The Weeknd announces headline performance at new Fortnite music event ‘The Weeknd x Fortnite Festival’: Check out the trailer
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The Weeknd celebrities in a brand-new trailer for Festival, a game from Rock Band workshop Harmonix in which the vocalist — that currently passes his birth name, Abel Tesfaye — is the headliner in a music-experience slated to release inside Fortnite on Saturday (Dec. 9).
Like Harmonix’s most precious games, Festival allows followers touch notes along to the track having fun in the game as they see the Weeknd rock the phase, with customers able to either jam with the band or take a solo.
The 44-second trailer opens up with the audio of thumping dancing club bass swirling around a hooded number that connects his hand right into the light, which delivers him to a real club. The mystical number — using a glossy Dr. Doom-design steel mask — gradually makes his method to the phase as a punk-haired target market participant throws a microphone right into the air. The high-energy clip finishes with the electronic picture of Tesfaye, that uses various skins while dancing on phase to his Dawn FM track “Take My Breath,” as he’s backed by an advanced band.
According to Hypebeast, leakages of the game guarantee that The Weeknd x Fortnite Festival will certainly include a brand-new microphone layout, 2 brand-new bass styles, 3 tunes, a keytar layout and a Weeknd skin offered via a Festival Pass.
The Weeknd is the most recent musician to join Fortnite for a songs occasion, complying with on the heels of digital shows by the similarity Eminem, Ariana Grande, Travis Scott, Marshmello and Kid Cudi. In April, Coachella additionally partnered with Fortnite for a game called Coachella Island, which included a digital globe inside the Fortnite cosmos with mini-games, Coachella-themed merch, art installments and digital variations of a few of the precious event’s renowned ferris wheel and trippy Spectra structure.
Fortnite Festival is the very first especially music-focused setting in the game that has actually been downloaded and install greater than 129 million times on the App Store and Google Play.
Check out the Weekend x Fortnite Festival trailer listed below.

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