Will be coming to an finish May 24, 2018. Save the world will nonetheless be in improvement and we’ll roll out ASAP. Thank you all for the assist.”

Obviously, that is rife with spelling and grammatical errors, a lawsuit must be towards Epic slightly than PUBG to trigger them to take their recreation down, and even a cursory look at the real Fortnite Twitter account reveals no signal of such a tweet having been despatched. Indeed, it is tweeting about forthcoming updates, so clearly Epic haven’t any plans to take the sport down.

The earliest picture of the offending tweet that we have been capable of finding is here on Snopes.com, and is dated April 10. That’s just a few days after PUBG Corp actually did file swimsuit towards two “considerably comparable” cell battle royale video games, and simply two days earlier than Fortnite’s servers went down for sudden “emergency upkeep,” so maybe that explains the traction that this apparent hoax gained.

But no, Fortnite Battle Royale is not going wherever quickly.