Everything You Need to Know About the New Star Wars Content in Fortnite

Star Wars Day is astir here, and to people the May 4th celebration, Fortnite, Disney and Lucasfilm are teaming up to bring marque caller Star Wars games and rewards to Epic's conflict royale behemoth. IGN went down the scenes to find retired much astir what to expect from the stellar collaboration.

The Games

Three caller Fortnite islands person been created offering precise antithetic Star Wars experiences. Back successful March, Epic announced it was giving each Fortnite creators entree to peculiar Star Wars assets, and these are conscionable immoderate of the results.

“After years of creating Star Wars experiences with Disney and Lucasfilm, we gave Star Wars’ heroes, worlds and assets to Fortnite creators truthful they could physique the experiences they’ve ever dreamed of playing," said Adam Sussman, President of Epic Games. "It’s present imaginable to make a limitless assortment of games successful the Star Wars beingness that anyone successful Fortnite tin play.”

Star Wars: Galactic Siege by JOGO Studios is a AAA instrumentality connected a Star Wars seizure the emblem game, with 10v10 PvP class-based battles crossed the Star Wars galaxy. There's an other dainty connected the mode too, aft the merchandise of The Mandalorian & Grogu a caller representation volition beryllium added to the game.

Star Wars: Droid Tycoon gives players the accidental to physique droids utilizing existent Star Wars blueprints, with much than 40 in-game droids to construct. The crippled was created by “FOAD” (Fear of a Dawn).

Escape Vader is simply a 4-player co-op crippled wherever you... well, you tin guess. Set connected a wrecked Star Destroyer you'll request to enactment with your squad arsenic you're hunted by the deadly daddy. It was created by Beyond Creative.

The LucasFilm Interview

IGN spoke to James Waugh, Senior Vice President of Franchise Story and Creative Strategy astatine Lucasfilm astir the collaboration, and conscionable however this caller acquisition fits into the wide Star Wars canon.

Star Wars: The Mandalorian & Grogu Sneak Peek

Head to the caller Mandalorian and Grogu Watch Party Island connected May 19 to spot a caller 10 infinitesimal country from the upcoming up of the movie's merchandise connected May 22. On May 26, the movie's manager Jon Favreau volition look connected the land for a Q&A astir The Mandalorian & Grogu.

What's Coming Next:

“Interactive amusement is rapidly becoming 1 of the defining forces successful however audiences acquisition stories, and Disney is afloat embracing that evolution. Games connection a uniquely almighty mode to deepen engagement, grow our worlds, and link with fans successful existent time," said Sean Shoptaw, Executive VP of Disney Games and Digital Entertainment. "As this abstraction continues to grow, we spot bonzer imaginable to elevate Disney storytelling successful ways that are innovative, social, and built for the mode radical play today."

Rachel Weber is the Head of Editorial Development astatine IGN and an elder millennial. She's been a nonrecreational nerd since 2006 erstwhile she got her commencement connected Official PlayStation Magazine successful the UK, and has since worked for GamesIndustry.Biz, Rolling Stone and GamesRadar. She loves horror, fearfulness movies, fearfulness games, Red Dead Redemption 2, and her Love and Deepspace boyfriends.