The Weeknd x Fortnite Festival Trailer Courtesy Photo
The Weeknd stars in a brand new trailer for Festival, a game from Rock Band studio Harmonix wherein the singer — who now goes by his delivery title, Abel Tesfaye — is the headliner in a music-experience slated to launch inside Fortnite on Saturday (Dec. 9).
Like Harmonix’s most beloved games, Festival lets followers faucet notes alongside to the music taking part in within the game as they watch the Weeknd rock the stage, with customers capable of both jam with the band or take a solo.
The 44-second trailer opens with the sound of thumping dance membership bass swirling round a hooded determine who reaches out his hand into the sunshine, which transports him to an precise membership. The mysterious determine — carrying a shiny Dr. Doom-style steel masks — slowly makes his technique to the stage as a punk-haired viewers member tosses a microphone into the air. The high-energy clip ends with the digital picture of Tesfaye, who wears totally different skins whereas dancing on stage to his Dawn FM music “Take My Breath,” as he’s backed by a futuristic band.
According to Hypebeast, leaks of the game promise that The Weeknd x Fortnite Festival will function a brand new microphone design, two new bass designs, three songs, a keytar design and a Weeknd pores and skin out there by means of a Festival Pass.
The Weeknd is the most recent artist to staff up with Fortnite for a music occasion, following on the heels of digital live shows by the likes of Eminem, Ariana Grande, Travis Scott, Marshmello and Kid Cudi. In April, Coachella additionally teamed up with Fortnite for a game referred to as Coachella Island, which featured a digital world contained in the Fortnite universe with mini-games, Coachella-themed merch, artwork installations and digital variations of a few of the beloved competition’s iconic ferris wheel and trippy Spectra constructing.
Fortnite Festival is the primary particularly music-focused mode within the game that has been downloaded greater than 129 million instances on the App Store and Google Play.
Check out the Weekend x Fortnite Festival trailer beneath.
